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Five of the six sessions will be in Marriott. The evolution of plant reproduction session which will be in Desert museum.

10 minute talks are poster abstracts selected for oral presentations. Poster talk presenters, please plan to present a poster in addition to your oral presentation.

Friday, 17 October 2008, 9-12 pm
Pollen development and tube growth session (Chair: Zhenbiao Yang)
Duration	Start Time	Speaker
10 min	9:00 AM	Dazhong Zhao, U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
15 min	9:10 AM	ASN Reddy, Colorado State University
15 min	9:25 AM	John Fowler, Oregon State University
15 min	9:40 AM	Anja Geitmann, U of Montreal, Canada
15 min	9:55 AM	Alice Cheung, U of Mass, Amherst
25 min	10:10 AM	Coffee break
15 min	10:35 AM	Peter Hepler, U of Massachusetts, Amherst
10 min	10:50 AM	Guang-Yuh Jauh, IPMB, Taiwan
15 min	11:00 AM	Heven Sze, University of Maryland
15 min	11:15 AM	Yan Zhang, PGEC/UC Berkeley
15 min	11:30 AM	Zhenbiao Yang, UC Riverside

 

Friday, 17 October 2008, 2-5 pm
Female Gametophyte Session (Chair: Gary Drews)
Duration	Start Time	Speaker
15 min	2:00 PM	Chuck Gasser, UC Davis
15 min	2:15 PM	Kay Schnietz, Tech U of Munich, Germany
15 min	2:30 PM	Lucia Colombo, U of Milan, Italy
15 min	2:45 PM	Matt Evans, Stanford University
15 min	3:00 PM	Venkatesan Sundaresan, UC Davis
10 min	3:15 PM	Dongfang Wang, U of Arizona
25 min	3:25 PM	Coffee break
15 min	3:50 PM	Anna Koltunow, CSIRO, Australia
15 min	4:05 PM	Rita Groß-Hardt, U of Tubingen, Germany
15 min	4:20 PM	Stefanie Sprunck,  U of Regensburg, Germany
15 min	4:35 PM	Arp Schnittger, IBMP, CNRS, France*
10 min	4:50 PM	Yuki Hamamura, Nagoya University, Japan

*, EMBO Young Investigator Lecture

Friday, 17 October 2008, 7-10 pm
Endosperm and Imprinting Session (Chair: Ramin Yadegari)
Duration	Start Time	Speaker
15 min	7:00 PM	Gary Drews, U of Utah
15 min	7:15 PM	Hugh Dickinson, U of Oxford, UK
15 min	7:30 PM	Paolo sabelli, U of Arizona
15 min	7:45 PM	Frédéric  Berger, TLSL, Singapore
15 min	8:00 PM	Rod Scott, U of Bath, UK
10 min	8:15 PM	Mary Gehring, FHCRC, Seattle
25 min	8:25 PM	Coffee break
15 min	8:50 PM	Ueli  Grossniklaus, U of Zurich, Switzerland
15 min	9:05 PM	Paul Grini, U of Oslo, Norway
15 min	9:20 PM	Matthew Bauer, UC Berkeley
15 min	9:35 PM	Claudia Köhler, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland*
10 min	9:50 PM	Tetsu Kinoshita, NIST, Ikoma, Japan

*, EMBO Young Investigator Lecture

Saturday, 18 October 2008, 9-12 pm
Compatible and Incompatible pollinations session (Chair: Alice Cheung)
Duration	Start Time	Speaker
15 min	9:00 AM	Betty Lord, UC Riverside
15 min	9:15 AM	Mark Johnson, Brown University
15 min	9:30 AM	Patricia Bedinger, Colorado State University
15 min	9:45 AM	Tetsuya Higashiyama, U Tokyo, Japan
10 min	10:00 AM	Rob Swanson, Valparaiso University
30 min	10:10 AM	Coffee break
15 min	10:40 AM	Teh-Hui Kao, Penn State University
15 min	10:55 AM	Hidenori  Sassa, Yokohama U, Japan
10 min	11:05 AM	Daiki Matsumoto, Kyoto University
10 min	11:15 AM	Jerry Kermicle, U of Wisconsin
15 min	11:30 AM	Bruce McClure, U of Missouri
15 min	11:45 AM	Noni Franklin-Tong, U of Birmingham, UK

 

Sat, 18 October 2008, 4:15-7 pm(Desert Muesem)
Evolution of reproductive development (Chair: Ned Friedman)
Duration	Start Time	Speaker
15 min	4:15 PM	Spencer Barrett, U of Toronto
15 min	4:30 PM	Kathleen Kay , UC Santa Cruz
15 min	4:45 PM	Jeffery Conner, Michigan State University
15 min	5:00 PM	Pamela Diggle, U of Colorado
25 min	5:15 PM	Coffee break
10 min	5:40 PM	Chiara Airoldi, U of Leeds, UK
15 min	5:50 PM	Joe Williams, U of Tennessee
15 min	6:05 PM	Ned Friedman, U Colorado
10 min	6:15 PM	Elvira horandl, U of Vienna, Austria
15 min	6:30 PM	Josh Kohn, UC San Diego
15 min	6:45 PM	Simon Hiscock, U of Bristol, UK

 

Sunday, 19 October 2008, 8:30-11:30 am
Novel systems and emerging technologies (Chair: Jose Feijo)
Duration	Start Time	Speaker
15 min	8:30 AM	Jeff Harper, U of Nevada, Reno
15 min	8:45 AM	Aurelien Boisson –Dernier, UC San Diego
15 min	9:00 AM	Glenn Hicks, UC Riverside
10 min	9:15 AM	Shannon Stewman, U of Chicago
15 min	9::25 AM	Daniel Philippe Matton, U Montreal, Canada
15 min	9:40 AM	Jose Feijo, U of Lisbon,  Portugal
20 min	9:55 AM	Coffee break
15 min	10:15 AM	Scott Russell, U of Oklahoma
15 min	10:30 AM	Steve Wolniak, U of Maryland
10 min	10:45 AM	Clay Carter, U of Minnesota
15 min	10:55 AM	Jörg  Becker, U of Lisbon, Portugal
15 min	11:10 AM	Keith Slotkin, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

 

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