Causes and consequences of floral developmental change:
Crossing the organismic and molecular divide in plant evolutionary developmental biology.

MORPH-supported travel grants are available ($500 each) for graduate students at U.S. universities to attend this symposium.

Co-organizers

Pamela Diggle and Susan Kalisz

Location

XVII International Botanical Congress (conference website)
Austria Center Vienna, Austria; July 17-23, 2005
Symposia: TBA
Discussion sections: TBA

Description

Complementary advances in development, molecular genetics and evolution have set the stage for novel cross-disciplinary investigations of the evolutionary-developmental implications of flower form and function relationships. The goals of this symposium are three fold: 1) to understand the molecular genetic causes and evolutionary consequences of floral development with respect to observed patterns of resource allocation, mating system flexibility, reproductive isolation, and pollination syndromes, 2) to facilitate the application of molecular and genomic advances from model plant systems to wild plant species as well as providing the reciprocal insights from research on wild plant to molecular developmental biologists and 3) to identify emergent and productive areas for future collaborative investigations which will expand our ability to understand and integrate the processes of development and evolution.

Speakers

Keynote

Vivian Irish, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States. Comparative genomics of angiosperm MADS box genes. abstract

Causes - Molecular Genetic

Jeroen Stuurman, M. Hoballah, J. Moore, C. Kuhlemeier; Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. Genetics of reproductive barriers in Petunia. abstract

Nicolas Langlade, X. Feng, A. Hudson, E. Coen; John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom, and University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Genetic basis of shape differences in Antirrhinum species. abstract

A. Becker, D. R. Smyth; Bremen University, Bremen, Germany, and School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia. Evolutionary genetics of carpels: using California poppy (Eschscholzia californica Cham.) as a basal eudicot model system. abstract

Consequences - Evolutionary Developmental

Susan Kalisz, The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States. Developmental and molecular genetics of traits affecting mating system: self pollination, floral symmetry, and protandry. abstract

Pamela Diggle, and Jill S. Miller; University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, and Amherst College, Amherst, MA, United States. "Great and curious blunder in dame nature" (C. Darwin 1860): an evo-devo analysis of the origin and diversification of andromonoecy. abstract

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