an invitation to a:
Deep Gene RCN Workshop
This workshop is open to all interested people, but only by reservation.
Please contact Brent Mishler bmishler@socrates.berkeley.edu to be
included.
The BSA past-president's plenary symposium, organized by Doug Soltis,
to be held Monday morning August 13th on: "Functional
and comparative genomics: Evolutionary implications" will
be a fine public outreach for these ideas. In addition, we will
have a smaller-group discussion/ workshop all day Thursday, August
16th for our RCN group designed to introduce and educate systematists
and evolutionary biologists about the tools and data from genomics.
We also will have a joint session with the Deep Time RCN group to
begin to include paleobotanists in these areas.
Tentative Agenda:
| 8:00 |
Gather in room for coffee and informal conversation |
| 8:30 |
Introduction to the day; logistics |
| 8:45 |
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 |
Background on Deep Green and the Deep Gene RCN
program;mention of Deep Time |
| 11:00 |
Practical goals of the project for this year;
activities,workshops, fellowships, web site, K-12 training,
internationalization efforts, etc. General discussion |
| 12:00 |
Lunch in room -- informal discussion |
| 1:00 |
Scientific goals of the project; break into four smaller
groups to separately consider the following general questions:
- what are the most promising sources of evidence from genomics
for phylogenetics?
- what are the most promising uses of phylogenies in studies
of functional genomics/development /physiology/biochemistry
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| 2:30 |
Get back together as a whole to share answers;
final
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?
- how can these two RCNs work together to further joint
goals?
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| 5:00 |
End Discussions |
| 7:00 |
Informal dinner with Deep Time (location
TBA) |
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