[Pollinator] Smithsonian Botanical Symposium "Genes, Genomics, and Genome Evolution in Plants, " 28 March 2009, Washington DC

[Krupnick, Gary]

Smithsonian Botanical Symposium

"Genes, Genomics, and Genome Evolution in Plants"

 

27-28 March 2009

National Museum of Natural History

 

In collaboration with the United States Botanic Garden

Supported by the National Science Foundation and the Cuatrecasas Family
Foundation

 

Ever since Darwin, biologists have sought to understand how species
evolve. The complexity and flexibility of the plant genome, as first
revealed by Mendelian genetic methods, likely render plants especially
able to adapt to changing environments. The new tools of genomics,
initially driven by studies of model organisms, are now being applied
across the diversity of plant life. Comparative studies have addressed
the role of variation in genes, gene families and genomes in such
processes as speciation, domestication and floral development. This
Symposium, hosted by the Department of Botany, will highlight results of
current studies on plant genes and genomes, especially as they apply to
fundamental questions in evolutionary biology, crop improvement and
ecosystem sustenance in rapidly changing environments worldwide.

 

Information and registration at http://botany.si.edu/sbs/

Fax: 202-786-2563 - e-mail: sbs at si.edu

Registration is now open

 

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