Umeň Plant Science Center invites you to a

Populus Functional Genomics Workshop

Umeň Friday August 30

(in connection with the 3rd International Poplar Symposium, held in Uppsala. August 26-29.)

We will arrange this meeting both to put the highlight on the project to sequence the Populus genome, but also to show the facilities that we have in Umeň related to Populus Functional Genomics. If you have any questions contact

Program:

9.00 Gerald Tuskan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Sequencing of the Populus Genome

10.00 Coffee break

10.30 Chung-Jui Tsai, Michigan Technological University: Populus Functional Genomics in Michigan

11.00 Populus Functional Genomics in Oregon

11.20 G÷ran Sandberg, UPSC: The Populus Functional Genomics Program in Umeň: An overview

11.40 Lunch

13.00 Stefan Jansson, UPSC: EST sequencing, Bioinformatics and PopulusDB

13.20 Peter Nilsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm: The Populus Microarrays

13.40 Thomas Moritz, UPSC: Populus Metabolomics

14.00 Gunnar Wingsle, UPSC: Populus Proteomics 1: Protein separation

14.20 Coffe break

14.50 Fredrik Sterky, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm: Populus Proteomics 2: Large-scale antibody production

15.30 Rishi Bhalerao, UPSC: The Swetree Genomics Knock-Out Program

15.50 Bj÷rn Sundberg, UPSC: High throughput phenotypical characterization

16.10 Discussion: What should we do to further develop Populus as a model system

The workshop will be held in lecture hall KB3B1 on the ground floor in the KBC building on the University Campus (denoted KB on the map found here)

If you have any questions, contact

Attendence to the workshop is free!

Accomodation
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Timetables from Uppsala to Umeň 29/8 (may be subject to changes)
SAS (Service from Arlanda, bigger Airport closer to Uppsala)

Flight Departure time

SK 12:50
SK034 14:40
SK 17:10
SK036 18:20
SK 20:20
SK 21:10
SK 21:50
SK026 22:50

Malm÷ Aviation (Service from Bromma, smaller Airport, near Stockholm)

Flight Departure time

BU876 17:15
BU880 18:20
BU888 21:30