Satellite Sessions

Wednesday Satellite Sessions will provide opportunities for focus groups to meet. To date, satellite sessions are being organized for:

• Application of FISH in Support of Sequencing Plant Genomes (Stephen M. Stack, Colorado State University, USA)

• Bioinformatics: Dr. Heiko Schoof, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Koeln, Germany

• Coffee Genomics (Steven Tanksley, Cornell University, USA; M. André Charrier, Diversité et Génome  des Plantes Cultivées, France)

• Pepper (Byoung-Cheorl Kang, Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University)

• Potato Genomics (Christian Bachem, Wageningen University and Research Centre, the Netherlands)

• Secondary Metabolism (Giovanni Giuliano, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment, Casaccia Research Center, Rome, Italy)

• Solanum Taxonomy (Lynn Bohs, Biology, Utah University)

• Tobacco (Paolo Donini, Philip Morris International)

• Tomato sequencing (Lucas Mueller, Cornell University, USA)

• Translational Genomics: (Allen Van Deynze, Seed Biotechnology Center, California, USA)