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ABCDS Meetings, Spring, 2009. Thursdays at 3:30 in Room 473 19-Feb Piya Kittipadakul Tuberization response to photoperiod in potato haploid - wild species hybrids 26-Feb Yiqun Weng Cucumber improvement research in USDA ARS, Madison - short and long term goals and approaches 5-Mar Sergio Melgar Proteomic analysis of cytoplasmic male sterility in onion 12-Mar Felix Navarro Back to the basics: Sample sizes for accurate and precise estimation of defects in vegetables and fruits, the case of potatoes 19-Mar Marina Iovene Rescheduled to April 16, No ABCDS Meeting this week 26-Mar Leah McCann Factors affecting chip processing ability in a wide range of Solanum species." 2-Apr John Bamberg US Potato Genebank: Service and research for potato genetic improvement 9-Apr Dennis Halterman Late blight resistance genes - resistance to more than just late blight? 16-Apr Dan Ronis Marina Iovene Association between pachytene chromosomes and linkage groups in carrot 23-Apr Claudia Calderon Fine mapping towards the cloning of Psm in cucumber 30-Apr Ted Tibbitts Potatoes for life support in space 7-May Calvin Lietzow The inheritance of rind colors in Cucurbita moschata
ABCDS Meetings, Fall, 2008. Thursdays at 3:30 in Room 473 (On Oct 2, Rm 128) Date Presenter Title 2-Oct Mike Havey What I did on sabbatical in Vienna OR Developing cucumber as a model for mitochondrial transformation Room 128 9-Oct Jiwan Palta Improving quality and production of native potatoes in the Peruvian highlands 16-Oct Rob Kane Genetic influences on the seed yielding ability of carrot hybrids 23-Oct Andy Hamernik Introgression of wild species germplasm with extreme resistance to cold sweetening into the cultivated potato 30-Oct Erin Silva Developing a UW organic ag research program NOTE SPECIAL TIME: Seminar will begin at 3:00. CANCELLED 6-Nov Megan Bowman Expression analysis of carotenoid biosynthesis genes in carrot using real time PCR 13-Nov Bala Pudota Characterization of genes involved in RB-mediated late blight resistance of potato 20-Nov Aamir Ali New sources of nematode resistance in carrots 4-Dec Jim Busse History of potato research at UW 11-Dec Yiqun Weng Cucumber improvement research in USDA ARS, Madison - short and long term goals and approaches CANCELLED in favor of department holiday party instead
ABCDS Meetings - Spring 2008 Date Presenter (Lab Group) Title Feb 14 David Spooner and Phil Simon Plant and Animal Genome Meeting Feb 21 Paul Bethke Movement of carbohydrates in potato Feb 28 Aamir Ali (Simon lab) Status of life sciences in Punjab University Mar 6 Karsten Holmquist (Brunet lab) Indirect estimations of contemporary pollen movement: Effects of pollinator type and spatial population structure Mar 13 OPEN Mar 20 Piya Kittipadakul (Jansky lab) Genetic mapping of tuberization under a short photoperiod Mar 27 Flor Rodriguez (Spooner lab) COSII-based mapping and diversity in Solanaceae Apr 3 Yong Suk Chung (Jansky lab) Genetics of resistance to tuber soft rot Apr 10 Angel Hui Song (Staub/Simon labs) Development of a consensus map containing carotenoid biosynthetic genes in cucumber Apr 17 Dennis Halterman Understanding molecular disease resistance mechanisms in potato Apr 24 Zachary Larson-Rabin (Brunet lab) Investigating the genetic control of endoreduplication, and its role in the cell proliferation and cell expansion of plant morphogenesis. May 1 Marina Iovene (Simon lab) In situ hybridization in plants
