Scientific Program

Program in Detail

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
 Registration at Hotel lobby - Delegates will pick up their welcome pack there

Wednesday, 1 September 2010
07:30-08:30Registration
08:30-08:50Opening Ceremony
Chair: Xifeng Gong (CAAS, China)
Speakers:
  • Zhensheng Li (CAS, China)
  • Huqu Zhai (CAAS, China)
  • Catherine Feuillet (INRA, France)
AMInvited Lectures
Chair: Jizeng Jia (CAAS, China)
  • 09:00-09:40 Mark Sorrells (Cornell U., USA)
    Molecular breeding strategies: Where are we headed
  • 09:40-10:20 Bin Han (NCGR, China)
    Large-scale genome sequencing based genotyping and genome-wide association studies in rice
  • 10:20-10:45 Photo and Coffee Break
Session 1. Structural and Functional Genomics
Chairs: Rudi Appels and Daowen Wang
  • 10:45-11:10 Jizeng Jia (CAAS, China)
    Gene sketch of Ae. tauschii, the D genome donor of common wheat
  • 11:10-11:35 Rudi Appels (Murdoch U., AUS)
    Structure-function studies in the wheat genome
  • 11:35-11:55 Jaroslav Dolezel (Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Republic)
    Reducing the wheat genome complexity by chromosome flow sorting: ten years after
12:00-13:30Lunch
PMChairs: Jan Dvorak and Yasunari Ogihara
  • 13:30-13:55 Jan Dvorak (U. California, USA)
    Physical mapping and sequencing of the Ae. tauschii genome: Contribution to the understanding of the structure and evolution of Triticeae genomes
  • 13:55-14:20 Yongqiang Gu (USDA-ARS, USA)
    Construction of high-resolution radiation hybrid-based physical maps for the large and complex wheat genome
  • 14:20-14:45 Andre Laroche (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada)
    RNA-Seq of triticale and rye for constructing a transcriptome reference set
  • 14:45-15:00 Paramjit Khurana (U. Delhi South Campus, India)
    Expression profiling for abiotic stress tolerance during embryogenesis in wheat
  • 15:00-15:15 Hirokazu Handa (National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan)
    Barley CO-like gene, HvCO9, is a negative regulator of flowering in barley; Functional diversification of CO-like gene family in cereal crops

  • 15:15-15:35 Coffee break

Chairs: Nils Stein and Aimin Zhang
  • 15:35-16:00 Yasunari Ogihara (Yokohama City U., Japan)
    Large scale collection, analysis and utilization of EST in wheat: Excellent genomic resource for functional genomics
  • 16:00-16:25 Nils Stein (IPK, Germany)
    The barley genome as revealed by chromosomal genomics
  • 16:25-16:50 Etienne Paux (INRA, France)
    The Wheat Genome Project: Laying the foundation for a paradigm shift in wheat breeding
  • 16:50-17:05 Philippe Romain (INRA, France)
    A pilot project to assess the efficiency of whole genome profiling for physical mapping and sequencing the wheat genome

  • 17:05-17:25 Discussion
Chair: Catherine Feuillet (INRA, France)
Topic: Triticeae genome sequencing
17:30-19:30IWGSC Coordinating Committee Meeting
19:30-21:00Welcome Reception

Thursday, 2 September 2010
AMSession 2: Genomic Diversity and Evolution
Chairs: Beat Keller and Xueyong Zhang
  • 08:00-08:25 Beat Keller (U. Zurich, Switzerland)
    Molecular basis of "gene movement" and erosion of colinearity in grass genomes
  • 08:25-08:50 Bikram Gill (Kansas State U., USA)
    Nature of mutation and phenotypic variation in polyploid wheat
  • 08:50-09:05 Kerrie Forrest (Department of Primary Industries, AUS)
    Sequence characterisation of phenology genes in Australian barley germplasm
  • 09:05-09:20 Lifeng Gao (CAAS, China)
    Genome-wide search for selection signals during domestication and improvement in wheat
  • 09:20-09:35 Quansah Lydia (Ben Gurion U. of the Negev, Isreal)
    Comparative transcriptomics and metabolomics analysis of two emmer wheat genotypes differing in drought response

