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Agreed participants to date:
Barry Osmond, Gerry Edwards, Peter Westhoff, Jane Langdale,
Jim Berry, John Sheehy, Mitsue Miyao, Katsura Izui, J.Andrew Smith,
Ulrich Lüttge, Ernesto Medina, Steve Long, Joe Holtum, Richard Leegood,
Bob Furbank, Colin Osborne, Russ Monson,
Joe Berry, Klaus Winter Tsuyoshi Furomoto and Xinguang Zhu
Organisers:
Howard Griffiths, Annie Borland, Julian Hibberd.
Steering committee:
Susanne von Caemmerer, John Cushman, James Hartwell, Rowan Sage.
Sessions include:
- Incorporation of C4 traits into rice
- C4 perennial biomass and biofuels
- Comparative Evolution and development of C4 and CAM
- Molecular Divergence
- Metabolic Convergence
- Global Ecology
- Functional Genomics
- Environmental Physiology
Background information
We are pleased to announce that a symposium will be dedicated to C4 and CAM processes. The meeting will be held in
July 2007 as a Satellite to the International Photosynthesis Congress in Glasgow, (visit SEB
website) in part to celebrate the huge strides made in understanding the comparative physiology of C4 and CAM over the past 50
years, providing timely lessons for the integration of molecular processes in both ecological and agronomic contexts. At one level, we intend
to pay tribute to key pioneers in the field, such as Barry Osmond and Gerry Edwards. Primarily, however, we seek to establish a comparative
framework which will review recent developments and set the research agenda for the subsequent decade.
The venue for accommodation will be Corpus Christi College,
University of Cambridge, with lectures 5 minutes walk away in the
Department of Plant Sciences, on the following days: 17- 20th (Tues - Fri) July, 2007.
The first session, on "Sustainability of food and bioenergy production for a changing world"
will start around 10.30 am 17th July. We are within easy reach of Stansted Airport, for onward
travel to Glasgow. Please contact us (hg230@cam.ac.uk) if you are interested in participating.
Acknowledgement for images:
On poster: Peter Westhoff, University of Duesseldorf, Susanne von Caemmerer, Australian National University,
Annie Borland, University of Newcastle, Howard Griffiths University of Cambridge;
Additional images on website: John Cushman, University of Reno; Jim Haseloff, University of Cambridge
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