Dear All,
Greetings and best wishes for the New Year - 2014.
I am pleased to share that like earlier years, we have got an excellent panel of genomics-assisted breeding specialists for the workshop. Please find below the details and schedule of the workshop.
I invite you to participate in this workshop. Please save the date and schedule of the workshop in your calendar.
Looking forward to see you soon.
Many thanks and kind regards
Rajeev
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Genomics-Assisted Breeding workshop
Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2014
10:30 am - 12:40 pm
Location: Town and Country
10:30 AM - 10:35 AM
Welcome & Introduction
Rajeev Varshney, ICRISAT
10:35 AM - 10:55 AM
Genetic Architecture of Quantitative Disease Resistance Revealed By Genome-Wide Association Scan in Wheat
Eduard Akhunov, Kansas State University
10:55 AM - 11:15 AM
Genetic and Metabolic Marker-Based Prediction of Heterotic Traits in Arabidopsis and Maize
Thomas Altmann, IPK Gatersleben
11:15 AM - 11:35 AM
Breeding Informatics for Crop Improvement: Current Status and Prospects
Yunbi Xu, CIMMYT/CAAS
11:35 AM - 11:55 AM
Genomic Selection: Training Populations and GxE
Mark E Sorrells, Cornell University
11:55 AM - 12:15 PM ,
A Systems Biology Approach to Study Genotype Environment Interactions and Develop a Biomarker Based on Gene Expression in Sunflower
Nicolas Langlade, INRA LIPM
12:15 PM - 12:35 PM
Applying the Reference Genome to Cotton Breeding
Andrew H. Paterson, University of Georgia
12:35 PM - 12:40 PM
Summary & Wrap-up
Rajeev Varshney, ICRISAT
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Dr Rajeev K. Varshney, Principal Scientist (Applied Genomics)
Research Program Director- Grain Legumes &
Director, Centre of Excellence in Genomics (CEG)
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
and
Adjunct Professor (Plant Biology), The University of Western Australia
Mailing address:
Bldg # 300, Center of Excellence in Genomics (CEG)
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
Patancheru - 502 324, Greater Hyderabad, INDIA
Tel: 0091 40 30713305; Fax: 0091 40 3071 3074/ 3075
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