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

德克萨斯A&M实验室的针叶树微卫星研讨会是将PINE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、大学和工业界的调查人员、博士后和研究生。讲习班包括以下部分：讲座、实验室和计算培训、关于案例研究应用的系列研讨会、关于生态和进化基因组学方向的圆桌讨论以及实验室方案和计算资源手册。作为实验室培训的一部分，参与者将测试火炬松微卫星是否对其他针叶树种有用。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进化、生态遗传学和功能基因组学(EEFG)的跨学科研究。新出现的EEFG范式对针叶树研究界来说是强大的，因为1)针叶树是现存最古老的种子植物，因此EEFG研究可以对陆地植物的进化做出重要的推断；2)针叶树具有高度重复的、巨型的基因组，需要新的方法来研究基因组组织和功能。来自针叶树基因组保守部分的核微卫星是为研究针叶树EEFG而开发的第一批专门工具之一。

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.