  • 09:35-10:05 Coffee Break and Poster Session

Chairs: Bikram Gill and Lingrang Kong
  • 10:05-10:30 Eduard Akhunov (Kansas State U., USA)
    The patterns of SNP variation and linkage disequilibrium in wheat: Moving toward genome-wide association mapping
  • 10:30-10:55 Sylvie Cloutier (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada)
    Fine scale characterization of Lr34 on extensive germplasm collections, phenotyped populations and transgenic lines
  • 10:55-11:20 Thomas Wicker (University Zurich, Switzerland)
    Whole genome surveys of the wheat A, B and D genome donors, rye and barley provides fundamentals for a robust phylogeny of Triticeae
  • 11:20-11:35 Pierre Sourdille (INRA, France)
    Analysis of the meiotic recombination in a sequenced region of bread wheat
  • 11:35-11:50 Weining Song (Northest A&F U., China)
    One site vs. the world-genetic diversity of wild barley on a single site compared to that of barley varieties from different countries
  • 11:50-12:05 Zhiyong Liu (China Agricultural U., China)
    Rapid amplification and evolution of resistance gene analogies (RGAs) in wheat revealed by comparative genomics and sequencing analyses
12:05-13:30Lunch
PMChairs: Robbie Waugh and Zhengqiang Ma
  • 13:30-13:55 Roberto Tuberosa (U. of Bologna, Italy)
    Searching for QTLs to enhance yield stability in durum wheat
  • 13:55-14:20 Robbie Waugh (SCRI, UK)
    GWAS in barley
  • 14:20-14:35 Long Mao (CAAS, China)
    Transcriptomics analysis of H2O2 responses of wheat (T. aestivum L.) seedlings by mRNA Tag and small RNA sequencing uncovers distinctive roles of JA signaling in wheat powdery mildew resistance

  • 14:35-14:55 Discussion
Chair: Roberto Tuberosa (University of Bologna, Italy)
Topic: Genomic diversity and Haplotype

  • 14:55-15:15 Coffee Break
Session 3: Mapping and Cloning
Chairs: Cristobal Uauy and Zhiyong Liu
  • 15:15-15:40 Cristobal Uauy (JIC, UK)
    Fine mapping of the dominant Inhibitor of glaucousness 1 gene (Iw1) and its effects on grain filling and yield in the UK environment
  • 15:40-16:05 Wolfgang Spielmeyer (CSIRO, Australia)
    Durable rust resistance in wheat, are we there yet?
  • 16:05-16:30 Daowen Wang (CAS, China)
    A highly efficient strategy for isolating the deletion mutants of homoeologous genes in common wheat
  • 16:30-16:50 Maccaferri Marco (University of Bologna, Italy)
    Mapping and exploiting valuable resistant genes/QTLs for the main fungal pathogens affecting durum wheat through linkage and association approaches
  • 16:50-17:05 Chunji Liu (CSIRO, Australia)
    Different genes control resistance to Fusarium species infecting different wheat tissues
  • 17:05-17:20 Haitham Sayed (ICARDA, Syria)
    Localization of quantitative trait loci for agronomic characters important under drought conditions in spring barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)
  • 17:20-17:35 Xiaoquan Qi (CAS, China)
    Towards fine-mapping and cloning of a QTL for resistance to stripe rust in hexaploid wheat by use of a draft sequence from the D genome
    • 18:00-19:00Dinner
    19:00-21:00SNP Workshop

