Symposium 18

Saturday August 25

There might be minor changes in the program.
Location: University main building, Room IX

  The origins and spread of agriculture: an evolutionary perspective
  Organizers: Terry Brown, University of Manchester, UK
Martin Jones, University of Cambridge, UK
     
  9.45-10.15 Wayne Powell (invited)
Evolution and domestication of crop plants: new insight from population-based re sequencing of candidate genes
  10.15-10.45 Robin Allaby (invited)
Modelling approaches with multilocus systems and the origins of agriculture
  10.45-11.05 Huw Jones
Diversity of the photoperiod response gene Ppd-H1 in European barley and evidence for the origins of an adaptive trait
  11.05-11.35 Coffee
  11.35-11.55 Hazel Goodwin
The Evolution and Spread of Triticum aestivum in Europe
  11.55-12.15 Jennifer Cunniff
Response of wild C4 crop progenitors to subambient CO2 highlights a possible role in the origin of agriculture
  12.15-12.35 Thure Hauser
Hybridization and evolution between cultivated plants and wild relatives
  12.35-12.55 Anna Westerbergh
Genetic and phenotypic changes in the evolution of the tropical crop cassava (Manihot esculenta spp. esculenta)
  12.55-14.00 Lunch

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