Deep Gene at Botany 2002
Deep Gene Workshop at Botany
2002, Madison, WI, Thursday, August 8th, 2002
The dual goal of this all-day workshop is to introduce the large
contingent of graduate students attending to each other and to the
faculty, and then to address some cutting-edge intellectual issues
involving cross-overs between phylogenetic and genomic research.
We plan four main informal sessions that will be mostly discussion
with some brief presentations.
Tentative Agenda:
| 8:30 |
Gather in room for coffee and informal conversation |
| 8:45 |
Introduction to the day; logistics |
| 9:00 |
Once around the room for self-introductions and
brief statements of current research interests (3 informal minutes
per person, please ) |
| 10:30 |
Coffee break |
| 10:45 |
Choosing new genomic model systems in light of
phylogeny. What new genomic and phylogentic tools can be brought
to bear? |
| 12:00 |
Lunch in room -- informal discussion |
| 1:00 |
Gene Ontology: how should genes be named? How can they be
compared
between genomes? Homology versus function.
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| 2:30 |
Wrap-up discussion. Where should we go from here? |
| 3:00 |
Break; afternoon coffee, coke, snacks |
| 3:30 |
Meet with Deep Time RCN group in joint session, consider
such
joint scientific & logistic issues as:
- how can fossil and morphological data be integrated with
molecular
data in "total evidence" phylogenetic analyses?
- how can fossils be used to calibrate molecular clocks?
- how can paleobotanical data inform our understanding
of function in
extant plants?
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| 5:00 |
End Discussions |
| 7:00 |
Informal dinner with Deep Time (location
TBA) |
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