Scientific Programme

Tuesday February 2
12.00 - 19.00 Registration
14.30 - 15.00 Opening
Welcome by Dr. A. Touraev (Co-Chair, VIPCA)
Welcome by Prof. J. Snape (Co-Chair, VIPCA)
15.00 - 16.00 Keynote lecture: Koornneef, M (The Netherlands): Quantitative Genetics, Model Plants and Plant Breeding
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break

16.30 - 18.30 Session I. Doubled Haploids in Plant Breeding
Chairs: Geiger, H., Forster, B.
16.30 - 16.55 (+5) Geiger, H. (Germany): Experimental Basis of Using Doubled Haploids in Maize Breeding
17.00 - 17.25 (+5) Maruthachalam, R. (USA): Haploid Plants Produced Through Seeds by Centromere Manipulation
17.30 - 17.45 (+5) Forster, B.P. (UK): Haploid Production in Oil Palm: a Method using High-throughput Flow Cytometry
17.50 - 18.05 (+5) Shariatpanahi, M.E. (Iran): Effect of 2,4-D as an Inducer of Embyogenesis in Microspores of Brassica napus L.
18.10 - 18.25 (+5) Bakos, F. (Germany): Generation of Doubled Haploid Maize Plants Following Inductive Treatment of Isolated Immature Pollen
18.30 - 20.30 Welcome reception 

Wednesday February 3
08.00 - 18.30 Registration
Chairs: Ganal, M., Stich, B.
09.00 - 10.30 Session II. Molecular Markers and Marker Assisted Selection in Plant Breeding
09.00 - 09.25 (+5) Mackill, D.J. (The Philippines): Marker Assisted Plant Breeding for Precision Breeding: Examples from Rice
09.30 - 09.50 (+5) Ganal, M. W. (Germany): SNP identification in crop plant
09.55 - 10.10 (+5) Mammadov, J. (USA):  In silico Development of Resistance Gene Analog-Tagged SNP Markers and their Validation using High-Throughput GoldenGate Assay
10.15 - 10.25 (+5) Nixon, J.H. (Canada): Computer-assisted optimization of experimental designs for marker-accelerated backcrossing
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 - 12.30 Session III. Gene Mapping in Plant Breeding
Chairs: Ganal, M., Stich, B.
11.00 - 11.25 (+5) Stich, B. (Germany): Optimum allocation of resources for QTL detection using a nested association mapping strategy
11.30 - 11.50 (+5) Matthies, I. (Germany): Association Mapping in Barley - a Genome Wide and Candidate Gene Approach
11.55 - 12.10 (+5) Studer, B. (Denmark): "Blind Mapping" Based on High Resolution Melting Curve Analysis is a Novel Approach to Map Genic DNA Sequence Polymorphisms in Perennial Ryegrass
12.15 - 12.25 (+5)  Kollers, S. (Germany): Population structure in a collection of elite west european germplasm of hexaploid wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch and Poster Session Ia 

14.00 - 15.30 Session IV. Quantitative Genetics and Plant Breeding
Chairs: Mackill, D.J.
14.00 - 14.25 (+5) Letort, V. (France): Simulation of QTL detection for parameters of functional-structural plant models
14.30 - 14.50 (+5) Thomas, W. (UK): Genetic Mapping of Alcohol Yield, Grain Protein and Related Traits in Winter Wheat
14.55 - 15.10 (+5) Winter, P. (Germany): Bulked extremes superTag Digital Gene Expression (BE-STDGE) profiling for identification of cold-tolerance QTL in lentil
15.15 - 15.25 (+5) Burstin, J. (France): Diversity in Pisum sativum and comparative mapping with Medicago truncatula
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break 

16.00 -18.00 Session V. Plant Genetic Resources, Natural Variability, Heterosis
Chairs: Schwarzacher, T., Frascaroli, E.
16.00 - 16.20 (+5) Schwarzacher, T. (UK): Identifying and exploiting biodiversity in wild relatives of crops
16.25 - 16.45 (+5) Torres-Ruiz, R. A. (Germany): Towards the analysis of the impact of natural genetic variation on autotetraploid Arabidopsis thaliana
16.50 - 17.10 (+5) Frascaroli, E. (Italy): Detection and Characterization of QTL for Heterosis in Maize
17.15 - 17.30 (+5) George, G. (UK): Genotype by environment interaction in shoot branching
17.35 - 17.50 (+5) Freitag, N. (Switzerland): Genetic relationship, diversity and chilling tolerance of swiss maize landraces
18.00 - 20.00 Light Dinner, Poster session Ib 

