Day 1

April 14, 2000

Time

Schedule

4:00 PM

CHECK-IN & RECEPTION

6:30 PM

DINNER

8:15 PM

WELCOME & INTRODUCTION

Bob Goldberg - "A Vision Becomes Reality"

USE OF GENOMICS IN PLANT BIOLOGY - PART I

8:30 PM

Dick Flavell - "Genomics & Plant Improvement"

9:00 PM

Yuping Lu - "Full-Length cDNA Libraries: An Entry Point Into Genomics"

9:30 PM

BREAK

9:45 PM

Jon Donson - "Gene Expression: An Array of Possibilities"

10:15 PM

Richard Schneeberger - "Gene Function Using Reverse Genetics"

10:45 PM

DISCUSSION

Day 2

April 15, 2000

Time

Schedule

8:00 AM

BREAKFAST

USE OF GENOMICS IN PLANT BIOLOGY - PART II

9:00 AM

Nestor Apuya -"Gene Function Using the Two-Component System"

9:30 AM

Shing Kwok -"Gene Function Using T-DNA Mutagenesis"

10:00 AM

Ken Feldmann - "Dissecting the Brassinosteroid Pathway"

10:30 AM

BREAK

DEVELOPMENT OF THE FEMALE GAMETOPHYTE

10:45 AM

Gary Drews & Cory Christensen - "Development of the Angiosperm Female Gametophyte"

11:45 AM

DISCUSSION

NOON

LUNCH AND AFTERNOON FOR DISCUSSIONS/HIKING

4:00 PM

POSTERS AND RECEPTION

6:30 PM

DINNER

ENDOSPERM DEVELOPMENT

8:00 PM

Bob Fischer - "How Imprinted Polycomb Genes Control Fertilization-Independent Endosperm and Endosperm Growth"

9:00 PM

EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT - PART I

Bob Goldberg, Koen Weterings, & Kathy McElroy - "Using Giant Beans & Genomics to Identify Genes Important For Early Embryo Development"

10:00 PM

BREAK AND DISCUSSION

Day 3

April 16, 2000

Time

Schedule

8:00 AM

BREAKFAST

EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT - PART II

9:00 AM

John Harada & Raymond Kwong - Control & Coordination of Embryo Development by LEC1 & LEC1-Like Genes"

SEED DEVELOPMENT AND APOMIXIS

10:00 AM

Jack Okamuro (UC Santa Cruz) - "Screening for New Arabidopsis Size Control Genes"

10:30 AM

Jack Okamuro (Ceres) - "Achieving Apomixis in 2000"

11:00 AM

BREAK

IMPROVING SEED YIELD

11:15 AM

Diane Jofuku - "Strategies for Increasing the Size and Yield of Seeds"

SUMMARY & CONCLUSIONS

11:45 AM

Bob Goldberg & Dick Flavell - "What Have We Learned & Where Do We Go From Here?"

12:15 PM

LUNCH

1:00 PM

FAREWELL