| 8:30
8:35 |
Welcome
Remarks:
Drs. Michael Herman, Loretta Johnson and Bob Cohen |
| 8:35
8:45 |
Introduction
to KS NSF EPSCoR:
Dr. Thomas N. Taylor Phase IV funding, Goals and objectives of the
EPSCoR program |
| 8:45
9:00 |
Ecological
Genomics Research Initiative:
Drs. Loretta Johnson, Michael Herman and Bob Cohen Vision and
goals, expectations, education and training. |
| 9:00
9:20 |
Drs.
Jyoti Shah and Loretta Johnson:
Regulation of Root
Processes and Gene
Expression in Natural Ecosystems |
| 9:20
9:40 |
Drs.
Michael Herman, Tim Todd and John Blair: Genetic
Basis for Changes in
Nematode Species Composition in
Response to Environmental
Change |
| 9:40
10:00 |
Drs.
Walter Dodds, David Graham and Mark
Schneegurt: Water
Quality and Nitrogen Loading in Streams:
A Molecular Approach |
| 10:00
10:20 |
Drs.
Judy Roe, Steve Welch, William Hsu and Sanjoy
Das: Modeling
of Temperature Influence on Plant
Development: A Genetic
Network Control Approach |
| 10:20
10:50 |
Coffee
Break |
| 10:50
11:10 |
Dr.
Robert Cohen: Rab 11 and the Control of What Goes In
and Out of Fly Eggs |
| 11:10
11:30 |
Dr.
Jennifer Gleason: Evolutionary
Genomics of Behavioral
Isolation in Drosophila |
| 11:30
11:50 |
Drs.
Mark Mort and Dan Crawford: Analysis
of ploidy in
natural populations of
Anropogon gerardii: implications for
genome evolution and gene
expression. |
| 11:50
12:10 |
Drs.
Melinda Smith, Alan Knapp, and Anthony
Swemmer: Linking
Ecological and Genetic Responses of
Grassland Plant Communities
to Environmental Change |
| 12:10
12:30 |
Dr.
Erik Lundquist: Genetic Buffering and the Role of
Non-Essential Genes |
| 12:30
1:30 |
Lunch |
| 1:30
1:50 |
Dr.
Lisa Timmons:
Environmental Influences on RNAi
in
Caenorhabditis elegans |
| 1:50
2:10 |
Dr.
Matthew Buechner: Genes
Affecting the Osmotic
Response Organ in
C. elegans |
| 2:10
2:30 |
Drs.
David Margolies and Yoonseong Park: Using
Molecular Markers to Examine
Behavioral Genetics of a
Predator-Prey Interaction |
| 2:30
2:50 |
Drs.
Michael Smith and Elena Boyko: A
Functional
Genomic Approach to Identify
Temperature Response Genes
Modulating Plant Defense
Responses to Arthropod Challenge |
| 2:50
3:10 |
Drs.
Karen Garrett , Scot Hulbert and Jan Leach: Gene
expression in natural
populations of Andropogon gerardii in
response to three
environmental stressors |
| 3:10
4:00 |
Next
steps, future plans, discussion. |
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