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 use – Nigel Maxted, University of Birmingham, England, UK 09:50 Ecogeographical approaches to characterize CWR adaptive traits useful for crop adaptation – José 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 environments – Hamid Khazaei, University of Helsinki, Finland 11:30 Gene hunting at the Carlsberg Laboratory employing historic barley mutants – Mats 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 genotypes – Ari Rajala, MTT Agrifood Research, Finland 09:50 Developing a European on farm conservation strategy for landraces – Valeria 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 Europe – Theo van Hintum, Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands 12:00 Plant Genetic Resources: Characterization and Utilization: a journal with a future – Robert 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 Barley – Ahmed 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 Apples – Dag Røen, Graminor AS, Norway 14:30 Safety duplicating global ex-situ collections: Taxonomic and institutional representation in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault collection – Ola 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 train info |