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12th Annual Symposium in Plant Biology

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2014

Evolution of Plant Form and Function: Insights from the Integration of Development, Ecology and Genetics

 

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Registration is now closed for this year's Plant Biology Graduate Program annual symposium "Evolution of Plant Form and Function: Insights from the Integration of Development, Ecology and Genetics". You are welcome to join us informally for the talks in the ISB. Programs will be available at the registration table. You may be able to join us for lunch - please ask during the morning break about possible seating.

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE:
8:30 AM
Registration- Integrated Sciences Building (ISB) atrium
9:00 AM Welcome - ISB auditorium
Elsbeth L. Walker, Director, PB Graduate Program
9:05 AM LENA HILEMAN
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Kansas
"Investigating genetic mechanisms underlying repeated patterns of floral evolution"
9:55 AM Morning break, refreshments- ISB atrium. Enter Sinauer Associates book raffle.
10:10 AM CLINTON WHIPPLE
Department of Biology
Brigham Young University
"Bract suppression in the grasses: evolution of a novel developmental regulatory network" 
11:00 AM BEN BLACKMAN
Department of Biology
University of Virginia
"Bridging genes to the environment in the evolution of developmental plasticity"
11:50 AM Poster set-up and lunch seating. Campus Center- 10th floor.
12:00 -1:50 PM Lunch and poster preview session. Campus Center-10th flr.
2:00 PM Welcome to afternoon session- ISB auditorium
2:10 PM STACEY SMITH
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Colorado Boulder
"Evolutionary mechanisms of convergent flower color transitions"
3:00 PM PETER LINDER
Institute of Systematic Botany
University of Zurich, Switzerland
"Morphologies, phylogenies, and radiations: when is the evolution of a new morphology successful?"
3:50 PM Drawing for Sinauer Associates book raffle, ISB atrium.

4:00 to 6:00 PM

Poster session and reception, Campus Center, 10th floor.

For more information or questions, send an email to: pb@bio.umass.edu
Symposium coordinators - Madelaine Bartlett, UMass Amherst and Jill Preston, University of Vermont.

For information on our past symposiums, click here.

 



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