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  1. Abrams,S.R. Abscisic acid analogs – Toward development of ABA-based plant growth regulators. Plant Growth Regulation Society of America Annual Conference.Newport Beach, California, USA. 2005.

  2. Abrams,S.R. Abscisic acid metabolism and action Chemical Studies. University of Alberta Department of Chemistry. 2005.

  3. Cutler,A.J. Microarray analysis of gene expression in germinating and dormant Brassica napus seeds. 5th Annual General Meeting of the NRC Genomics and Health Initiative, May 16th - 19th, Montreal, QC. 2004.

  4. Datla,R. Developmental and genomic studies in Brassica embryogenesis. 2nd Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop, Quebec City, QB, August 29-September 1. 2004.

  5. Datla,R. Developmental insights from gene expression profiling in canola and its relatives. NRC Genome Sciences: 4th Annual Meeting of the Genomics & Health Initiative.Saskatoon, Canada, August 20-23. 2003.

  6. Datla,R. Functional genomics of Brassica embryo development. GARNet meeting, Norwich, UK, September 5. 2005.

  7. Datla,R., Xiang,D., Wang,E., Prakash,V., Kushalappa,K., Wan,L., Ross,A.R., Keller,W., and Selvaraj,G. Gene Expression And Network Dynamics During Embryo Development In Brassica And Arabidopsis. Development Of Brassica Seed cDNA Microarray. Plant & Animal Genomes XIV Conference.January 14-18, San Diego, CA. 2006.

  8. Datla,R., Xiang,D., Wang,E., Prakash,V., Kushalappa,K., Keller W, and Selvaraj,G. Gene expression dynamics during embryo development in Brassica napus and Arabidopsis. Third Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop, Saskatoon, SK, August 28-31. 2005.

  9. Datla,R. Gene Expression patterns in embryo development. Maize 2004 & Beyond: Genes, Genomics and Crop Improvement, Toledo, USA. 2004.

  10. Datla R. (2003) Developmental insights from gene expression profiling in canola and its relatives. NRC Genome Sciences 2003: 4th Annual Meeting of the Genomics & Health Initiative. Saskatoon. 

  11. Georges,F. Functional Genomics of Transgenes in Brassica napus – The Ripple Effect. 5th Annual General Meeting of the NRC Genomics and Health Initiative, May 16th - 19th, Montreal, QC. 2004.

  12. Georges,F. Reduction of phytate, phenolics and undesirable sugars in canola. Applying Genomics to Canola Improvement Workshop, Saskatoon, SK, December 9. 2004.

  13. Hannoufa,A. A genomics framework for engineering phytate and sinapine metabolism. AAFC Fifth Genomics Meeting, Saskatoon, SK. 2003.

  14. Hannoufa,A. Progress towards reducing antinutritional factors in canola meal. AAFC Sixth Genomics Meeting, Ottawa, ON. 2004.

  15. Hannoufa,A. Secondary metabolite modification in canola. Applying Genomics to Canola Improvement Workshop, Saskatoon, SK, December 9. 2004.

  16. Huang,J., Rozina,H., Ashe,P., Datla,R., and Gopalan,S. A group of hydrophilins that accumulate during seed development in Brassica napus (canola): developmental, hormonal and environmental regulation. 1st Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, August 23-26. 2006.

  17. Huang,Y., Hirji,R., Ashe,P., Datla,R., and Selvaraj,G. A group of hydrophilins that accumulate during seed development in Brassica napus (canola): developmental, hormonal and environmental regulation. 1st Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, August 23-26. 2003.

  18. Keller W . ECTG project update. Applying Genomics to Canola Improvement Workshop, Saskatoon, SK, December 9. 2004.

  19. Keller W . Enhancing Canola through Genomics, a progress update. National Genomics and Proteomics Symposium Toronto, September 25-26. 2003.

  20. Keller W . Enhancing Canola through Genomics, a project overview. Annual Canola Industry Meeting, Saskatoon, SK, December 3. 2003.

  21. Keller W . NRC Genomics program at NRC-PBI. Bio-Science Week 2004. Ag-West Biotech Inc. Co-existence: the challenges and opportunities. Genomics in Saskatchewan Session, Saskatoon, SK, May 17. 2004.

  22. Keller,W. and Bekkaoui,F. Enhancing Canola Through Genomics, Genomics of canola seed development and metabolism. A
    Genome Canada Phase II project. GARNet meeting, Norwich, UK, September 5. 2005.

  23. Lydiate,D. Brassica/Arabidopsis genomics at AAFC. Bio-Science Week 2004. Ag-West Biotech Inc. Co-existence: the challenges and opportunities. Genomics in Saskatchewan Session, Saskatoon, SK, May 17. 2004.

  24. Mietkiewska,E. Novel fatty acid elongases strategic for high erucic acid biosynthesis. Sixth Annual General Meeting of NRC Genomics Health Initiative 3, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, Sept.26-29. 2005.

