• Programme
• Participants

April 26 - 29

P R O G R A M M E

DAY 1: Saturday, 27 April

09:00 – Registration
09:20 – Welcome address, introduction, presentation of attendees
10:00 – John Dransfield: the next edition of Genera Palmarum
Round table 1: Present and future of higher level taxonomy in palms. Chairman: John Dransfield
10:45 Coffee break

Session 1: Ecology and Paleoecology of palms

11:20 – Jean Maley: Paleobiogeography of palms in tropical Africa and South America inferred from fossil pollen data.
11:40 – Jérôme Chave: Dispersal and heterogeneous landscape-scale distribution of the palm Astrocaryum sciophilum in French Guiana
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Coffee at CEFE

Session 2: Reproductive biology of palms
14:00 – Sophie Nadot: Study project: Development and evolution of pollen grain aperture pattern in Arecaceae
14:20 – Jette Knudsen: Variation in floral scents in Geonoma macrostachys
14:40 – Mathilde Dufaÿ: Foliar scents in Chamaerops humilis
15:00 – Round table 2: Pollination and pollination syndrome in palms. Chairman: Marie-Charlotte Anstett
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 – Yves Duval: Molecular determinism of oil palm flower architecture (to be confirmed)
16:50 – Fred Stauffer: Comparative morphology of the gynoecium in the neotropical tribe Geonomeae
16:50 – Frédérique Aberlenc-bertossi: anatomical and physiological studies of oil palm late embryogenesis
17:30 – Round table 3: free discussion on the day's topics
18:00 – End of seminar.
20:30 – Banquet

DAY 2: Sunday, 28 April

Session 3: genomic structure and genetic diversity

09:30 – Pat Heslop-Harrison: molecular cytogenetics and genome structure of oil palm
09:50 – Norbert Billotte: Development of microsatellite markers in palms
10:10 – Conny Asmussen: AFLP data on genetic variation in Hyophorbe lagenicaulis
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 – Round table 4: what can we learn from population-level molecular analyses of palms ? Chairman: Conny Asmussen
12:00 Lunch break
13:30 Coffee at CEFE

Session 4: cultivated palms
14:00 – Florent Engelmann: Long term conservation of palm genetic resources using cryopreservation: the case of oil palm.
14:20 – Sally Henderson: Study project: the enigmatic Phoenix atlantica
14:40 – Final discussion and prospects for the next European and international Palms meetings
16:00 – End of EUNOPS 2002

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