The ABCDS Group Meetings Fall Semester 2007 Thursday, 3:30 Date Speaker Topic Room October 18 Shelly Jansky Wild Solanum Utilization RESCHEDULED to Dec. 13 Nov. 8 473 October 25 Pablo Cavagnaro Carrot BAC Library Characterization 473 November 1 Yu Monica Chen Hyper-sensitive Response of Potato to Late Blight 473
November 8 Mehtap Yildiz Shelly Jansky Anthocyanin Biosynthesis Genes in Carrot Wild Solanum Utilization 473 November 15 Vanessa Gordon The Effects of Introgression of Chilling Tolerance in Cucumber 473 November 22
Thanksgiving Break November 29 Juan Zalapa
Hybridization Patterns Between U.S. Native and Invasive Siberian Elm 473
December 6 Zhenyu Liu The Interaction Between Potato Potato Late Blight 473 December 13 Shelly Jansky Wild Solanum Utilization 473
ABCD Group Meetings Spring Semester 2007 Thursday, 3:30 Date Speaker Topic Room February 15
Bala Pudota
Functional characterization of genes associated with late blight disease resistance in potato using RNA interference 473
February 22
Mike Havey
The Plant Genome meeting 2006 473
March 1
Sarah Rosenthal
Antioxidants in potato 473
March 8
Anil Khar
Allium research in India and mapping bulb-color genes 473
March 15
Marina Iovene
Cytogenetic comparisons among the Apiaceae 473
March 22 Jin Joo Bae
Breeding for Verticillium wilt resistance in potato 473
March 29 Johanne Brunet Tusar Kanti Behera
What is going on with Aquilegia ? Bitter melon: A future crop of Asia 473
April 8 5
Spring Break
April 12 Leslie Tirado
Cytokinin changes in plants upon cold stress 473
April 19 Natalia Alvorez
The Brevicaule complex: Morphology 473
April 26 Tusar Kanti Behera Johanne Brunet
Bitter melon: A future crop of Asia What is going on with Aquilegia ? 473
ABCD Group Meetings Fall Semester 2006 Thursday, 3:30 Date Speaker Topic Room October 5
Paul Bethke
Potato storage: Life in the slow lane 473
October 12
Vanessa Gordon
Plants and stress environments CANCELLED 473
October 19
Halterman Lab (Zhenyu Liu)
Potato disease resistance 473
October 26
Hugo E. Cuevas
Carotenoids in melon Unannounced schedule change: Lara Colton presented 473
November 2
Shelley Jansky
Potato flavor 473
November 9 Jiming Jiang Sergio Melgar
Potato late blight PPRs in onion 473
November 16 Sergio Melgar Hugo E. Cuevas
PPRs in onion Carotenoids in melon 473
November 24
Thanksgiving Holiday
November 30 Diego Fajardo & Flor Rodriguez & David Spooner
Potato and tomato phylogeny 473
December 7 Karsten Holmquist
Pollen-mediated gene dispersal 473
ABCD Group Meetings Spring Semester 2006 Thursday, 3:30 Date Speaker Topic Room February 16
Shanna Mason
Genetics of fruit quality in cucumber 473
February 23
Isabelle Delannay
Broadening genetic diversity in cucumber 473
March 2
Vanessa Gordon
The chloroplast genome of cucumber CANCELLED 473
March 9
Mike Havey
Asparagales genomes 473
March 16
Spring Break
March 23 Jenelle Meyer
Genetic basis of recurrent selection for maysin 473
March 30 Leah McCann
Wild potato chipping ability 473 462
April 6 Phil Simon + Soledad Alessandro
Genetic variation in wild garlic + Genetic and molecular study of vernalization response in carrot (Daucus carota L.) 473 462
April 14 Rob Kane
Factors contributing to carrot seed production 473 462
April 20 Sara Arscott
Selenium enriched vegetables 473 462
ABCD Group Meetings Fall Semester 2005 Thursday, 3:30 Date Speaker Topic Room October 20
Sulieman Al-Faifi
The Psm locus of cucumber 247
October 27
Irwin Goldman
Selenium enrichment of vegetables 247
November 3
Steve Raines
Onion carbohydrates 247
November 10
Hugo Cuevas
Carotenes in Cucumis 247
November 17
Mark Ansay
Markers for CMS restoration and other genes in carrot 247
