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| Sunday, August 20 |
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| Arrivals |
Airport welcoming committee |
Airport/Hotel |
| 14:00-18:00 |
Conference Registration |
Don Sol Salon |
| 19:00-20:00 |
Cocktails (nationals drinks, snacks) |
Lobby - Don Alberto Salon |
| Open |
Dinner (on your own) |
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| Monday, August 21 |
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| 07:00-08:00 |
Breakfast |
Don Alberto Salon 1 |
| 07:30-08:30 |
Conference Registration |
Don Sol Salon |
Session One - Frontiers in Breeding for Complex Traits
Chair: Rex Bernardo |
| 08:30-08:40 |
Welcome and Opening Address |
Masa Iwanaga
CIMMYT |
| 08:40-08:50 |
University of Illinois Comments |
Robert A. Easter |
| 08:50-09:00 |
Iowa State University Comments |
Kendall R. Lamkey |
| 09:00-09:40 |
Keynote Address: History, Contribution, and Future of Quantitative Genetics in Plant Breeding |
Arnel R. Hallauer
Iowa State University |
| 09:40-10:20 |
Honoree Address: From Means to QTL: The Illinois Long-term Selection Experiment as a Case Study in Quantitative Genetics |
John W. Dudley
University of Illinois |
| 10:20-10:40 |
Coffee Break and Belated Registration |
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| 10:40-11:20 |
Marker-assisted Selection: Strategies for Identifying and Manipulating Novel and Functionally Important Alleles |
Steven J. Knapp
University of Georgia |
| 11:20-12:00 |
At the Interface of Genomics and Quantitative Genetics |
Bill Beavis
National Center for Genome Resources |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Customer and Consumer-based Plant Breeding for the 21st Century |
Bill Niebur
Pioneer Hi-Bred |
| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch (on your own) |
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Session Two - Plant Breeding Education
Sponsored by the University of Illinois and Iowa State University
Chair: Kendall Lamkey |
| 14:00-14:40 |
Education and Preparation of Plant Breeders for Careers in Global Crop Improvement |
Fred Bliss
Seminis Vegetable Seeds and University of California-Davis |
| 14:40-15:20 |
Plant Breeding and Related Biotechnology Assessment: Strengths and Needs in the Developing World |
Elcio Guimaraes
FAO, Rome |
| 15:20-16:00 |
NOVA University: Plant Breeding Education in a University Without Walls |
Sven B. Andersen
The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark |
| 16:00-16:30 |
Question and Answer Session |
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| 16:30-17:00 |
Coffee Break |
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| 17:00-20:00 |
Poster Sessions |
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| Open |
Dinner (on your own) |
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| Tuesday, August 22 |
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| 07:00-08:30 |
Breakfast |
Don Alberto Salon 1 |
Session Three - Plant Pre-Breeding and Allelic Discovery
Sponsored by Generation Challenge Program
Chair: Rodomiro Ortiz
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| 09:00-09:40 |
Generation Challenge Programme: Unlocking Genetic Diversity in Crops |
Wayne Powell
NIAB, UK |
| 09:40-10:20 |
Bridging Genomics and Genetic Diversity: Association Between Gene Polymorphism and Trait Variation in Cereals |
Alain Charcosset
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France |
| 10:20-10:50 |
Coffee Break |
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| 10:50-11:30 |
Maize Anthracnose Resistance: Genetics and Breeding |
Sandra Milach
Pioneer Hi-Bred, Brazil |
| 11:30-12:10 |
Pre-breeding and Genetic Diversity in Field Beans |
Jorge Acosta-Gallegos
INIFAP, Mexico> |
| 12:10-12:40 |
Question and Answer Session |
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| 12:40-14:00 |
Lunch (on your own) |
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Session Four - Breeding for Quality, Nutritional, and Micronutrient Traits
Sponsored by HarvestPlus Challenge Program
Chair: Torbert Rocheford |
| 14:00-14:40 |
Breeding For Modified Fatty Acid Composition In Soybean |
Walter R. Fehr
Iowa State University |
| 14:40-15:20 |
HarvestPlus: Breeding Crops for Better Nutrition |
Wolfgang Pfeiffer
CGIAR Harvest Plus, Colombia |
| 15:20-15:50 |
Coffee Break |
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| 15:50-16:30 |
Breeding Progress and Prospects for Provitamin-A and Other Micronutrients in Rice |
Gerard Barry
IRRI |
| 16:30-17:00 |
Question and Answer Session |
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| 17:00-18:00 |
Poster Sessions |
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| Open |
Dinner (on your own) |
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| Wednesday, August 23 - Tentative Plan for CIMMYT Field Day |
| 05:30-6:45 |
Breakfast |
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| 06:45 |
Meet in hotel lobby to gather to be led to buses |
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| 07:00 |
Bus departure to CIMMYT Headquarters and INIFAP, El Batan
- Participants will be divided into Group A and Group B |
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| 08:00-10:30 |
Part One of Program - Group A at CIMMYT, Group B at INIFAP |
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Part One of Program ends - Groups will exchange between CIMMYT and INIFAP |
