sorry for cross posting. --- Dear Colleagues: We would like to invite you to the "*Plant Genomics Minisymposium*" organized by Prof. Yves Van de Peer (PSB, VIB-UGent). This minisymposium is in conjunction with the ESF sponsored workshop "Generation and Analysis of Next Generation (NGS) Data<http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/ngs_workshop/>". You can find the up-to-date progresses and the future perspective in the field of plant genomics during this minisymposium. *Plant Genomics Minisymposium* * * *Date*: 27th of November (Tuesday), 2012 *Location*: Jozef Schell seminar room, VIB FVMS building, Technologiepark 927 Zwijnaarde * * *Program*: 9:00 – 9:45 *Sequencing complex plant genomes : the impact of New Sequencing Technologies.* Prof. Patrick Wincker (Genoscope, France) 9:45 – 10:30 *The past, present, and future of RNA sequencing and expression quantification.* Prof. Manfred Grabherr (Uppsala University, Sweden) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 – 11:45 *Journey through the past: 200 million years of plant evolution* Prof. Yves Van de Peer (Ghent University, Belgium) *Contact*: More information of this minisymposium please contact Dr. Yao-Cheng Lin (yalin@psb.vib-ugent.be) -- Yao-Cheng Lin Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Division VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, UGent Technologiepark 927, B-9052 Gent, Belgium TEL: +32 (0)9 33 13 821 GSM: +32 (0)472 480 968 http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be "Impact on farmers' fields, not learned publications, is the measure by which we will judge the value of our work." -- Norman Borlaug