November 24
Thanksgiving Holiday
December 1 Matt Robbins
Marker-assisted selection in cucumber 247
December 8 Shanna Mason
Fruit quality in cucumber CANCELLED 247
ABCD Group Meetings Spring Semester 2005 Thursday, 3:30 Date Speaker Topic Room February 17
Brian Dunphy
Patterns of gene flow in three tropical tree species in a highly fragmented landscape 473
February 24
Mike Havey
To be announced 473
March 3
Phil Simon
Carrot anthocyanins 473
March 10
Sara Arscott Jack Staub
An interspecific hybrid in Cucumis 473
March 17
Pablo Cavagnaro
Variation in flavor and health compounds in garlic 473
March 24
Spring Break
March 31 Tom Koch Sara Arscott
To be announced 247
April 7 Jack Staub Sara Arscott Tom Koch
Cancelled 247
April 14
Leah McCann Tom Koch
Selection for increased vitamin E in carrots 473
April 21
Monica Norby Leah McCann
Sugar variation for cold chipping in wild Solanum species 473
April 28
Marina Iovene
Cytological localization of rRNA genes in several Apiaceae 473
May 5
Shanna Mason
Genetics of fruit quality in cucumber 247
ABCD Group Meetings Fall Semester 2004 Thursday, 3:30 Date Speaker Topic Room October 21
Irwin Goldman
Severe population bottlenecks and the response to divergent selection 473
October 28
Mike Havey
Comparative mapping of onion and rice 473
November 4
Crystal Stewart
Horticulture therapy applications 473
November 11
Jernej Jakse
Sequencing of onion and asparagus 473
November 18
Dariusz Grzebelus
Transposon display-based DNA for carrot 473
November 25
Thanksgiving Holiday
December 2 Vanessa Gordon
The chloroplast genome of cucumber 247
December 9 Miriam Paris
Fruit quality analysis in melon 473
ABCD Group Meetings Spring Semester 2004 Thursday, 3:30 Date Speaker Topic Room February 12
Irwin Goldman
Nutritional anthropocentrism and breeding for health-related traits 247
February 19
Group Discussion Kyle Willis
Plant Genome 2003 VIGS Based Silencing of Tomato 247
February 26
Brian Just
Profiling carotenoid biosynthesis in carrot roots 247
March 4
Jack Staub
Genetic diversity in melon 247
March 11
Mike Havey
Molecular facilitated selection in onion Marker selection for virus resistance in tomato 247
March 18
Spring Break 247
March 25 Phil Simon
Pursuing major genes in carrot 247
April 8 April 1 Juan Zalapa
Mapping yield components in melon 247
April 1 April 8 Monica Norby
Potato late blight resistance 247
April 15 Jewej Jakse
Microsatellites in hops CANCELLED 247
April 22 Maggie Schaber
Visual versus marker-based identification/selection of F 1 hybrid progeny in table beet 247
April 29 Sang-Min Chung
Sequencing of the cucumber chloroplast genome 247
May 6 Zhanyong Sun
Mapping parthenocarpy in cucumber 247
ABCD Group Meetings Fall Semester 2003 Thursday, 3:30
Date Speaker Topic Room September 25
Erin Silva
Quantification of anthocyanins in purple carrot 473
October 2
Bill Briggs
Recurrent selection in model fast plant populations Rescheduled to Oct 30 473
October 9
Bill Martin
Comparative genomics of the Asparagales 247
October 16
Daniel De Joode Mike Havey
Effects of logging on understory plant diversity Genetics of fructan accumulation in onion 473
October 23
Mike Havey Daniel De Joode
Genetics of fructan accumulation in onion Effects of logging on understory plant diversity 473
October 30
Jack Staub Bill Briggs
Genetic diversity in melon Recurrent selection in model fast plant populations
473
November 6
John Prichard
Phylogenetic analysis of Solanum Rescheduled to Nov 13 473
November 13
Maggie Schaber
Visual versus marker-based identification/selection of F1 hybrid progeny in table beet Rescheduled to next semester 247
