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Sponsors: Kendro
Meeting Summary
Biochemical Society Focused Meeting incorporating the Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins Memorial Lecture by Professor Chris Somerville (California, Stanford, USA).
Professor Chris Somerville was awarded the 2004 Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins Memorial Lecture given for assessing the impact of recent advances for developments in biochemistry and his pioneering of Arabidopsis as a model for genomics, which has led to great advances in the understanding of plants. Professor Somerville has been one of the prime influences in the Arabidopsis genome sequencing project, and one of the first to recognize how knowledge of the complete genome sequence of an organism can be uniquely valuable for the analysis of gene expression and the function of gene products.
The publication, in December 2000, of the first version of the complete Arabidopsis genome sequence represented the culmination of the first stage of the first genomic analysis of a higher plant. It represented also the start point for the post-genomic era, in which knowledge of the genome sequence of Arabidopsis, and of other plants, would be used as the platform from which plant science could move forward from characterization of patterns of gene expression, to patterns of protein expression, and to protein function. It also allowed a more integrative approach to the analysis of signalling networks and their function in plants.
The proposed programme celebrates the development and exploitation of approaches that have in common the analysis, genomic and post-genomic of the functional co-operation of the products of many genes as plants undergo development, respond to changes in the environment, or react to the presence of pathogens.
Proceedings will be published in Biochemical Society Transactions
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