Invited speakers

l David Cove, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
l Introduction

l Stefan Rensing, University of Freiburg, Germany
l The genome of the moss Physcomitrella patens reveals evolutionary insights
l into the conquest of land by plants

l Andrew Cuming, University of Leeds, UK
l Gene Targeting

l Michael Axtell, PennState, USA
l Four distinct classes of small RNAs in Physcomitrella

l Masamitsu Wada, NIBB, Japan
l Photoreceptors and their downstream targets for chloroplast movement

l Nick Harberd, University of Oxford, UK
l Evolution of land-plant growth- regulatory mechanisms

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