9:00-10:20 AM Registration, West Atrium 10:20-10:30 AM Patrick Herendeen, Chicago Botanic Garden Introductory remarks 10:30-11:15 AM Felix Grewe, The Field Museum Mitochondrial genome evolution: trends towards extreme complexity in the plant lineage 11:15-12:00 AM Fay-Wei Li, Cornell University The ferntastic genomes reveal unique evolution of ferns and cyanobacterial symbiosis 12:00-1:15 PM Lunch, West Atrium 1:15-2:00 PM Quentin Cronk, University of British Columbia Tracking labile sex determining regions of plants using genomics and methylomics 2:00-2:45 PM Alison Dawn Scott, University of Wisconsin Polyploid evolution in Sequoioideae: The dawn of redwood phylogenomics 2:45-3:30 PM Matt Johnson, Chicago Botanic Garden Building a better tree and using it wisely: phylogenomic approaches in non-model organisms 3:30-4:00 PM Coffee Break, West Atrium 4:00-4:45 PM Emily Sessa, University of Florida Taming Darwin’s incubus: Phylogenetics and floral symmetry evolution of the Core Goodeniaceae 4:45-5:30 PM Debashish Bhattacharya, Rutgers University Greening of our planet: the long and short story of plastid endosymbiosis 5:30-7:00 PM Mixer, West Atrium |