Day 1: Registration

9:30 AM - registration opens (Garden Pavilion - UBC Botanical Garden, 6804 SW Marine Drive). Audio-visual check-in at the Botanical Garden Administration Building.

10:00 AM - Coffee served (Venue: Garden Pavilion)
Optional Tour 1 - Botanical Garden (Coordinators: David Tarrant, Judy Newton)
Tours are ca. 60 minutes, covering exhibition and botanical collections (maximum 20 delegates for each tour). Delegates are also welcome to explore the gardens in self-guided tours.

11:30 AM - Lunch starts

LUNCH: Snack lunch provided in Garden Pavilion

1:00 PM Travel to MacMillan Building, Room 166.

Day 1: Overviews (Venue: MacMillan Building, Room 166)

First Session (Chair: Quentin Cronk)
INTRODUCTORY

1:30 PM - Brief welcome from Dean Moura Quayle (Dean of Agricultural Sciences, UBC)

1:40 PM - Quentin Cronk (UBC)
Genomes in time and space: the new science of adaptation

2:10 PM - Michael Purugganan (keynote)
The molecular evolutionary genetics of Arabidopsis shoot architecture

Second Session (Chair: Quentin Cronk)
ADAPTATION TO THE EDAPHIC ENVIRONMENT

2:50 PM - Nishi Rajakaruna
Building a case for the parallel evolution of edaphic races in Lasthernia californica sensu lato (Asteraceae: Heliantheae)

3:10 PM - Suhua Shi
Molecular adaptation in mangroves: evidences from cpDNA, rbcL, mtDNA matR and nrDNA 18S genes

3:30 PM - Coffee and Tea

3:50 PM - Jeannette Whitton
Adaptation Underground: Incorporating edaphic influences in plant evolutionary studies

Third Session (Chair: Quentin Cronk)
ADAPTATION TO THE LIGHT CLIMATE

4:10 PM - Justin Borevitz
Molecular basis of Natural Variation: Arrays to the rescue

4:30 PM - Rebecca Montgomery and Thomas Givnish
Putting the "adaptive" into "adaptive radiation": divergence in light regime and photosynthetic adaptations in the Hawaiian lobeliads

4:50 PM - Sarah Mathews
Rapid evolution in the photoreceptor phytochrome A of early-diverging flowering plants

5:10 - GENERAL DISCUSSION
Theme: The Intellectual Framework for a Plant Adaptation Science

6:30 - 8:00 PM - INFORMAL RECEPTION AND MIXER + POSTER PRESENTATIONS, UBC Botanical Garden

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