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Your Invitation to Attend the
9th IPMB Congress
Leading Biology through Plant Science
October 25-30, 2009
St. Louis, MO – USA
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Plenary Speakers
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Monday, October 26th
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Robb Fraley,
Monsanto, USA
“Applying Plant Molecular Biology to Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability”
Sponsored by Monsanto
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Tuesday, October 27th
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David Baulcombe
Cambridge University, England
“The Roles of Small Silencing RNAs in the Life Cycles of Algae and Higher Plants”
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Peter Raven,
Missouri Botanical Gardens, USA
“Biodiversity: What To Do About It in an Age of Rapid Extinction”
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Wednesday, October 28th
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Geoff Fincher
University of Adelaide, Australia
“Plant Cell Wall Biology: New Insights from Molecular Genetics”
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Graham Moore
John Innes Centre, England
“The Major Chromosome-Pairing Locus in Wheat (Ph1)-A Story 50 Years in the Making”
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Thursday, October 29th
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Marjori Matzke
Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austria
“RNA-Directed DNA Methylation”
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Phil Benfey
Duke University, USA
"Getting to the Root of Developmental Networks"
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Friday, October 30th
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Natasha Raikhel
University of California-Riverside, USA
“Plant Endomembrane System and Chemical Genomics”
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Sharon Long,
Stanford University, USA
"Genes and Signals in Rhizobium-legume symbioses"
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