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| 11:00-13:00 |
Part Two of Program - Group A at INIFAP, Group B at CIMMYT |
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| 13:00-13:30 |
Part Two of Program ends |
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| 13:30-14:00 |
Both Groups move to CIMMYT Guest House Gardens |
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| 14:00-15:30 |
Luncheon
- Speech by Masa Iwanaga, CIMMYT Director General
- Other activities tentatively being planned |
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| 15:30-16:00 |
Performance of Traditional Mexican Dance |
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| 16:00 |
Board buses to Mexico City |
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| 17:00-17:30 |
Expected arrivals at Hotel Sheraton Centro Historico |
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| Open |
Dinner (on your own) |
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| Thursday, August 24 |
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| 07:00-08:30 |
Breakfast |
Don Alberto Salon 1 |
Session Five - Molecular Breeding
Sponsored by Syngenta
Chair: Sam Eathington |
| 09:00-09:40 |
Candidate Gene Approach to the Identification of Genes Underlying Quantitative Traits in Potato and for Diagnostic Marker Development |
Christiane Gebhardt
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany |
| 09:40-10:20 |
Molecular Breeding Using a Major QTL for Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Wheat |
James A. Anderson
University of Minnesota |
| 10:20-10:50 |
Coffee Break |
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| 10:50-11:30 |
QTL for Root Architecture and Drought Tolerance in Maize |
Roberto Tuberosa
University of Bologna |
| 11:30-12:10 |
Molecular Breeding to Enhance Ethanol Production from Corn and Sorghum Stover |
Wilfred Vermerris
University of Florida |
| 12:10-12:40 |
Question and Answer Session |
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| 12:40-14:00 |
Lunch (on your own) |
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Session Six - Cultivar Development Methodologies
Sponsored By: Renessen
Chair: Bruno Albrecht |
| 14:00-14:40 |
Breeding for Striga Resistance in Sorghum: Exploitation of an Intricate Host-Parasite Biology |
Gebisa Ejeta Purdue University |
| 14:40-15:20 |
Insights and Innovations from Wide Crosses in Plant Breeding |
Tom Osborn
Seminis Vegetable Seeds |
| 15:20-15:50 |
Coffee Break |
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| 15:50-16:30 |
Use of Double Haploids in Recurrent Selection and Hybrid Development in Maize |
André Gallais
Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon, France |
| 16:30-17:00 |
Question and Answer Session |
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| 17:00-18:00 |
Poster Sessions |
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| 20:00-20:30 |
Cocktails |
Lobby - Don Alberto Salon |
| 20:30 |
Gala Dinner (MC: John Dodds, CIMMYT)
Speakers:
Mexican Ag Minister (20 min)
Robb Fraley - Monsanto (15 min)
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Don Alberto Salon 1 |
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| Friday, August 25 |
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| 07:00-08:30 |
Breakfast |
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Session Seven - Cultivar Development Methodologies
Sponsored By: CIMMYT
Chair: Bruno Albrecht |
| 09:00-09:40 |
Environmental Classification in Plant Breeding |
Carlos Löffler
Pioneer Hi-Bred |
| 09:40-10:20 |
Breeding for Highly Variable Abiotic Stress Environments |
Marianne Banziger
CIMMYT, Kenya |
| 10:20-10:50 |
Coffee Break |
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| 10:50-11:30 |
Breeding for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Temperate Maize |
Elizabeth A. Lee
University of Guelph |
| 11:30-12:10 |
Use of Crop Physiology to Enhance Breeding for Stress Environments |
Matthew Reynolds
CIMMYT |
| 12:10-12:40 |
Question and Answer Session |
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| 12:40-14:00 |
Lunch (on your own) |
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Session Eight - Contributions from Prof. Dudley's Former Students
Sponsored By: University of Illinois
Chair: Kendall Lamkey |
| 14:00-14:30 |
Practical Uses Of Molecular Markers In A Commercial Breeding Program |
Sam Eathington
Monsanto Company |
| 14:30-15:00 |
Backcross Versus Forward Breeding in the Development of Transgenic Maize Hybrids: Theory and Practice |
Rita H. Mumm
GeneMax Services |
| 15:00-15:30 |
Apomixis for Cultivar Development in Tropical Forage Grasses |
John W. Miles
CIAT |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Question and Answer Session |
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| 16:00-16:30 |
Coffee Break |
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| 16:30-17:00 |
Symposium Summary |
Rex Bernardo
University of Minnesota |
| 17:00-17:30 |
Closing Ceremony (MC: Ted Crosbie, Monsanto)
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Ted Crosbie and John Schoper |
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| Open |
Dinner (on your own) |
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| Saturday, August 26 |
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| 07:00-08:30 |
Breakfast |
Don Alberto Salon 1 |
| Departures |
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