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ORGANIZATION OF EVENTS:

> Symposia - "Genotoxicity and Carcinogennicity" in SETAC Europe 17th Annual Meeting - 20th to 24th May 2007, Porto, Portugal

SETAC

POSTER:

> Lopes et al. Detection of microsatellite instability in Cd-exposed mice

> Silva et al. Evaluation of aluminium genotoxicityon Secale cereale L. apical root cells after short term exposures.

> Ferreira et al. Genotoxicity assesment by flow cytometry in plants exopsed to Chromium.

> Monteiro et al. Assesment of ploidy stability by flow cytometry in plants chronic expossed to Cadmium.

PARTICIPATION IN EVENTS:

> ComBio2008 - 21 to 25th of September 2008, Camberra, Australia.

POSTER:

Rodriguez et al. Chloroplast functionality assessment by FCM

Fernandes et al. Cell cycle dynamics in embryogenic and non-embryogenic callus of Quercus suber

> European Cytometry Network Initiative Meeting - 28 and 29th of February 2008, Heidelberg, Germany.

> 1º Encontro da plataforma nacional de genómica funcional em plantas - 12 and 13th of July 2007, Faro, Portugal.

POSTER:

> Pinto et al. Somatic embryogenesis and plant development in Quercus suber and Eucalyptus globulus

OTHER EVENTS:

> PhD Thesis Public Defense: João Loureiro (27th of April): "Flow cytometry approaches to study plant genome."

MANUSCRIPTS:

> forthcoming

> Pedro Fernandes, Eleazar Rodriguez, Glória Pinto, Isabel Roldán-Ruiz, Marc De Loose and Conceição Santos. 2008. Cryopreservation of Quercus suber somatic embryos by encapsulation-dehydration and evaluation of genetic stability

Tree Physiology (in press)

> Brito G, Loureiro J, Lopes T, Rodriguez E, Santos C. 2007. Genetic characterisation of olive trees from Madeira Archipelago using flow cytometry and microsatellite markers

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution (in press)

> Loureiro J, Rodriguez E, Gomes A, Santos C. 2007. Genome size estimations on Ulmus minor Mill., Ulmus glabra Huds. and Celtis australis L. using flow cytometry

Plant Biology (in press)

> recently published

> Castro S, Loureiro J, Rodriguez E, Silveira P, Navarro L, Santos C. 2007. Evaluation of polysomaty and estimation of genome size in Polygala vayredae and P. calcarea using flow cytometry.

Plant Science 172: 1131-1137

Loureiro J, Capelo A, Brito G, Rodriguez E, Silva S, Pinto G, Santos C. 2007. Micropropagation of Juniperus phoenicea from adult plant explants and analysis of ploidy stability using flow cytometry.

Biologia Plantarum 51 (1):7-14

> Loureiro J, Rodriguez E, Costa A, Santos C. 2006. Nuclear DNA content estimations in wild olive (Olea europaea L. ssp. europaea var. sylvestris) and Portuguese cultivars of O. europaea using flow cytometry.

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 54:21-25

Plant flow cytometry web resources:

FLOWER: Plant DNA flow cytometry database

Blog: http://flowerdatabase.blogspot.com/
Forum: http://flowerdatabase.20.forumer.com/index.php

Flow Cytometry with Plant Cells (edited by J. Doležel, J. Greilhuber, and J. Suda).
The first comprehensive book on plant flow cytometry will be published by Wiley-VCH in February 2007

Book Content

Cytometry and Cytometers: Development and Growth (H.M. Shapiro)

Principles of Flow Cytometry (J.P. Robinson, G. Grégori)

Flow Cytometry in Plants (J. Doležel, J. Greilhuber, J. Suda)

Nuclear DNA Content Measurement (J. Greilhuber, E. Temsch, J. Loureiro)

Flow Cytometry and Ploidy: Applications in Plant Systematics, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (J. Suda, P. Kron, B.C. Husband, P. Trávníček)

Reproduction Mode Screening (F. Matzk)

Genome Size and its Uses: the Impact of Flow Cytometry (I.J. Leitch, M.D. Bennett)

DNA Base Composition of Plant Genomes (A. Meister, M. Barow)

Detection and Viability Assessment of Plant Pathogenic Micro-organisms using Flow Cytometry (J.H.W. Bergervoet, J.M. van der Wolf, J. Peters)

Protoplast Analysis using Flow Cytometry and Sorting (D.W. Galbraith)

Flow Cytometry of Chloroplasts (E. Pfündel, A. Meister)

DNA Flow Cytometry in Non-vascular Plants (H. Volgmayr)

Phytoplankton Analysis using Flow Cytometry (G.B.J. Dubelaar, R. Casotti, G.A. Tarran, I.C. Biegala)

Cell Cycle Analysis in Plants (M. Pfosser, Z. Magyar, L. Bögre)

Endopolyploidy in Plants and its Analysis by Flow Cytometry (M. Barow, G. Jovtchev)

Chromosome Analysis and Sorting (J. Doležel, M. Kubaláková, P. Suchánková, P. Kovářová, J. Bartoš, H. Šimková)

Analysis of Plant Gene Expression using Flow Cytometry and Sorting (D.W. Galbraith)

FLOWer: A Plant DNA Flow Cytometry Database (J. Loureiro, J. Suda, J. Doležel, C. Santos)

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