  25. Parkin,I. Brassica BAC libraries. Applying Genomics to Canola Improvement Workshop, Saskatoon, SK, December 9. 2004.

  26. Prakash,V., Xiang,D., Martin,M., Sarauer,B., Palmer CE, Keller W, Selvaraj,G., and Datla,R. Developmental and Transcript Profiling of Embryogenesis in Brassica napus and Related Species. 1st Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, August 23-26. 2003.

  27. Rahman,M., Ferrie,A., Cutler,A.J., Taylor,D.C., Abrams,S.R., and Krochko,J. A targeted cDNA microarray for studies of hormone signaling and plant development. 4th GHI/NRC Annual General Meeting, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, August 20-23. 2003.

  28. Rahman,M., Ferrie,A., Cutler,A.J., Taylor,D.C., Abrams,S.R., and Krochko,J. Development of a targeted cDNA microarray for the dissection of abscisic acid signaling networks in seeds. Dhaka, Bangledesh, March 10. 2003.

  29. Reaney,M. Industrial Platform Crops. Plant Bio-Industrial Oils Symposium/Workshop, March 15-16, Saskatoon, SK. 2005.

  30. Reaney,M. and Christensen,C. Pioneering Plant Research Using Synchrotron Light Workshop. 8th Annual CLS Users Meeting, Saskatoon, SK. 2005.

  31. Ross,A.R. Protein Expression Profiling in Developing Plant Embryos. 3rd Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop, Saskatoon SK, August 28-31. 2005.

  32. Sharpe,A. Brassica microarrays. Applying Genomics to Canola Improvement Workshop, Saskatoon, SK, December 9. 2004.

  33. Singh,J. Introduction to Genomics 2004. Applying Genomics to Canola Improvement Workshop, Saskatoon, SK, December 9. 2004.

  34. Taylor,D.C. New Genes for Brassica Oil Modification. Applying Genomics to Canola Improvement Workshop, Saskatoon, SK, December 9. 2004.

  35. Taylor,D.C. Opportunities to Utilize Plant-Based Oils as Industrial Feedstocks of the Future. The Bio-Logical Futures Conference, Saskatoon, SK, June 15. 2003.

  36. Wan,L. Protein Expression Profiling in Developing Plant Embryos. Sixth Annual General Meeting of NRC Genomics Health Initiative 3, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, Sept.26-29. 2005.

  37. Young,L. and Reaney,M. IR and X-ray imaging of seeds for compositional determination. Imaging Group Presentation, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, April 16. 2004.

  38. Young,L. and Reaney,M. Visualising plant structures using Diffraction Enhanced ImagingPioneering Plant Research Using Synchrotron Light Workshop. 8th Annual CLS Users Meeting, Saskatoon, SK. 2005.

  39. Young,L., Reaney,M., Westcott,N., Lydiate,D., Chapman,D., and Marinkovic,N. Whole seed "ionomics" using synchrotron light Conference "Co-existance". Delta Bessborough, Saskatoon, SK, May 17. 2004.

  40. Zou,J. Dissecting the genetic and metabolic network underlying fatty acid deposition by quantitative trait locus analysis. Sixth Annual General Meeting of NRC Genomics Health Initiative 3, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, Sept.26-29. 2005.

Oral Presentations   ~ Posters ~ Outreach

Posters

  1. Bekkaoui,F., Xiang,D., Datla,R., Li,F., Cutler,A.J., Georges,F., Tsang,E., Krochko,J., Selvaraj,G., Koh,K., Nowak,J., Klassen,D., Deneault,JS., Nantel,A., and Keller,W. Development Of Brassica Seed cDNA Microarray. Plant & Animal Genomes XIV Conference.January 14-18, San Diego, CA. 2006.

  2. Bekkaoui,F. Genomics of canola seed development and metabolism. 2nd Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop, Quebec City, QB, August 29-September 1. 2004.

  3. Bryce,K., Beck,J., Klassen,D., Panchuk,B., and Pelcher,L. Fidelity of DNA sequence from template prepared with Templiphi. 1st Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, August 23-26. 2003.

  4. Datla,R., Venglat,D., Xiang,D., Kushalappa,K., Keller W, and Selvaraj,G. Developmental and Genomics studies in Brassica embryogenesis. National Genomics and Proteomics Symposium, Vancouver, Canada. 2004.

  5. Dauk,M. and Zou,J. Mutations in carbon and lipid metabolism enzymes: the impact on seed oil deposition in Arabidopsis. 2nd Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop, Quebec City, QB, August 29-September 1. 2004.

  6. Fei,H., Tsang,E., and Cutler,A.J. Gene expression profiling during induction and release of secondary dormancy in Brassica napus. Fifth Annual General Meeting of NRC Genomics Health Initiative 2, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 16-19. 2004.

