14th December 2006, Imperial College
Registration closes on the 2nd of December.
| Coffee and Registration: 9:45 - 10:15 |
| 10:15 |
Welcome |
G Bishop (Imperial) and G.Seymour (Nottingham) |
| 10:20 |
Plastid transformation in tomato, potato and tobacco |
Prof. John Gray (Cambridge) |
| 10:50 |
Mutants as tools to dissect the genetic mechanisms regulating fruit ripening in tomato |
Cornelius Barry (Cornell) |
| 11:10 |
Short RNAs in tomato fruit |
Tamas Dalmay (UEA) |
| 11:30 |
Strategies to characterize the tomato cell wall proteome |
Jocelyn Rose (Cornell) |
| 11:50 |
Tissue-specific manipulation of abscisic acid in tomato and tobacco |
Matthew Jones (Warwick) |
| 12:05 |
A collection of tomato mutants (cv Micro-Tom) useful to study the multiple hormonal control of plant development" |
Lazaro Peres (Lancaster- São Paulo - USP) |
| Lunch: 12:20 - 1:30 |
| 13:40 |
From abancayense to zykinii: why 75% of Solanum names are redundant |
Jonathan Bennett (NHM) |
| 14:00 |
Identification, mapping and cloning of late blight resistance genes in wild Solanums |
Simon Foster (SL-JIC) |
| 14:20 |
Manipulation of isoprenoid metabolism in potato tubers |
Wayne Morris (SCRI) |
| 14:40 |
British Potato Council and the UK Potato Industry |
Sue Cowgill (BPC) |
| 15:00 |
Tomato Growers Association and the UK Tomato Industry |
Gerry Hayman (TGA) |
| 15:20 |
Tomato Genome Sequencing progress |
Helen Beasley & Christine Nicholson (WTSI) |
| 15:50 |
Tomato chromosome 4 Annotation; Current Progress |
Daniel Buchan (Imperial) And Remy Bruggmann (MIPS) |
| 16:20 |
A Tomato Stock Centre at NASC? |
Sean May(NASC) |
| Discussion and concluding remarks: 16:30 |
| Finish: 16:45 |