    Friday, 3 September 2010
    AMChairs: Wolfgang Spielmeyer and Weining Song
    • 08:00-08:25 Peter Langridge (ACPFG, Australia)
      Genetic and genomic approaches to improve abiotic stress tolerance in cereals
    • 08:25-08:50 Mats Hanson (Carlsberg Laboratory, Denmark)
      Cloning and characterization of mutated genes at the Carlsberg Laboratory
    • 08:50-09:15 Zhengqiang Ma (Nanjing Agricultural U., China)
      Genomics-based exploitation of genes conferring resistance to wheat Fusarium head blight and powdery mildew diseases
    • 09:15-09:30 Thorsten Schnurbusch (IPK, Germany)
      The boron toxicity tolerance locus Bo1 in bread wheat (T. aestivum L.) encodes a boron efflux-type transporter specific to the genus Aegilops
    • 09:30-09:45 Julien Bonneau (ACPFG, Australia)
      Genetic analysis of a targeted region associated with heat tolerance on chromosome 3B of Triticum aestivum

    • 09:45-10:05 Discussion
    Chair: Peter Langridge (ACPFG, Australia)
    Topic: Strategy of Triticeae gene cloning

    • 10:05-10:30 Coffee Break and Poster Session
    Session 4: Molecular Breeding
    Chairs: Mark Sorrells and Qixin Sun
    • 10:30-10:55 Zhonghu He (CAAS, China)
      Wheat breeding and application of molecular markers in China
    • 10:55-11:20 Susanne Dreisigacker (CIMMYT)
      Towards molecular breeding in CIMMYT wheat improvement
    • 11:20-11:35 Andrzej Kilian (DArT Pty Ltd, Australia)
      Genome profiling and information technologies in support of breeding
    • 11:35-11:50 Mehmet Cakir (Murdoch U., Australia)
      Molecular pre-breeding for Russian wheat aphid and Ug99 resistance in wheat and barley
    • 11:50-12:05 Jirui Wang (Sichuan Agricultural U., China)
      Adaptive evolution of α-amylase inhibitor genes with the association of insect and pre-harvest sprouting resistance
    12:05-13:30Lunch
    PMChairs: Susanne Dreisigacker and Zhonghu He
    • 13:30-13:55 Francis Ogbonnaya (ICARDA, Syria)
      Genome wide scans for loci that confer multiple root disease resistance in synthetic hexaploid wheat
    • 13:55-14:20 Anne-Marie Bochard (Limagrain, France)
      Implementation of MAS in a commercial barley breeding program
    • 14:20-14:35 Alma Kokhmetova (Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Kazakhstam)
      Marker assisted selection in breeding for wheat leaf and stripe rust resistance
    • 14:35-14:50 P.K. Gupta (Ch. Charan Singh U., India)
      Marker-assisted selection (MAS) for wheat breeding in India
    • 14:50-15:05 Yinghua Huang (USDA-ARS, USA)
      Assessment of genetic diversity and relationship among a collection of wheat germplasm with resistance to cereal aphids using molecular markers

    • 15:05-15:25 Coffee Break and Poster Session

    Chairs: Sylvie Cloutier and Ruilian Jing
    • 15:25-15:50 Qixin Sun (China Agricultural U., China)
      Cloning and characterization of non-coding RNAs in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
    • 15:50-16:05 Xueyong Zhang (CAAS, China)
      Identification and development of a functional marker of TaGW2 associated with grain weight in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
    • 16:05-16:20 Elena Salina (RAS, Russia)
      Application of marker assisted selection for transferring resistance genes from Triticum timopheevii to bread wheat
    • 16:20-16:35 Lanqin Xia (CAAS, China)
      Toward understanding the role of Viviparous-1 gene in wheat pre-harvest sprouting
    • 16:35-16:50 Zhongfu Ni (China Agricultural U., China)
      Towards the understanding of genetic, molecular and physiological basis of heterosis in wheat
    • 16:50-17:05 Jianli Chen (U. of Idaho, USA)
      Genome-wide identification of QTLs conferring high-temperature adult-plant (HTAP) resistance to stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) in wheat

    • 17:05-17:25 Discussion
    Chair: Mark Sorrells (Cornell U., USA)
    Topic: Wheat and barley molecular breeding
    18:00-19:00Dinner
    19:30-20:30Wheat Genomics of China, Committee Workshop

