1st Workshop on TritiGen COST action FA0604:
Triticeae genomics for the advancement of essential European crops
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Monday, October 1

8:00-8:45
Registration and poster set up
8:45-9:00
Welcome
 
 
Session 1: WG1: Tools for Assessing and Harvesting Genetic Diversity (DivGen)

Chairs: Karl Schmid and Hikmet Budak

09:00
Roberto Tuberosa: Genome-wide association mapping for grain yield and drought-related traits in a mini-core collection of elite durum wheat cultivars evaluated in Mediterranean environments
09:20
Andy Flavell: Genomics-Assisted Analysis and Exploitation of Barley Diversity - the EXBARDIV ERA-PG Project
09:40
Etienne Paux: Insertion site-based polymorphism: recycling the 'junk' from the wheat genome
10:00
Ana Casas: Linkage disequilibrium in the Spanish Barley Core Collection
10:20
P. Piffanelli: BARLEYSEL: Assessing domestication effects on candidate genes implicated in controlling frost resistance and malting quality
10:40
Viktor Korzun: Molecular markers and their applications in cereal breeding - from breeders point of view
11:00
Coffee Break and poster viewing
11:30
Hikmet Budak: Organelle genome variation and transient gene expression in the model grass species Brachypodium distachyon, accurate template for wheat and barley
11:50
Andras Balint: Mapping of QTLs for drought tolerance in barley at different developmental stages
12:10
Ahmet Yildirim: Genetic variations are still continuting among and between landraces of wheat in Turkey
12:30
Karl Schmid: Allele mining in wild and cultivated barley
12:50
General discussion
13:00-14:00
Lunch and poster viewing
 
 
Session 2: WG2: Accessing the Physical Genome for Sustainability and Quality (PhysGen)

Chairs: Pierre Sourdille and Nils Stein

14:00

Daniela Schulte: Status of the barley physical map project.

14:20

Robert Kofler: Advances on the 1RS physical map.

14:40

Katerina Pankova: Genetic, physiological and molecular analyses of wheat lines carrying flowering time genes on chromosome 3B substituted from the alternative wheat variety Ceska Presivka

15:00

Nikolai Christov: Identification of cDNAs involved in winter wheat cold acclimation process

15:20

Tzion Fahima: Unraveling the genetic basis of several qualitative and quantitative agronomic traits derived from wild emmer wheat.

15:40

Nicola Pecchioni: Identification and characterization of conserved orthologous markers between barley and Brachypodium.

16:00-16:30

Coffee break and poster viewing

16:30
Jaroslav Dolezel: Production of subgenomic BAC libraries and other recent activities related to chromosome sorting in cereals.
16:50
Kostya Kanyuka: Towards fine mapping of resistance genes to Septoria tritici leaf blotch in hexaploid and diploid wheat
17:10
Boulos Chalhoub: Comparative analysis among homoeologous wheat genomes through large scale sequencing.
17:30
Hélène Bergès: How to preserve, maintain and exploit plant genomic resources generated by international research.
17:50
General discussion
 
 
Session 3: WG 2A Bioinformatics for WG1 and WG2

Chair: David Marshall

18:00
Tatjana Sjakste: Functional significance of the structural rearrangements of candidate genes
18:20
Francois Sabot: Handle the junk - A unified classification system for eukaryotic TEs
18:40-19:00
Thomas Wicker: Sequencing a large genomic region in wheat
20:30
Workshop Dinner
 

Tuesday, October 2

 
 
Session 4: WG3: Implementation of Genomics Approaches for Understanding Cereal Traits

Chairs: Nils Rostoks and Hilde-Gunn Opsahl- Sorteberg

09:00

Hilde-Gunn Opsahl Sorteberg: Genes regulating seed development.

09:20

Laura Rossini: Candidate gene and functional genomics approaches for the molecular dissection of barley development.

09:40

Anette Moldestad: Changes in the proteome pattern during grain development of cereals.

10:00

Christine Finnie: Functional proteomics of barley seeds: Integration of the proteome with the genetic map, gene expression and enzyme activities.

10:20

Bill Thomas: Analysis of enzyme activities, wort sugars and barley malting quality.

10:40

Gabor Galiba: From QTLs to genes: Functional genomics of freezing tolerance in cereals.

11:00-11:30

Coffee Break and poster viewing

11:30
Marco Maccaferri: Two major QTLs on chromosomes 2BL and 3BS influence grain yield and other agronomic traits of durum wheat across a broad range of Mediterranean environments.
11:50
Luigi Cattivelli: Parallel pigment and transcriptomic analysis of barley albina and xantha mutants.
12:30
Barbara Steiner: Differential gene expression of wheat genotypes after Fusarium graminearum inoculation analyzed through cDNA-AFLPs
12:50-13:00
General discussion
13:00-14:00
Lunch and poster viewing
 
 
Session 5: WG 4 Functional Genomics for Testing and Validation of Candidate Genes (FuncGen)

Chairs: Søren Rasmussen and Patrizia Galeffi

14:00

Günther Schweizer. Mapping and marker development of different scald (Rhynchosporium secalis) resistance genes in barley

14:20

Nicolás Jouve: Characterization of genes involved in homologous recombination in Triticeae. Towards the characterization of the genes involved in gene targeting in Triticum

14:40

Petya K. Christova: Functional analysis of antifungal activities in a wheat multidomain cystatin TaMDC1

15:00

Gerhard Adam: Mechanisms of plants conferring resistance to xenobiotics

15:20

Ana-María Castillo: Application of tissue culture and biotechnology methods for plant breeding

15:40

Wendy Harwood: High-throughput Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of barley

16:00-16:30

Coffee break and poster viewing

16:30
Huw D Jones: Regulatory sequences for defining transgene expression in wheat
16:50
Dr Borislav Kobiljski: MAS in wheat – A new strategy proposal
17:10
Andy Phillips: The wheat TILLING to identify novel alleles of candidate genes
17:30
Valentina Talamè:. TILLmore: a reverse genetics resource for functional genomics in barley
17:50
General discussion
 
 
Session 6: WG 2A Bioinformatics for WG3 and WG4

Chair: Thomas Wicker

18:00
David Marshall: Where are all the genes in barley?
18:20
Christos Ouzounis: Functional Genomics: transcription, interactions, disease genes
18:40-19:00
Doreen Ware: Mathematical repeats and their uses for annotating plant genomes
 

Wednesday, October 3

 
 
Session 7: Joint session (5 WGs)

Chairs: Alan Schulman and Catherine Feuillet

09:00-10:30 Reports from the WG coordinators of the discussions and perspectives for each WG.
10:30-10:45 Catherine Feuillet: Report on the status of project applications to EU calls (FP7 and ERA-PG).
10:45-11:00

Concluding remarks from the Action's Chairs (Alan Schulman and Catherine Feuillet)

11:00-11:30
Coffee Break and poster viewing
11:30-13:30
Management Committee meeting
13:30-14:30
Lunch and transportation to Plant Gems 6
 
 
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