Conifer Microsatellite Workshop: A Conference of Evolution, Ecology and Genomics: June 4-7 at Texas A&M University

[122517]威廉斯德克萨斯州农工大学实验室的针叶树微卫星研讨会是将松树微卫星技术转移到其他实验室的努力的一部分。2001年6月4日至7日的研讨会将培训来自政府、大学和工业界的研究人员、博士后和研究生。研讨会有以下组成部分：讲座、实验室和计算训练、案例研究应用系列研讨会、生态和进化基因组学方向圆桌讨论以及实验室协议和计算资源手册。作为实验室培训的一部分，参与者将测试针叶松微卫星是否对其他针叶树物种有用。教学质量将由卓越教学中心评估。微卫星和其他基于序列的基因组学工具促进了进化、生态遗传学和功能基因组学（EEFG）的跨学科研究。针叶树是现存最古老的种子植物，因此EEFG研究可以为陆地植物的进化提供重要的推论；针叶树具有高度重复的巨型基因组，需要新的方法来研究基因组的组织和功能。来自针叶树基因组保守部分的核微卫星是针叶树脑电图研究的首批专门工具之一。

0122517WilliamsThe Conifer Microsatellite Workshop at Texas A&M lab is part of an effort to transfer pine microsatellite technology to other labs. The June 4-7 2001 workshop will train investigators, postdocs and graduate students from government, universities and industry. The workshop has the following components: lectures, lab and computational training, a seminar series on case study applications, a roundtable discussion on direction of ecological and evolutionary genomics and a handbook of lab protocols and computational resources. As part of the lab training, the participants will test whether Pinus taeda microsatellites are useful in other conifer species. Instructional quality will be evaluated by the Center of Teaching Excellence.Microsatellites and other sequence-based genomics tools facilitate cross-disciplinary research in evolution, ecological genetics and functional genomics(EEFG). The emerging EEFG paradigm is powerful for the conifer research community because 1) conifers are the oldest extant seed plants, thus EEFG research can make significant inferences to land plant evolution and 2) conifers have highly duplicated, leviathan genomes in need of novel approaches for studying genome organization and function. Nuclear microsatellites from conserved parts of the conifer genome is one of the first specialized tools to be developed for EEFG research in conifers.