John Prichard Phylogenetic analysis of Solanum November 20
Irwin Goldman
Nutritional anthropocentrism and breeding for health-related traits Rescheduled to next semester 473
November 27
Thanksgiving
December 4
Johanne Brunet
Plant size, pollinators and selfing rate In Aquilegia coerulea
473
December 11
Josh Hyman
Comparison of AFLPs across related carrot populations 247
ABCD Group Meetings Spring Semester 2003 Thursday, 3:30
Date Speaker Topic Room February 20 Phil Simon Application of biological knowledge in feeding 11 billion people 247 February 27 Mike Havey What to do with 11,008 onion ESTs 247 March 6 Veronica Gaertner Pigment distribution in high pigment table beet populations 473 March 13 Jack Staub Sex expression in cucumber 247 March 20 Spring Break March 27 Tom Koch at 3:00 Tocopherols in carrots 473 April 3 Bill Martin Postharvest physiology and genetics of snapdragon 473 April 10 Meryem Ipek Garlic variation Moved to April 17 247 April 17 Meryem Ipek Garlic variation 247 April 24 SangMin Chung Phylogenetic relationships in the Cucurbitaceae 473 May 1 Juan Zalapa The inheritance of yield components in melon: Progress report 473 May 8 Bill Briggs Genetic variation and response to Selection in model 'Fast Plant' populations 247
ABCD Group Meetings Fall Semester 2002 Thursday, 3:30
Date Speaker Topic Room September 26
Darzic Grzebelus
Update on the transposable element in Dacus
473
October 3
Irwin Goldman
Why medicine needs agriculture
473
October 10
Josh Hyman
Caroenoids in Lycopersicon species
247
October 17
Erin Silva
Carbohydrate partitioning and nectar production in onion
473
October 24
Matthew Robbins
Deployment of molecular markers for multiple-trait selection in cucumber
473
October 31
Anabel L?pez-Ses?
A framework for the evaluation of germplasm
473
November 7
Mike Havey
A new paradigm for breeding long - generation crops
473
November 14
Jack Staub
Methodologies to improve genetic diversity analysis - Cancelled
247
November 21
Grzegorz Bartoszewski
Genetic analysis of MSC the mutation of cucumber
473
November 28
Thanksgiving Recess
December 5
Phil Simon
Application of biological knowledge in feeding 11 billion people Cancelled
247
ABCD Group Meetings Spring Semester 2002 Thursday, 3:30 Date Speaker Topic Room February 28 Round table discussion: Plant Genome Meeting 2002 473 March 7 John Pritchard Putative gene transfer from cultivated to wild Solanum species 473 March 14 Juan Zalapa Progress towards understanding the inheritance and mapping of multiple lateral branching in melon 247 473March 21 Sang Min Chung Development of concensus chloroplast markers for genetic analysis 247 March 28 Spring Break April 4 Pablo Cavagnaro Alliinase gene family in garlic 473 April 11 Dariusz Grzebelus Insertion sequence disrupting carrot invertase gene-is it a novel transposable element? 247 April 18 Crow Lecture Series Genetics Auditorium April 25 Ahmet Ipek Transposon tagging in carrot 473 May 2 Brian Just Genetic mapping of carrot pigment mutations 473 May 9 Zhanyong Sun Genetics of parthenocarpy in cucumber 247
ABCD Group Meetings Fall Semester 2001 Thursday, 3:30 Date Speaker Topic Room October 18 Brian Just Genetic mapping in Malus 473 October 25 Beda N. Dahal Vitamin A rich product preparation by local agricultural cooperatives using local crops in Nepal 473 November 1 Grzegorz Bartoszewski Genetic basis of MSC phenotype of cucumber 473 November 8 Phil Simon The nature of resistance to southern nematode in carrot 473 November 15 Matt Robbins Progress towards combining complex yield traits in cucumber 473 November 22 Thanksgiving Break 473 November 29 Anabel L?pez-Ses? Phenotypic selection for multiple lateral branching in cucumber 473 December 6 Tom Koch Progress of studies relating to carotenoids and tocopherols in carrots 473
