BGRI 2015 Agenda
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Day 1 Thursday 17 September | |
| Session 1: Workshop Opening and Welcome | |
| 16:00 | Welcome: Ronnie Coffman, Vice Chair, BGRI; Jeanie Borlaug Laube, Chair, BGRI Remarks:Robert Park, University of Sydney, Australia; Katherine Kahn, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA |
| Keynote: BGRI 2015: How far have we come? Robert McIntosh, University of Sydney, Australia | |
| Session 2: PBI and the World: The Plant Breeding Institute: Developing generations of world leaders in rust research | |
| 16:55 | Moderators: Sanjaya Rajaram, ICARDA (ret.) and Resource Seed Mexicana; Colin Wellings, University of Sydney, Australia Panelists: Davinder Singh, University of Sydney, Australia; Sridhar Bhavani, CIMMYT, Kenya; Kumarse Nazari, ICARDA, Iran; Eric Huttner, ACIAR, Australia, Naeela Qureshi, University of Sydney, Pakistan |
| 18:00 | Remarks: The Hon Niall Blair MLC, Minister for Primary Industries, Minister for Lands and Water, Australia |
| Welcome Reception and Poster Session | |
| 19:30-21:30 | Reception |
| 19:45-20:30 | Odd-numbered posters attended |
| 20:30-21:15 | Even-numbered posters attended |
Day 2 Friday 18 September | |
| 08:15 | Announcements |
| 08:45 | Morning Keynote: Edgar S. McFadden: Innovator of wheat improvement Kevin Kephart, South Dakota State University, USA |
| Session 3: Gene Stewardship | |
| 09:15 | Keynote: Durable rust resistance: From gene to paddock, continent and beyond Robert Park, University of Sydney, Australia |
| 09:35 | Gene Stewardship Award Ceremony, presented by Ronnie Coffman, Vice Chair BGRI |
| 10:05 | Coffee/Tea Break |
| 10:25 | Training agricultural scientists for a more globalized world: Monsanto’s Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program after 7 years Edward Runge, Texas A&M University, USA |
| Session 4: New Sources of Resistance Chair: Ian Dundas, University of Adelaide, Australia | |
| 10:40 | Capturing new genetic variation for rust resistance among the Watkins collection of pre-Green Revolution wheats: Discovery to deployment and cloning Urmil Bansal, University of Sydney, Australia |
| 11:00 | The cereal Mla locus is a rich source of effective resistance genes: cloning the Sr50 gene from rye Rohit Mago, CSIRO, Australia |
| 11:20 | Contribution of environment and pathogen race to effectiveness of adult plant resistance to wheat stem rust Matthew Rouse, USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Lab, USA |
| 11:50 | Q&A |
| 12:10 | Lunch |
| Session 5: Surveillance Chair: Sajid Ali, University of Agriculture, Pakistan | |
| 13:10 | Keynote: Three principles for more informative virulence surveys of cereal rusts Gene Milus, University of Arkansas |
| 13:40 | A decade of stem rust surveillance: How far have we come and where are we going? David Hodson, CIMMYT-Ethiopia |
| 14:00 | Detection of significant new races of the wheat stem rust pathogen in Africa and Europe Mogens Hovmoller, Aarhus University, Denmark |
| 14:20 | Detection of Ug99 (TTKSK) race of stem rust fungus in Egypt Atef Shahin, Agricultural Research Centre, Egypt |
| 14:40 | Q&A |
| 15:00 | Coffee/Tea Break |
| 15:20 | New variants in the Ug99 race group found in Kenya in 2013 and 2014 Maria Newcombe, University of Arizona, USA |
| 15:50 | Rapid isolation and increase of virulent Pgt races and evaluation of germplasm in single-race field nurseries in Ethiopia Endale Hailu, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research |
