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GARNet Town meeting

Thursday 26 January
    
12:00–13:00 Registration and lunch
    
13:00 Welcome & introductions, Holly Slater and Alistair Hetherington
    
Chair: Andrew Millar
    
13:00–13:40 David Fell, Oxford Brooks University, UK
Perspectives on genomic scale metabolic networks
    
13:40–14:20 Lee Sweetlove, University of Oxford, UK
Getting to grips with the metabolic network
    
14:20–15:00 Claire Grierson, University of Bristol, UK
Towards the molecular network that underlies polarised growth
    
15:00–15:30 Refreshment break
     
15:30–16:10 Nick Monk, University of Sheffield, UK
Using mathematical models as tools to probe biological networks
    
16:10–16:50 Andrew Millar, University of Edinburgh
Modelling and analysis of the clock gene network
    
16:50–17:30 John Turner, University of East Anglia, UK
Stress signals
   
17:30–18:30 Reception (drinks and canapes)
    
Friday 27 January
    
Chair: Claire Grierson
    
09:30–10:10 Hamid Bolouri, Seattle, WA, USA
A computational tool set for modelling developmental genetic regulatory networks
 
10:10–10:50 Juliette Colinas , Duke University, NC, USA
Studying transcription factor networks in root development: a genomicsapproach
 
10:50–11:20 Refreshment break
   
11:20–12:00 Ian Woodward, University of Sheffield
Stomatal networks: from leaf to globe
    
12:00–12:40 Jane Memmott, University of Bristol, UK
Plants as members of ecological communities: their links with the real world
    
12:40–13:20 Andrew Bangham, University of East Anglia, UK
Measuring and modelling shape
    
13:20–13:30 Concluding remarks, Ian Woodward
   
13:30–14:15 Lunch & depart
   
Post Symposium activity
14:30–16:30 Town meeting on the future of plant systems biology
 
16:30-17:00 Afternoon tea and depart
 

 

Illustrations:
Symposium logo, Networks in plant biology by Sam Day. Arabidopsis root tip with developing root hairs photographed under polarised light, courtesy of Claire Grierson. Spider’s web, courtesy of Sandy Hetherington. GUS expression in poplar, courtesy of Victor Busov. Stomata in the lower epidermis of Amaranthus powellii plants, courtesy of François Tardif. Tree-structured statistical modelling, courtesy of Jean-Baptiste Durand. Anastomoses between networks originating from Allium porrum and Daucus carota, courtesy of Manuela Giovannetti.

Last updated October 21, 2005