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Fourth Annual Meeting of the Solanaceae Research Community in the UK

19th December 2008, Imperial College, Room G34 Sir Alexander Fleming Building


Registration: 9:30 - 10:00
10:00 Welcome Gerard Bishop, Graham Seymour and Glenn Bryan
10:05 Current Sequencing Progress for Tomato Chromosome 4 Gerard Bishop (UK)
10:35 Current status of Tomato Genome Annotation and Web Resources Klaus Mayer (Germany)
Coffee Break: 11:05 - 11:30
11:30 EU-SOL Project and Current Status of Tomato Chromosome 6 Sequencing Rene Klein Lankhorst (Netherlands)
12:00 Progress in Sequencing Tomato Chromosome 8 and J-SOL Sequencing Shusei Sato (Japan)
Lunch: 12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Potato Genome Sequencing Efforts Glenn Bryan (UK)
14:30 The Scientific Case for Transgenic Potatoes with Nematode Resistance Jayne Green (UK)
Coffee Break: 15:00 - 15:30
15:30 Metabolomic Approaches to the Identification of Metabolite QTLs in Tomato Tom Wells (UK)
16:00 Identification and Characterisation of Tomato Fruit Quality QTLs Mathilde Causse (France)
Discussion and Concluding Remarks: 16:30
Finish: 16:40