Preliminary Program

-Saturday, July 7
-Sunday, July 8
-Monday, July 9



Monday, July 9

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
(Frangipani)
Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
(Frangipani)
Contributed Talks - (Chair) Kelley Thomas
Section 4: Gene diversity and function in biological processes
9:00 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.
Andrew Schurko (Univ. of Iowa)
Phylogenomic Inventory of Meiotic Genes in Daphnia
9:20 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.
Carolina Penalva-Arana (Univ. of Wisconsin)
Chemoreception in Daphnia: from Ecological Observations to Genes
9:40 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Susanne Thomson (North Carolina State Univ.)
Nuclear Receptor Superfamily Genes of Daphnia pulex
10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Discussion and summary of this section
10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
(Frangipani)
Refreshments
10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
(Frangipani)
Contributed Talks - (Chair) Joseph Shaw
Section 5: Toxicological genomics
10:30 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
Helen Poynton (Univ. of California Berkeley)
Mining for Genomic Biomarkers of Metal Exposure in Daphnia magna
10:50 a.m. - 11:10 a.m.
TBA
11:10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Joseph Shaw (Dartmouth College)
Towards a Genomic Understanding of Acclimation and Adaptation to Environmental Toxicants
11:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Discussion and summary of this section
11:45 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Lunch, on your own
2:00 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
(Frangipani)
Manual annotation meetings for each Section
Details forthcoming
3:20 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
(Frangipani)
Refreshments
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
(Frangipani)
Panel Discussion
The Daphnia magna genome sequencing project
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
(Frangipani)
Closing Remarks - Michael Pfrender (Utah State Univ.)
5:30 p.m. - ??
(Location TBD)
Dinner meeting of the Steering Committee