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August 28-31: 13th International Cereal Rust and Powdery Mildew Conference (same location) |
| Opening Session |
| Welcome: Ronnie Coffman, Vice-Chair, BGRI Jeanie Borlaug Laube, Chair BGRI Dr. |
| Keynote Presentation Mahmoud Solh, ICARDA, “The Growing Threat of Stripe Rust Epidemics Worldwide. |
| Session 1 (morning) Achieving Resistance to Rust |
| Dave Hodson, CIMMYT-Ethiopia “Tracking the Wheat Rust Pathogen” |
| Mike Pumphrey, Washington State University, USA “Stocking the Breeder’s Toolbox” |
| Sybil Hererra, CIMMYT-HQ “Achieving sustainable leaf rust control in durum wheat – what have we learnt and how to move forward” |
| R. |
| Amor Yahyaoui, CIMMYT-HQ “Training the Next Generation of Rust Workers” |
| Session 2 (afternoon) Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum Mentor Award Session “Strategies for durable rust resistance breeding in cereals” Chair: Lesley Boyd, 2011 WIT Mentor Award winner |
| Diane Saunders, Sainsbury Lab. |
| Beat Keller, University of Zurich, Switzerland. |
| Ravi Singh, CIMMYT, Mexico “Pros and cons of major R-gene vs. |
| Brande Wulff, Sainsbury Lab. |
| Session 3 (evening session): Panel Discussion: Are we Ready for Biotech Wheat? Moderator: Richard Michelmore |
| Panelists: Michael Lassner, VP Trait Discovery and Technology, DuPont Agricultural Biotechnology Peggy Lemaux, University of California, Berkeley Ian Edwards, Edstar Genetics Pty Ltd. Claire Cajacob, Global Wheat Technology Lead, Monsanto Company |
| Cocktail and appetizers cont. |
| Session 4. Moderator: Iago Lowe Hale, University of New Hampshire |
| Panelists: Yue Jin, Cereal Disease Laboratory USDA-ARS Ruth Wanyera, Kenyan Agricultural Research Institute- Njoro Getaneh Woldeab, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research- Ambo Kumarse Nazari, ICARDA Anna Berlin, Uppsala University, Sweden ZS Kang, Northwest Sci-tech University of Agriculture and Forestry, China Ekatarina Skolotneva, Lomonosov State University |
| Session 5. |
| Speakers TBD |
| Session 6. Moderator: Amor Yahyaoui, CIMMYT-Mexico |
| Mr. Makada Mohammed, Ethiopia Mr. TBD, China |
| Session 7. |
| Catherine Feuillet, INRA Clermont- Ferrond, France “The wheat genome sequence: a foundation for accelerating improvement of bread wheat” |
| Dr John Rathjen, Australia National University “Identification and characterisation of effector genes from wheat stripe rust” |
| Yu-Cai Liao, Huazhong Agricultural University, China “Antibody-mediated protection of plants against Fusarium pathogens” |
| Session 8. |
| Meeting wrap-up: Matt Rouse, Cereal Disease Laboratory USDA-ARS |
| Closing remarks: Ronnie Coffman, Vice-chair, BGRI Vijay, Sathguru Foundation, India Jeanie Borlaug, Chair BGRI |
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