  7. Fei,H., Tsang,E., and Cutler,A.J. Microarray analysis of gene expression in Brassica napus seed dormancy. American Society Plant Biology Meeting, Buena Vista, Florida, USA, July 24-28. 2004.

  8. Hannoufa,A., Schafer,U.A., Gropp,G.G., and Epp,D. A Functional Genomics Analysis of The Phenylpropanoid Pathway in Arabidopsis. The 11th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Berlin, Germany. 2004.

  9. Hannoufa,A., Schafer,U.A., Gropp,G.G., and Epp,D. A Functional Genomics Analysis of The Phenylpropanoid Pathway in Arabidopsis . The Western Regional Meeting of The Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists, Saskatoon, SK. 2004.

  10. Hou,A., Tang,X., Nguyen,V., Tsang,E., and Cui,Y. Screening for Arabidopsis mutants affecting the expression of seed storage proteins. American Society Plant Biology Meeting, Buena Vista, Florida, USA, July 24-28. 2004.

  11. Hou,A., Lui,N., Catawatcharakul,N., Tang,X., Nguyen,V., Keller W, Tsang,E., and Cui,Y. Two Naturally occurring deletion mutants of 12S seed storage proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana. American Society of Plant Biology, Seattle, Washington, July 16 -20. 2005.

  12. Jingyu,X., Mietkiewska,E., Francis,T., Giblin,E.M., and Taylor,D.C. Cloning, Characterization and Study of Functional Motifs of a Diacylglycerol Acyltransferase from Tropaeolum majus. Third Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop, Saskatoon, Sask.August 28-31. 2005.

  13. Koh,K., Madsen,D., and Nowak,J. Bioinformatics of the design and development of a Brassica napus seed microarray. 2nd Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop, Quebec City, QB, August 29-September 1. 2004.

  14. Krochko,J., Meghna,E., Malik,R., Wang,F., Dirpaul,J., Rahman,M., Polowick,P., and Ferrie,A. Gene expression profiling of microspore embryogenesis in Brassica napus cv Topas' Functional Genomics of Gametic Embryogenesis. Copenhagen, KVL, May 27-28. 2005.

  15. Kushalappa,K., Risseeuw,E., Prakash,V., Xiang,D., Babic,V., Martienssen,R., Selvaraj,G., and Datla,R. Molecular and genetic interactions associated with functions of BP, AS1 and AS2 in Arabidopsis. 16th International Conference on Arabidopsis research, June 15-19, Madison, Wisconsin. 2005.

  16. Li,F., Tsang,E., and Cutler,A.J. A novel dehydrogenase gene promotes growth in Arabidopsis thaliana. 16th International Conference on Arabidopsis research, June 15-19, Madison, Wisconsin. 2005.

  17. Li,F., Tsang,E., and Cutler,A.J. A novel dehydrogenase/reductase gene promotes growth in Arabidopsis thaliana. Third Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop, Saskatoon, SK, August 28-31 and 16th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, June 15 - June 19. 2005.

  18. Li,F., Tsang,E., and Cutler,A.J. Comparing gene expression in germinating and non-germinating seeds of Brassica napus. Fifth Annual General Meeting of NRC Genomics Health Initiative 2, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 16-19. 2004.

  19. Li,F., Wu,X., Tsang,E., and Cutler,A.J. Gene expression during Brassica napus seed development under low water potential using Arabidopsis cDNA microarrays. 4th GHI/NRC Annual General Meeting, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, August 20-23. 2003.

  20. Li,F., Wu,X., Tsang,E., and Cutler,A.J. Gene expression in imbibed Brassica napus seeds. American Society Plant Biology Meeting, Buena Vista, Florida, USA, July 24-28. 2004.

  21. Malik,R., Wang,F., Dirpaul,J., Ferrie,A., Rahman,M., Polowick,P., and Krochko,J. Gene expression profiling of microspore embryogenesis in Brassica napus cv Topas. Plant Biology, ASPB, Seattle, Washington, July 16th-20th and 3rd Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, August 28th-31st. 2005.

  22. Malik,R., Wang,F., Dirpaul,J., Polowick,P., Ferrie,A., and Krochko,J. Microspore Embryogenesis in Brassica napus. Frontiers in Plant Sexual Reproduction II (FPSRII), Albany, New York, October 15th -17th and CSPP Western Regional Meeting, Dec 9th-10th. 2004.

  23. Mietkiewska,E., Giblin,E.M., Wang,S., Barton,D.L., Dirpaul,J., Brost,J.M., Katavic,V., and Taylor,D.C. Seed-specific heterologous expression of a nasturtium FAE gene in Arabidopsis results in an eight-fold increase in erucic acid content. 2nd Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop, Quebec City, QB, August 29-September 1. 2004.

