The Symposium will begin on Friday, November 4th, at 7:00 p.m. and conclude on Sunday, November 6th, at noon.  

Poster sessions are planned for Friday evening 8:30 to 10:30 and again on Saturday from 4:00 to 6:00 pm.   A tentative schedule follows.  

Please contact us by e-mail at ecogen@ksu.edu or by telephone, 785-532-3482, if we may be of assistance in answering your questions.

Genes in Ecology, Ecology in Genes

The Radisson Hotel, Lenexa-Overland Park, Kansas

Tentative Schedule

Friday, November 4, 2005

5:30 pm-7:00 pm     Registration, Poster Set-up

7:00 pm-7:10            Introductions and Welcome Remarks

7:10-7:50                   Trudy F. C. Mackay, North Carolina State University, “The genetic architecture of complex traits:  Lessons from Drosophila”

7:50-8:30 pm           Edward F. DeLong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Exploring the natural microbial world, from genomes to biomes”

8:30-10:30 pm         Reception and Poster Session

Saturday, November 5, 2005

8:00-9:00                   Registration, Breakfast Buffet

9:00–9:40                  Charles W. Whitfield, University of Illinois, ”Genomic dissection of naturally occurring behavioral maturation in the honey bee”

9:40-10:00                Kansas Ecological Genomics Research Presentation, Karen Garrett, Kansas State University, "Applying microarrays in ecological field experiments"

10:00-10:30              Coffee Break

10:30–11:10             Jan Kammenga, Wageningen University, “Genomical approaches for understanding life-history adaptation to temperature in natural populations of C. elegans”

11:10-11:50              Thomas Mitchell-Olds, Max-Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology, “Comparative evolutionary and ecological genomics of Arabidopsis relatives”

11:50-12:00             Announcements

12:00-1:30                Lunch

1:30-1:50                   Kansas Ecological Genomics Research Presentation, John Kelly, University of Kansas, "Estimation of microsatellite mutation rates in Arabidopsis thaliana"

1:50-2:30                   Toby Bradshaw, University of Washington, “The genetic basis of adaptive evolution in natural plant populations”

2:30–3:00                  Afternoon Break

3:00–3:40                  Jack C. Schultz, Penn State University, “Whole-genome microarray analysis reveals species-specific responses by Arabidopsis to insect herbivores”

3:40-4:00                   Poster Abstract Invited Presentation, Gregory Velicer, Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, "Comprehensive mutation identification in an experimentally evolved bacterium"

4:00-4:20                   Poster Abstract Invited Presentation, Joop Ouborg, Radboud University, "Molecular Ecology of Reproductive Allocation:  an ecogenomic approach"

4:30–6:00                  Poster Session & Beverages

6:00-6:20                   Poster removal

6:45                            Optional Banquet:  Participants attending the Saturday night banquet will meet in the lobby and board motor coach to go to the Country Club Plaza for 7:30 dinner at the Brio Tuscan Grille.  Participants will have some time following dinner to explore the Plaza.  One bus will depart the Plaza at 10:00; a second bus will depart the Plaza at 11:30. 

Sunday, November 6, 2005

8:30–9:00                  Continental Breakfast

9:00-9:40                  John Kenneth Colbourne, Indiana University, “Finding genes linked to the ecological success of Daphnia”

9:40-10:20                Johanna Schmitt, Brown University, “Adaptive evolution of seasonal timing in Arabidopsis thaliana”

10:20–10:45             Coffee Break

10:45-11:05              Poster Abstract Invited Presentation, Scott Woolbright, Northern Arizona University, "QTL Mapping of Ecologically Significant Traits in Populus:  A First Step Toward Genotyping Extended Phenotypes"

11:05-11:45              Martin E. Feder, The University of Chicago, ”Transposition and heat-shock genes: a genomic scan for evolvability of transcription”

11:45-12:00              Closing Remarks