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Program of 2nd Symposium on
Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources
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Saturday, April 24, 2010 |
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Registration and poster mounting |
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| 9.30-12.00 |
Opening Session |
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Welcome addresses
Opening keynote presentation
Building a global plant genetic resources system
 Emile Frison
Germplasm exploitation and ownership: who owns what
Orlando DePonti
From genomics to breeding: How to make the best use of genetic resources
Michele Morgante
Comparative genomics as a tool for trait dissection
Jerome Salse
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12.00-13.00 |
Opening ceremony |
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Lunch and Poster viewing |
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14.30-18.15 |
Harnessing plant diversity: from sequence to function |
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Arabidopsis natural variation as a model for the use of plant genetic resources
Maarten Koornneef
Sequencing wild soybean genome reveals soybean crop domestication history
Suk-Ha Lee
Genomic exploration of diversity in the genus Glycine (soybean) and related crop legumes
Scott Jackson
Sequencing the apple genome
Riccardo Velasco
Genomics-assisted allele mining and its integration to breeding in rice
Masahiro Yano
Short presentations selected from abstracts
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Congress keynote presentation |
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The sustenance of human livelihood via genetics and genetic resources
Gebisa Ejeta |
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Opening reception with local food and wine tasting; Poster viewing |
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| Sunday, April 25, 2010 |
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Harnessing plant diversity: genomics-based applications |
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Exploiting genetic resources for plant breeding in the 21st century
Richard Visser
Genomics approaches to unravel the genetic basis of heterosis
Albrecht Melchinger
Multiple scale analysis of genetic diversity in sorghum
Jean Christophe Glaszman
Genetic association mapping of maize germplasm resources
Antoni Rafalski
Toward the fine mapping of Plum Pox Virus (Sharka) resistance QTLs from two different sources in apricot
Stefano Tartarini
Short presentations selected from abstracts
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Lunch and Poster viewing |
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Genomics of Triticeae genetic resources
(with the support of COST Action FA0604 Tritigen WG 1) |
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Mining Triticeae genes with the aid of Brachypodium
Alan Schulman
Evolutionary analysis of wild and cultivated barley genetic resources
Karl Schmid
Functional diversification of transcription factors for the formation of barley spikes
Takao Komatsuda
Genome-wide patterns of SNP variation in polyploid wheat
Eduard Akhunov
Manipulating the resolution of whole genome association scans in barley using stratified germplasm collections.
Robbie Waugh
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Round table discussion: Educating a new generation of plant breeders
Moderator: Elcio Guimaraes
Speakers: Zoltan Bedo, Léon Broers, Sam Eathington, Gebisa Ejeta, Albrecht Melchinger,Alain Murigneaux, Richard Visser |
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| Monday, April 26, 2010 |
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Genomics for increased sustainability of Triticeae crops production
(with the partial support of COST Action FA0604 Tritigen WG 1) |
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Core collections-based germplasm enhancement, breeding and gene discovery in wheat
Jia Jizeng
Genetic and genomics tools for utilizing diversity in wheat and barley
Peter Langridge
Wild emmer wheat genetic resources: from genetic diversity to map-based cloning for increased sustainability
of Triticeae crops
Tzion Fahima
Allelic diversity of fungal disease resistance genes in wheat
Beat Keller
Converging evidence for genes of basal defense in barley
Patrick Schweizer
Short presentations selected from abstracts
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13.00-14.30 |
Lunch and Poster viewing
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Genomics-assisted crop improvement for food security in developing countries
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Leveraging plant genetic resources for Africa
David Bergvinson
Genomics-assisted breeding in semi-arid tropic legume crops
Rajeev Varshney
The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative: Reducing the genetic vulnerability of wheat to rust
Sarah Davidson
A doctoral program to harness the value of genetic resources in developing countries
Enrico Porceddu
Short presentations selected from abstracts
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Social dinner |
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| Tuesday, April 27, 2010 |
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Genetic resources for nutritional quality |
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Enhancing nutritional quality in crops
Joe Tohme
Improving the health benefit of wheat
Peter Shewry
Nutrigenomics: New functions for "old" molecules
Fabio Virgili
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Lunch and Poster viewing |
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The next challenges |
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Precision phenotyping: New insights into plant structure and function from non-invasive methods
Uli Schurr
Metabolomics: Tools and applications
Lothar Willmitzer
Understanding epiallele formation and inheritance in response to environmental cues in plants
Serena Varotto
Perspectives of plant genomes analysis
Giorgio Valle
New crops for biofuel production
Richard Flavell |
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Closing session |
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EU-funded research opportunities on genomics of plant genetic resources
EU Official (TBA)
Closing keynote presentation.
Exploiting the diversity of crop plants: Present state and future challenges
 Andreas Graner
Closing remarks
Francesco Salamini
Presentation of the next venue for GPGR3
Note: a coffee break service will be available during the whole event
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