ABCD Group Meetings Spring Semester 2001 Thursday, 3:30 Date Speaker Topic Room Feb. 15 Mark Ansay CMS restorers in carrot 473 Feb. 22 Pablo Cavagnaro Penicillium resistance in Argentinian garlic 473 March 1 Irwin Goldman How the orange carrot got its color 473 March 8 Bill Briggs Either onions or fast plants 247 March 22 Mike Havey Recent advances on CMS studies in onion 473 March 29 Dick Lower Plant types in cucumber 473 April 6 Phil Simon Breeding for carrot quality 473 April 12 Ali Gokce Changes in allelic frequencies in CMS populations 247 April 19 Grzegorz Bartoszewski Tomato breeding and transformation in Poland Cancelled 473 April 26 Sun Zhanyong Parthenocarpy in cucumber 473 May 3 Gennaro Fazio QTL mapping and marker-assisted selection in cucumber 473
ABCD Group Meetings Fall Semester 2000 Thursday, 3:30 Date Speaker Topic Place Sept. 28 Marek Szlarczyk Genes showing association with CMS in carrots 473 Oct. 5 Jack Staub Genetic diversity assessment in melon 473 Oct. 12 Young Hong Park Molecular tagging of virus resistance in cucumber 247 Oct. 19 Matt Robbins Fine mapping of the Tomato Frl locus which confers resistance to fusarium crown rot 473 Oct. 26 Phil Simon Carrot breeding and quality improvement - Cancelled 473 Nov. 2 Anabel Lopez Sese' Estimation of genetic variation in melon for germplasm management 247 Nov. 9 Sang-Min Chung Inheritance of chilling injury in cucumber 247 Nov. 16 Beda Nidhi Dahal A glance of Nepal and research in BIOINT 247 Nov. 30 Mark Ansay CMS restores in carrot Cancelled 473 Dec. 7 Bill Briggs Either onions or fast plants Cancelled 247 Dec. 14 Ahmet Ipek Transposon tagging in carrot 247
ABCD Schedule 3:30 PM Thursdays Spring 2000 Date Speaker Topic Place Feb.24 Phil Simon A collection of Mediterranean Daucus 473 Mar.2 Jack Staub Map merging studies in cucumber 473 Mar.9 Dr. Shivaji Pandey 247 Mar.16 SPRING BREAK
Mar.23 Jason Lilly Organellar genetics 473 Mar.30 Leonardo Boiteux A construction of a RAPD-based map of carrot 473 Apr. 6 Gennaro Fazio SSR development and its application to breeding for multiple lateral branching cucumber phenotypes 473 Apr. 13 Dr. Mary Ruth McDonald Challenges in managing onion smut (Orocystis cepulae) 247 Apr. 20 Inga Bach Male sterility in carrot 473 Apr. 27 Marilyn Horius Screening yellow cooking onions for resistance to white rot. 473 May 4 Kathryn Orvis Onion health studies Rescheduled to May 11 May 11 Kathryn Orvis Onion health studies 247
Note Room Changes on Two Dates!!
ABCD Schedule 3:30 PM Thursdays Fall 1999 Date Speaker Topic Place Sept. 23 Bill Briggs Differential in vitro antiplatelet activity of Allium thiosulfinates and assessment of an in vivo coronary thrombosis model 473 Sept. 30 Herbert Peterka Allium species hybridization 473 Oct. 07 Mike Havey Cucumber as a model system for mitochondrial transformation 473 Oct. 14 Ana I. Lopez Sese Virus resistance in melon 247 Oct. 21 Dr. Sidhu Vegetable breeding program at Punjab Agriculture University 473 Oct. 28 PCIC No meeting Nov. 04 Young Hoon Park Mapping of virus resistance loci in cucumber 473 Nov. 11 Carlos Santos Genetic Control and Mapping of Carotene Genes in Carrot 247 Nov. 18 Joe Kuhl Late blight resistance in 2x 1 EBN Mexican Solanum species 473 Nov. 25 Thanksgiving No Meeting Note Room Changes on Two Dates!!