| 16:10 | Quantification of atmospheric dispersion and identification of likely airborne transmission routes of emerging strains of wheat stem rust Marcel Meyer, University of Cambridge, UK |
| 19:00-19:20 | Group Photo |
| 19:30-21:30 | Evening Reception and Poster Session |
| 19:45-20:30 | Even-numbered posters attended |
| 20:30-21:15 | Odd-numbered posters attended |
Day 3 Saturday 19 September | |
| 08:15 | Announcements |
| 08:30 | Morning Keynote: Innovation for sustainable farming practices: Turning the potential into yield, income and reduced risks Bram Govaerts, CIMMYT-Mexico @BramACCIMMYT |
| Session 6: Yellow Rust Chair: Evans Lagudah, CSIRO Plant Industry, Australia | |
| 09:05 | An integrated genomics approach to combat the wheat yellow rust pathogen Cristobal Uauy, John Innes Centre, UK @CristobalUauy |
| 09:25 | Segregation for aggressiveness in sexual offspring of the yellow rust pathogen Puccinia striiformis Chris Khadgi Sørensen, Aarhus University, Denmark |
| 09:45 | Coffee/Tea Break |
| 10:05 | Placement of South African stripe rust in a global context and development of diagnostic tools for genotyping field samples Hester van Schalkwyk, University of the Free State, South Africa |
| 10:25 | Metabolomics and plant physiology during the wheat-stripe rust interaction Veronica Roman-Reyna, Australian National University @xocolatl_vrr |
| 10:45 | Q&A |
| Session 7: Women in Triticum | |
| 11:05 | Keynote: Wheat and the role of gender in the developing world Martin Kropff, Director General, CIMMYT @KropffMartin |
| 11:35 | WIT Awards Ceremony, Awards presented by Jeanie Borlaug Laube, Chair, BGRI; Introductions by Lesley Boyd, NIAB, UK |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| Session 8: Breeding Chair: Maricelis Acevedo, North Dakota State University, USA | |
| 13:00 | Keynote: Australian wheat breeding: Trends, traps and rainbows Tresslyn Walmsley, Intergrain, Australia @TressWalmsley |
| 13:30 | Breeding durable adult plant resistance to stem rust in spring wheat: Progress made in a decade since the launch of the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative Sridhar Bhavani, CIMMYT-Kenya |
| 13:50 | Using “speed breeding” to harness rust resistance: Faster, cheaper and easier Lee Hickey, The University of Queensland, Australia @DrHikov |
| 14:10 | Phenotyping adult plant resistance to leaf rust in wheat under accelerated growth conditions Adnan Riaz, The University of Queensland, Australia @Adnanriaz7 |
| 14:30 | Implications of new technologies for durability Jessica Rutkoski, Cornell University/CIMMYT-Mexico @JRutkoski |
| 14:50 | Q&A |
| 15:10 | Coffee/Tea Break |
| Session 9: BGRI Research Awards and Workshop Closing Chair: Ronnie Coffman, Vice Chair BGRI | |
| 15:30 | 2015 BGRI Workshop Poster Awards and Graduate Student Research Award Presented by Zak Pretorius, University of the Free State, South Africa |
| 16:00 | Workshop Summaries Lee Hickey, University of Queensland, Australia; Cristobal Uauy, John Innes Centre, UK; Jessica Rutkoski, Cornell/CIMMYT, Mexico |
| 16:30 | Concluding Remarks Robert Park, University of Sydney, Australia |
| 16:45 | Closing Ronnie Coffman, Vice Chair BGRI |
Day 4 Sunday 20 September FIELD DAY to Plant Breeding Institute | |
| 08:30-09:00 | Departure from hotel (staggered times) |
| 10:30-11:15 | Welcome and Morning tea |
| 11:15-12:00 | Overview: Robert Park, University of Sydney, Australia |
| 12:00-13:30 | Greenhouse, lab and field tours |
| 13:30-14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 | Greenhouse, lab and field tours resume |
| 16:00 | Departure |
| 17:15 | Arrive at hotel |