Program

Program for Genetic Resources section meeting 2013
Pre-breeding – fishing in the gene pool


June 10: Arrival
Day 0, evening
    19:00-20:00 Welcome Party, City Hall, Stortorget in Malmö.


June 11
Day 1, morning

    08:15 Busses leaves from Gustav Adolf Torg and Comfort Hotel
    08:30 Registration
    At venue: Alnarpsgården, Sundsvägen 6, Alnarp
    09:15 Welcome and short introduction by Arni Bragason, NordGen, Sweden

    09:20 Eva Thörn, EUCARPIA, Plant Genetic Resource Section, Sweden
    09:25 Jose Vouillamoz,
EUCARPIA, Switzerland
 
Session 1: Genomics of genebanks
Chair: Anders Carlsson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
    09:30 Nilsson-Ehle KEYNOTE lecture "Genome wide association studies (GWAS) help develop blueprint for better utilizing natural variation in rice " funded by Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapet i Lund, by Susan McCouch, Cornell University, USA
    10:00 Genebanking in the sequencing era - Robbert van Treuren, Wageningen University and Research Center (WUR), The Netherlands
    10:20 Adaptation of oilseed rape, barley and Brassica rapa to the future climate and increased [CO2] - Rikke Bagger Jørgensen, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark
    10:40 Coffee break, 1st floor at the venue

Session 2: Food Security

Chair:
Isaak Rashal, University of Latvia, Latvia
    11:00 KEYNOTE "Genebanks and food security" by Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), The Philippines
    11:30 Seeds of Discovery (SeeD): An initiative to systematically explore and mobilize novel genetic variation into maize and wheat breeding programs - Sara Hearne, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico
    11:50 Exploiting the INRA breadwheat collection to sample accessions used in French BREEDWHEAT project - Audrey Didier, French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), France
    12:10 Enhancing Global Capacity for Pre-breeding - Chikelu Mba, FAO, Italy
    12:30 Lunch break, 1st floor at the venue

Day 1, afternoon
Session 3: Nutrition and Health: Genetic diversity for health and nutrition
Chair:
Külli Annamaa, Jõgeva Plant Breeding Institute, Estonia
     14:00 KEYNOTE "Genetic diversity for health and nutrition" by Hilde Nybom, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden
     14:30 A large scale association study for aroma wheat components in bread wheat - Jihad Orabi, University of Copenhagen (KU), Denmark
     14:50 Genotypic variations in cadmium concentration of winter wheat grain – an opportunity for healthier bread - Sonja Maric, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Croatia 
     15:10 Coffee break
, 1st floor at the venue
     15:45 PGR of oat for gluten-free diets - Igor Loskutov, N.I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry, Russia
     16:05 Italian grape genetic diversity evaluation and exploitation - Valeria Terzi, Genomics Research Center (CRA-GPG), Italy
    16:25 Poster Introductions
Jette Nydam Hansen, NordGen Sweden
    17:50 Busses to Malmö Comfort Hotel and Gustav Adolfs torg

Day 1, evening
Free time in Malmö


June 12
Day 2, morning
    08:30 Busses leaves from Gustav Adolf Torg and Comfort Hotel
Session 4: Crop wild relatives, multifunctional agriculture, climate change
Chair:
Johannes Engels, Bioversity International, Italy
    09:00 KEYNOTE "Wild relatives in prebreeding: Fishing in the genepool with dynamite" by Hannes Dempewolf, Global Crop Diversity Trust, Germany
     09:30 Extending use of the crop gene pool: developing national strategies for crop wild relative conservation and useNigel Maxted, University of Birmingham, England, UK
     09:50 Ecogeographical approaches to characterize CWR adaptive traits useful for crop adaptationJosé M. Iriondo, King Juan Carlos University, Spain
     10:10 Coffee break
, 1st floor at the venue

Session 5: Genetic resources and traits to address climate change
Chair:
Åsmund Bjørnstad, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB), Norway
    10:40 KEYNOTE "Genetic resources and traits to address climate change" by Andy Jarvis, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Colombia
     11:10 The Focused Identification of Germplasm Strategy (FIGS): An approach to pre-breeding for water-limited environmentsHamid Khazaei, University of Helsinki, Finland
     11:30 Gene hunting at the Carlsberg Laboratory employing historic barley mutantsMats Hansson, Carlsberg Laboratory, Denmark
     11:50 Abiotic stress tolerance in 138 barley accessions tested in the future Nordic climate – Cathrine Ingvordsen, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark
   12:10 Lunch break
, 1st floor at the venue

Day 2, afternoon
    13:15  Excursion (in 4 groups). Starting point outdoors at the venue
    16:00  Busses to
Malmö Comfort Hotel and Gustav Adolfs torg
Day 2, evening
    18:00 Malmö castle and conference dinner. Walking distance from hotels, ca 1.km.

June 13
Day 3, morning
    08:30 Busses leaves from Gustav Adolf Torg and Comfort Hotel

Session 6: Genetic endowments for reducing agriculture´s footprints
Chair:
Heiko Becker, The University of Göttingen, Germany
    09:00 KEYNOTE "Leveraging ecotypic diversity to improve breeding programmes in the forage grass Lolium perenne" by Matthew Hegarty, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK
    09:30  Nitrogen use efficiency indices in old and modern barley genotypesAri Rajala, MTT Agrifood Research, Finland
    09:50 Developing a European on farm conservation strategy for landracesValeria Negri, Università Studi Perugia, Italy
     10:10 Diversity in the perennial grasses species recommended for conventional and low input agriculture - Elzbieta Czembor, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute, Poland 
    10:30 Coffee break
, 1st floor at the venue

Session 7: Intellectual property management and genebanks
Chair:
Antonio Michele Stanca, Genomics Research Centre (CRA-GPG), Italy
     10:50 KEYNOTE "Access to genetic resources and plant breeding, the effects of IP and ABS obligations" by Anke van den Hurk, Plantum, The Netherlands
     11:20 The new Genebank CGIAR Research Program - Denise E. Costich, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico
      11:40 The impact of international agreements on genebank management in EuropeTheo van Hintum, Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands
12:00 Plant Genetic Resources: Characterization and Utilization: a journal with a futureRobert Koebner, CropGen International, England, UK
12:20 Lunch break
, 1st floor at the venue

Day 3, afternoon
Chair: Ulrike Lohwasser, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Germany
    13:30 Public Private Partnership in Pre-Breeding: Combining Knowledge from Field and from Laboratory for Pre-breeding in BarleyAhmed Jahoor, Nordic Seed, Denmark
     13:50 The Nordic Public-Privat Partnership (PPP) for pre-breeding in perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.)Odd Arne Rognli, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB), Norway
     14:10 Prebreeding for Future Challenges in Nordic ApplesDag Røen, Graminor AS, Norway
    14:30 Safety duplicating global ex-situ collections: Taxonomic and institutional representation in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault collectionOla Westengen, NordGen, Norway
    15:00 Closing words, Håkan Schroeder, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    15:15 Coffee break
, 1st floor at the venue
    15:45
  Busses to Malmö Comfort Hotel and Gustav Adolfs torg

 
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