14th December 2007, Imperial College, Room 34 Sir Alexander Flemming Building

This year we are please to welcome speakers from many countries, including the US and the netherlands. In keeping with previous years talks will be on a wide variety of subjects which will provide us with another fascinating and rewarding meeting.

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Registration: 9:30 - 10:00
10:00	Welcome	Gerard Bishop (Imperial College), Graham Seymour (University of Nottingham) and Glenn Bryan (SCRI)
10:05	Current Sequencing progress for Tomato Chromosome 4	WTSI
10:35	Current status of tomato genome annotation and web resources	Daniel Buchan (Imperial College)
Coffee Break: 11:05 - 11:30
11:30	Update of resources at SGN and worldwide tomato sequencing status	Lukas Mueller (Cornell USA)
12:00	Potato genomics/sequencing	Robin Buell (MSU, USA)
Lunch: 12:30 - 14:00
14:00	Evolution of Nicotiana polyploids	Andrew Leitch (QMC, UK)
14:30	Transposon insertion mutagenesis and gene function analysis in Petunia	Tom Gerats (NL)
Coffee Break: 15:00 - 15:30
15:30	Tomato-Cladosporium interaction	Colwyn Thomas (UEA, UK)
16:00	BAC FISH and repeat barcoding technologies for tomato and potato	Hans de Jong (WUR, NL)
Discussion and concluding remarks: 16:30
Finish: 16:40