| Wednesday 17 September |
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Welcome |
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| 4:00 pm |
Registration opens |
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| 6:00 pm |
Welcome Reception |
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| 8:00 pm |
Guest lecture: A botanist's guide to the
natural history of the Pacific Northwest |
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David Dalton (Reed College, Portland, Oregon) |
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| Thursday 18 September |
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| 8:00 am |
Symposium goals and overview |
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Steve Strauss (Oregon State University, OR,
USA) |
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Session 1: The landscape Moderator
D. Flavell |
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| 08:30 am |
Harnessing the new sciences
in support of agriculture in the
developing world |
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Deborah Delmer (Rockefeller Foundation,
retired, NY, USA) |
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| 9:00 am |
How biotechnology can enable agriculture
to mitigate climate change |
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Steven D. Savage and John Vendeland (Cirrus
Partners, CA, USA) |
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| 9:30 am |
Breeding genomics |
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Susan McCouch (Cornell University,
NY, USA)
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| 10:00 am |
Roots and drought and breeding better crops
Adam Price (University of Aberdeen, UK) |
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| BREAK |
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| 11:00 am |
The use of genetic principles
for crop improvement |
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Scott Tingey (Dupont Corporation,
DE, USA) |
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| 11:30 am |
Integrating breeding &
biotechnologies |
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Tom Adams (Monsanto, MO, USA)
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| 12:00 pm |
The iPlant collaborative
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Steve Goff (University of Arizona,
AZ, USA) |
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| Lunch |
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Session 2: Science inroads Moderator
R. Amasino |
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| 1:30 pm |
Next generation genomic technologies for
gene mining and
functional genomics: Issues of scope, scale and service |
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Jeff Bennetzen (University of Georgia, GA, USA) |
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| 2:00 pm |
Creating tools for the control of transgene
integration and for
genome editing in plant species |
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Tzvi Tzfira (University of Michigan, MI, USA) |
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| 2:30 pm |
New transcription factor based technology
& tools for future
crop improvement |
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Oliver Ratcliffe & Neal Gutterson (Mendel
Biotechnologies, CA, USA) |
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| BREAK |
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| 3:30 pm |
Small RNAs |
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Rob Martienssen (Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory,
NY, USA) |
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| 4:00 pm |
The pleiotropic hypothesis of heterosis |
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Luca Comai (University of California-Davis,
CA, USA) |
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| 4:30 pm |
The importance of statistics in the era
of 'omics |
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Rebecca Doerge (Purdue University, IN, USA) |
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| 5:00 pm |
200 million years of angiosperm genome
evolution |
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Daniel Rokhsar (US Dept. of Energy, USA) |
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| 6:00 pm |
Poster session / reception |
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| 7:00 pm |
Dinner |
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Evening lecture
Moderator
H. Klee |
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| 8:30 pm |
Gates Foundation approaches |
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Robert Horsch (Gates Foundation, Washington, WA,
USA) |
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| Friday 19 September |
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Session 3: Traits and physiology
Moderator R. Jorgensen |
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| 8:30 am |
Understanding and modifying
flowering |
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Richard Amasino (University of
Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA) |
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| 9:00 am |
Fruits |
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Harry Klee (University of Florida,
FL, USA) |
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9:30 am |
Toward a systems level understanding
of abiotic stress
tolerance for applications in agriculture |
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Michael Thomashow (Michigan State University,MI,
USA) |
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| 10:00 am |
The challenges of phenotyping technologies
for plant
biotechnology
Pierre Lejeune (CropDesign NV, Ghent, Belgium) |
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| BREAK |
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11:00 am |
Role of pathogen effector proteins
in plant innate immunity |
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Brian Staskawicz (University of California-Berkeley,
CA, USA) |
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11:30 am |
Evolution of adaptive traits |
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John Willis (Duke University, NC, USA) |
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12:00 am |
Breeding realities |
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Erik Legg (Syngenta Biotechnology Inc.,
NC, USA) |
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| LUNCH |
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Session 4: Putting it together
Moderator S. Strauss |
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| 1:30 pm |
Genetic engineering novel
crop plants: unlimited horizons |
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Robert Goldberg (University of
California-Los Angeles, CA, USA) |
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| 2:00 pm |
Development of energy crops
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Chris Somerville (Carnergie Institute of
Plant Research, CA, USA) |
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2:30 pm |
Human and institutional drivers for
realizing crop
improvement |
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Richard
Flavell (Ceres Inc., CA, USA) |
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| BREAK |
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| 3:30 pm |
Panel discussion: Conference
themes and messages |
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Amasino, Klee, Jorgensen, Flavell,
Freedman, Strauss |
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| 6:00 pm |
Reception |
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| 7:00 pm |
Dinner |
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| Saturday 20 September |
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Depart |
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