Thursday February 4 
08.00 - 18.30 Registration
Chairs: Chase, C.D., Nasrallah, J.B.
09.00 - 10.30 Session VIa. Male Sterility 
09.00 - 09.25 (+5) Chase, C.D. (USA): Cytoplasmic male sterility: a window to the world of plant mitochondrial-nuclear interactions
09.30 - 09.55 (+5) Pelletier, G. (France): The molecular biology of cytoplasmically inherited male sterility and prospects for its engineering
10.00 - 10.10 (+5) Roitsch, T. (Austria): Induction of Male Sterility in Plants by Metabolic Engineering of the Carbohydrate Supply to Pollen and Restoration of Fertility
10.15 - 10.25 (+5) Lössl, A.G. (): Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) – Regulated by an inducible trans-activation system
10.30 - 11.00. Coffee break 

11.00 - 12.30 Session VIb. Crossing Barriers: Self Incompatibility
Chairs: Chase, C.D., Nasrallah, J.B.
11.00 - 11.25 (+5) Nasrallah, J.B. (USA): Self-incompatibility systems: barriers to self-fertilization in flowering plants
11.30 - 11.45 (+5) Mariette, S. (France): Genetic diversity and fitness in gametophytic self-incompatible and asexual
11.50 - 12.05 (+5) Valtueña, F.J. (Spain): Causes of self-sterility in Cytisus multiflorus and C. striatus (Leguminosae)
12.10 - 12.25 (+5) Szklarczyk, M. (Poland): Molecular analysis of homeotic male sterility caused by the Brassica Nigra cytoplasm in cauliflower
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch and Poster Session IIa 

14.00 - 15.30 Session VII. Alternative Breeding Technologies
Chairs: Snape, J., Fernie, A.R.
14.00 - 14.25 (+5) Snape, J. (UK): The Use of Composite Crosses for reduced input environments
14.30 - 14.45 (+5) Evert, J. (The Netherlands): Cisgenesis: a new method for introgression breeding
14.50 - 15.05 (+5) Szarejko, I. (Poland): High Frequency of Mutations in Barley TILLING Population after Combined Treatment with Sodium Azide and MNU
15.10 - 15.25 (+5) Brownfield, L. (Switzerland): Exploring unreduced male gamete formation for polyploid production in plant breeding
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break 

16.00 - 18.00 Session VIII. Asexual Reproduction in Plant Breeding
Chairs: Nelson, R.J., Ozias-Akins, P.
16.00 - 16.30 (+5) Ozias-Akins, P. (USA): Mendelian genetics of apomixis in plants
16.35 - 17.00 (+5) De Jong, H. (The Netherlands): The colourful world of cytogenomics – applications of molecular cytogenetics tools for Solanum and Arabidopsis introgressions
17.05 - 17.30 (+5) van Heusden, A. W. (The Netherlands): Mapping and characterization of novel parthenocarpy QTLs in tomato and their use in combination with positional sterility
17.35 - 17.50 (+5) Murovec, J. (Slovenia): High Intraspecific Variation of Nuclear DNA Content in an Apomictic Species Poa pratensis L.
18.00 - 20.00 Light Dinner, Poster Session IIb  

Friday February 5 
08.00 - 13.30 Registration
09.00 - 10.30 Session IX. Breeding for Morphological and Physiological Traits
Chairs: Snape, J., Fernie, A.R.
09.00 - 09.25 (+5) Fernie A.R. (Germany): Metabolomics-assisted breeding: a viable option for crop improvement
09.30 - 09.55 (+5) Struik, P.C. (The Netherlands): Converging Crop Physiology and Functional Genomics: Using Crop Modelling for Marker-Assisted Breeding
10.00 - 10.10 (+5) Eberius, M. (Germany): Future developments for non-destructive 3D plant and root Imaging
10.15 - 10.25 (+5) Barna, B. (Hungary): In vitro selection of plants against reactive oxygens as a tool for breeding stress and disease resistant crops
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 - 12.30 Session X. Breeding for Resistance to Diseases
Chairs: Snape, J., Fernie, A.R.
11.00 - 11.25 (+5) Nelson, R.J. (USA): Quantitative Resistance to Foliar Diseases of Maize
11.30 - 11.55 (+5) van der Hoorn, R.A. (Germany): From Guard to Decoy: a new model for perception of plant pathogen effectors
12.00 - 12.15 (+5) Bai, Y. (The Netherlands): Loss of susceptibility as a novel breeding strategy for durable and broad-spectrum resistance
12.20 - 12.30 (+5) Closing Ceremony, Conference Photo
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch 

19.00 - Farewell Party