November 9, 2021
The IWGSC scientific workshop at PAG XXIX will take place on Saturday 8 January 2022 from 8:00 to 10:10 am.
The IWGSC has led the effort to develop a high quality, reference sequence of the large, complex (hexaploid), bread wheat genome: IWGSC RefSeq v1.0 and most recently IWGSC RefSeq v2.1 and annotation v2.1. This year's workshop will include presentations highlighting some of the significant advances in wheat genomics. As usual, the workshop also includes the IWGSC Early Career Award and travel stipend recipient with this year’s talk which is given to a young scientist nominated by anyone in the wheat community and selected by the IWGSC leadership in recognition of outstanding achievement.
International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium Workshop
Plant & Animal Genome XXIX
San Diego, CA, USA
Room: Town and Country A
Saturday 8 January 2022, 8:00 am to 10:10 am
Program Details
Organizers: Hikmet Budak and Kellye Eversole
8:00 am: Kellye Eversole, Welcoming remarks.
8:10 am: Ella Taagen, Cornell University. Challenges and Opportunities in Positional Cloning and Structural Variation in Polyploid Crops.
8:30 am: Xi Wang, BASF. Advancing the Use of Structural Variation in the Toolkit for Breeding and Trait Improvement in Wheat.
8:50 am: Katherine Running, North Dakota State University. Exploitation of Wheat Genomic Resources and Collaborations to Rapidly Clone Multiple Disease Susceptibility Genes.
9:10 am: Michael Hammond-Kosack, Rothamsted Research. Exploring the Diversity of Promoter and 5’UTR Sequences in Ancestral, Historic and Modern Wheat.
9:30 am: Akshaya Vasudevan, Agriculture and Agri‐Food Canada. Gene Expression Dynamics upon Allopolyploidization: Global Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Large-Scale Repression of the ‘D’ Subgenome in Synthetic Hexaploid Wheat.
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