  24. Nowak,J., Vijayan,K., Links,M., and Crosby,W. High performance computing in support of Bioinformatics. NRC Genome Sciences: 4th Annual Meeting of the Genomics & Health Initiative, Saskatoon, Canada, August 20-23. 2003.

  25. Prakash,V., Xiang,D., Keller W, Selvaraj,G., and Datla,R. Developmental and Genomic studies in Brassica embryogenesis. 2nd Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop, Quebec City, QB, August 29-September 1. 2004.

  26. Rahman,M., Ferrie,A., Cutler,A.J., Taylor,D.C., Abrams,S.R., and Krochko,J. A targeted cDNA microarray for studies of hormone signaling and plant development. 1st Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, August 23-26. 2003.

  27. Rahman,M., Koh,K., Dirpaul,J., Nelson,K.M., Zaharia,L.I., Sharpe,A., Nowak,J., Ferrie,A., Abrams,S.R., and Krochko,J. Abscisic acid signaling networks in seed storage product accumulation in microspore-derived embryos of Brassica napus using a targeted cDNA microarray. Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists, Edmonton, Alberta, June 15th-18th. 2005.

  28. Rahman,M., Ferrie,A., Cutler,A.J., Taylor,D.C., Abrams,S.R., and Krochko,J. Development of a targeted cDNA microarray for the dissection of abscisic acid signaling networks in seeds. 3rd AGM - NRC Genomics and Health Initiatives Program, Ottawa, Canada, August 8-10. 2002.

  29. Reaney,M. and Young . Using synchrotron-based X-ray imaging to examine canola seed anatomy and oil distribution. 20th Annual CAOCS Meeting. 2005.

  30. Wan,L., Xiang,D., Prakash,V., Yang,J., Olson,D.J., Wang,E., Datla,R., and Ross,A.R. Protein Expression Profiling in Developing Plant Embryos using 1-DE and Q-TOF LC-MS/MS. Proceedings of the 53rd American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference, San Antonio, TX, June 5-9. 2005.

  31. Wu,S., Gupta,J., Farah,S., Abrams,S.R., Keller W, Yang,A.-F., Allard,G., and Singh,J. Elucidating the mini-interactome of LEA proteins in Brassica napus. 2nd Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop, Quebec City, QB, Aug.29-Sep.1st. 2004.

  32. Wu,X., Cutler,A.J., and Tsang,E. Analysis of gene expression in Brassica napus during seed germination. PBI Symposium, Saskatoon, Sask.October 8-9. 2003.

  33. Wu,X., Li,F., Cutler,A.J., and Tsang,E. Gene expression in the germinating seeds of Brassica napus. Third Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop, Saskatoon, Sask.August 28-31, 2005.and .16th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research.University of Wisconsin, Madison, W.I.June 15 - June 19. 2005.

  34. Wu,X., Li,F., Cutler,A.J., and Tsang,E. Profiling gene expression in seed germination of Brassica napus using Arabidopsis cDNA microarray. Fifth Annual General Meeting of NRC Genomics Health Initiative 2, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.May 16-19, 2004 and American Society Plant Biology Meeting, Buena Vista, Florida.USA.July 24-28. 2004.

  35. Xiang,D., Li,F., Datla,R., Cutler,A.J., Georges,F., Tsang,E., Krochko,J., Selvaraj,G., Nowak,J., Koh,K., Klassen,D., Sebastien,J., Nantel,A., Bekkaoui,F., and Keller W . Development of Brassica seed cDNA microarray. Sixth Annual General Meeting of NRC Genomics Health Initiative 3, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.Sept.26-29, 2005.and Third Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop, Saskatoon, Sask.August 28-31,2005. 2005.

  36. Xiang,D., Venglat,D., Martin,M., Sarauer,B., Palmer CE, Keller W, Selvaraj,G., and Datla,R. Developmental and transcript profiling of embryogenesis in Brassica napus and related species. 1st . 2003.

  37. Xiang,D., Venglat,D., Wang,E., Kushalappa,K., Keller W, Selvaraj,G., and Datla,R. Gene expression patterns in embryo development of Brassica napus and Arabidopsis, Plant Genomes: From sequence to phenome. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York.USA . 2004.

  38. Young,L., Reaney,M., Westcott,N., Christensen,C., Chapman,D., Attenkofer,K., Terry,J., and Zhong,Z. Examining seed anatomy, metal composition and mutant phenotypes using XRF and DEI. CLS . 2004.

  39. Young,L. and Reaney,M. Mapping metal distribution in seeds of the model oilseed Arabidopsis thaliana using synchrotron-based X-ray fluorescence. 20t . 2005.

  40. Young,L. and Reaney,M. X-ray fluorescence mapping of metals in seeds. 88th Canadian Chemistry Conference, Saskatoon, SK . 2005.


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Rotary Club, June 2003

 

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