    Saturday, 4 September 2010
    AMSession 5: Bioinformatics and New Technologies
    Chairs: Catherine Feuillet and Huanmin Yang
    • 08:00-08:25 Huanming Yang (BGI, China)
      Sequencing and plant genomics
    • 08:25-08:50 Catherine Feuillet (INRA, France)
      TriAnnot V2.0 a user friendly web interface for monocot genomic sequences automatic annotation
    • 08:50-09:15 Christiane Hertz-Fowler (U. of Liverpool, UK)
      Mining the allohexaploid wheat genome for useful sequence polymorphisms
    • 09:15-09:30 Paul Berkman (U. of Queensland, Australia)
      Tools for visualizing and interrogating cereal genetic and genomic data
    • 09:30-09:45 Michael Alaux (INRA, France)
      The wheat physical map viewer
    • 09:45-10:00 Matthew Hayden (Department of Primary Industries Victoria, Australia)
      Towards developing a SNP marker resource for Australian wheat germplasm

    • 10:00-10:20 Coffee Break and Poster Session

    Chairs: Dave Edwards and Long Mao
    • 10:20-10:45 David Marshall (SCRI,UK)
      SCRI Visualization Tools: an Eagle Eye view of large cereal data
    • 10:45-11:10 Dave Edwards (Queensland U., ACPFG, Australia)
      Applying second-generation sequencing technology for the analysis of isolated wheat chromosomes
    • 11:10-11:25 Tsuyoshi Tanaka (National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan)
      Flowering Plant Gene Picker: A Web-based CDS prediction system by interspecies FLcDNA mapping
    • 11:25-11:40 Gary Barker (U. of Bristol, UK)
      SNP discovery and mapping from Illumina transcriptome data

      • 11:40-12:00 Discussion
      Chair: Dave Edward (Queensland U., ACPFG, Australia)
      Topic: Application of next generation in triticeae genomics
    12:00-13:30Lunch
    PMSession 6: Activity Report of International and National Program
    Chair: Catherine Feuillet
    • 13:30-13:45 Kellye Eversole (International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium, Eversole Associates)
      International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium activity report
    • 13:45-14:00 Nils Stein (IPK, Germany)
      International Barley Genome Sequencing Consortium activity report
    • 14:00-14:15 Eduard Akhunov (Kansas State U., USA)
      International Wheat SNP Working Group
    • 14:15-14:30 Jaroslav Dolezel (Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Republic)
      Key to all wheat chromosome sequencing
    • 14:30-14:45 Keith Edwards or Neil Hall
      UK SNP discovery grant in wheat
    • 14:45-15:00 Eva Bauer
      Rye activity
    • 15:00-15:15 Bikram Gill (Kansas State U., USA)
      TILLING populations
    15:15-15:45Closing Remark (Jizeng Jia)
    Announcement of the 21st ITMI (Catherine Feuillet)

    Instructions on Preparation of Posters

    The dimensions of the poster board are 100 cm wide × 245 cm high. The size of a poster should be limited to the dimensions of the poster board, preferably 90 cm wide × 120 cm high. See the Sample

    1. Allocate the top of the poster for the title and authors as stated on the submitted abstract.
    2. The main body of the poster normally includes: Introduction, Objectives, Methods, Results, and Conclusions. Please never put abstract on your poster.
      • The text and illustrations should be bold enough to be read from a distance of one meter.
      • The Introduction should contain 3 to 5 sentences outlining information necessary to understand the study and why it was done.
      • The objectives or aims of the study, the questions to be asked, or the hypothesis to be tested should be clearly stated in as few words as possible.
      • Outline your methods briefly. Provide details only for new methods or important modifications of older ones.
      • Results should be presented as graphs or charts. Provide a key to explain symbols or other details. You may also want to provide an interpretation of the results below each panel.
      • The conclusions and acknowledgements should be concise.
      • Please include essential references at the end of the content.
    3. The printed hard copy of the poster should be taken to the conference by the delegates, and will be posted in the poster area in the designated position according to the poster number.
    4. Adhesive tapes and scissors will be available for the hanging of posters.
    5. Authors who present the poster are required to stand by their poster during their poster session.
    6. Please remove your poster after the assigned date and time. The Organizing Committee will not be responsible for posters that are not removed on time.