ABCD Group Meetings Spring Semester 1999 Thursday, 3:30 Date Speaker Topic Room Feb. 18 Jack Staub Genetic diversity in cucumber: An approach to a core collection 473 Feb. 25 Daniela Liete Cytoplasmic molecular diversity in leek 473 March 4 Gennaro Fazio Breeding for multiple lateral branching in cucumber 247 March 18 Irwin Goldman Immigration of Puritans, Pilgrims, and onions to the New World - Rescheduled to Mar. 25 473 March 25 Jason Lilly Cytogenetics of organelles and other stuff - Rescheduled to Apr. 22 March 25 Irwin Goldman Immigration of Puritans, Pilgrims, and onions to the New World 473 April 8 Azumi Tozuka Genetic study of carrot color 247 April 15 Zhangyong Sun Inheritance and mapping of parthenocarpy genes in cucumber 473 April 22 Joe Kuhl Late blight resistance in 2x(IFBW) Solanaceae - Cancelled April 22 Jason Lilly Cytogenetics of organelles and other stuff 473 April 29 Bill Briggs Differential antiplatelet activity of Allium thiosulfinates - Cancelled 473 May 6 Carlos Santos Genetics and mapping of carotenoids in carrot - Cancelled 473
ABCD Group Meetings Fall Semester 1998 Thursday, 2:30 Date Speaker Topic Room Oct. 8 Sang-Min Chung Chilling tolerance studies in cucumber - Rescheduled to Oct. 15 Oct. 15 Sang-Min Chung Chilling tolerance studies in cucumber 473 Oct. 22 Mike Havey Cytoplasm used commercially to produce hybrid onion 473 Oct. 29 Jack Staub Genetic diversity in African melon PI's 473 Nov. 5 Ali Fuat Gokce Molecular facilitated maintainer line selection in onion 473 Nov. 12 Jim Bradeen Molecular diversity assessment in carrot - Postponed Dec. 3 Gennaro Fazio Incorporation of multiple lateral branching in a unilateral branching elite cucumber genotype - Postponed Dec. 10 Frank Yau Characterization of the carrot (Daucus carota ) Rs mutant in the line B4367rs - Postponed
ABCD Group Meetings Spring Semester 1998 Thursday, 3:30 Date Speaker Topic Room Feb. 26 Mike Havey Orgin of onion 473 Mar. 5 Tom Horejsi Diversity analysis in melon 473 Mar. 12 Phil Simon Origin of carrot 247 Mar. 19 Barbara Michalik Gynogenesis in Allium 473 Mar. 26 Irwin Goldman The beginnings of beets 473 Apr. 2 Claudio Galmarini Onion situation in the MERCOSUR 473 Apr. 9 Leonardo Boiteux at 2:30 Identification of disease resistance analogous gene sequences in the carrot genome 247 Apr. 16 Ahmet Ipek at 2:30 Transformation of maize transposable elements, Ac and Ds into carrot 473 Apr. 23 Inga Bach at 2:30 CMS in carrot 473 Apr. 30 Karen S. Osmont at 2:30 Fibronectin-like binding protein from onion 473 May 7 Ali Fuat Gokce Mapping in onion - Rescheduled to May 21 May 14 Ahmed Mliki at 2:30 In vitro regeneration and transgenesis in globe artichoke (Cynara scolymus L.) 473 May 21 Ali Fuat Gokce at 2:30 Mapping in onion - Cancelled
ABCD Group Meetings Fall Semester 1997 Thursday, 3:30 Date Speaker Topic Room Oct. 9 Gennaro Fazio Mapping of markers linked to crown rot resistance in tomato 247 Oct. 16 Mike Havey Evolution of large nuclear genomes 473 Oct. 23 Azumi Tozuka Evolution & genetics of Glycine soja 473 Nov. 6 Jim Bradeen Breeder friendly markers from AFLP's 473 Nov. 13 Meryem Ipek Determination of diversity in garlic by molecular markers 247 Dec. 4 Jason Lilly Cucurbit mitochondrial genome evolution 473 Dec. 11 Eduardo Villanueva FISH & RFLP analyses of Allium interspecific hybrids 247