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DAY 3: Sorting of Adaptive Variation (Venue: Botanical Garden Reception and Education Centre)

Seventh Session (Chair: Barbara Mable)
RECOMBINATION AND POPULATIONS

9:00 AM - Kermit Ritland (keynote)
Prospects in Plant Population Genomics

9:40 AM - Philip Awadalla
The Genomic Significance of Recombination to Adaptation in Plants

10:00 AM - Mitchell Cruzan and Jennifer Rhode
Hybridization and Adaptive Variation in the Piriqueta Complex

10:20 AM - Brian Husband
Role of genome duplication as an instrument of adaptation along an altitudinal gradient in fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium)

10:40 AM - COFFEE

11:00 AM - Donald Levin
The Cytoplasmic Factor in Plant Speciation

11:20 AM - Amy Bouck
Genetic mapping of reproductive isolation in Louisiana Irises

Eighth Session (Chair: Barbara Mable)
MODEL SYSTEMS AND TOOLS

11:40 AM - Barbara Mable
Molecular genetics of sporophytic self-incompatibility in diploid and tetraploid populations of the Arabidopsis lyrata species group

12:00 PM - Heather McKhann
Arabidopsis natural genetic variation: a nested core collection of genotypes

12:20 PM - LUNCH

1:30 Workshop (Chair: Carl Douglas)
Theme: New Methods and Tools for Plant Adaptation - what do we need?

2:30 PM - Brief closing remarks from Quentin Cronk

2:40 PM Optional Tour - UBC Museum of Anthropology and Nitobe Memorial Garden (Coordinator: TBA) Maximum of 40 for Museum of Anthropology tour, followed by tour of Nitobe Memorial Gardens

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