PROGRAM
Saturday June 1
6:00 pm Registration- Solarium Room (Sheraton second floor)
6:30 pm Reception, Solarium Room
Sunday June 2
All sessions take place in the Manitoba Room on the second floor of the hotel
7:45 am Continental Breakfast (outside Manitoba Room)
8:00 am Registration
8:15 am Welcome, M. Jordan (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada), W. Powell (ITMI Management Office, Scottish Crop Research Institute)
8:30-10:00 am. Session 1. Mapping, Chair Daryl Somers, AAFC, Canada
8:30 am S. Kianian, North Dakota State University, USA
Radiation Hybrid Mapping of a Species Cytoplasm Specific Gene in Durum Wheat
9:00 am R. Appels, Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Australia
Composite Mapping in Wheat
9:30 am H. Buerstmayr, IFA-Tulln, Austria
Mapping of QTLs for Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Wheat
10:30-12:00. Session 2. Gene Expression, Chair Tim Xing, AAFC, Canada
10:30 am Y. Ogihara, Yokohama City University, Japan
The Wheat EST Project in Japan
11:00 am J. Fellers, USDA, Kansas State University, USA
Gene Expression in Spikes Infected with Fusarium and Karnal Bunt
11:30 am T. Xing, AAFC, Canada
Genomics Decoding of Plant Defense Pathways
12:00 Lunch (served outside Manitoba Room)
1:15-3:30 pm. Session 3. Co-ordinators reports, Chair Mark Jordan, AAFC, Canada
1: 15 pm O. Anderson, USDA, Albany CA, USA
ESTs and Bioinformatics
1:30 pm R. Appels, Murdoch University, Australia
Linkage Maps and QTLs
1:45 pm S. Cloutier, AAFC, Canada
Physical Mapping and Large Insert Libraries
2:00 pm K. Devos, John Innes Centre, UK
Genetic Stocks
2:15 pm G. Muehlbauer, University of Minnesota, USA
Functional Markers
2:30 pm R. Wise, Iowa State University, USA
Highly Parallel Expression Analysis
2:45 pm Discussion of issues presented
3:30 pm Poster Session. Solarium room. Refreshments served. Poster boards sponsored by NRC.
6:45 pm Meet in lobby of hotel for walk to Banquet facility
7:00 pm Reception
Millennium Centre, 389 Main St.
7:30 pm Dinner
Millennium Centre, 389 Main St.
Monday June 3
7:45 am Continental Breakfast (outside Manitoba Room)
8:30-10:00 am. Session 4. Physical Mapping and Large Insert Libraries, Chair Sylvie Cloutier, AAFC, Canada
8:30 am B. Chalhoub, INRA, France
Wheat BAC Libraries and their use in Gene Cloning and Genome Organization Studies
9:00 am. N. Stein, IPK, Gatersleben, Germany
Map-based Cloning in Barley Using the Morex BAC Library
9:30 am G. Muehlbauer, University of Minnesota, USA
Genetic and Morphological Analysis of Branching in Barley
10:00 am Coffee (outside Manitoba Room). Sponsored by VWR.
10:30-12:00 Session 5. Proteomics, Chair Christof Rampitsch, AAFC, Canada
10:30 am J. Anderson, USDA, Purdue University, USA
Combining Liquid Chromatography with Mass Spectrometry to Detect Differential Expression of Proteins in Plant-Pathogen Interactions
11:00 am P. Beckett, Amersham, USA
Proteomics Study of Fruit Ripening Based on DIGE Analysis
11:30 am C. Rampitsch, AAFC, Canada
Proteomics-based Analysis of MAPK Signalling in Plant-Pathogen Interactions
12:00 Lunch (outside Manitoba Room)
1:15-2:00 pm. Session 6. Plenary
1:15 pm Richard Flavell, CERES, USA
Full Length cDNAs and Genome Analysis
2:00-5:30pm. Session 7. Discussion of New Initiatives, Chair Daryl Somers, AAFC, Canada
2:00 pm B. Gill, Kansas State University, USA
International Wheat Genomics Program: a Proposal
2:45 Coffee . Sponsored by Quality Assured Seeds. (CIGI pasta plant tour participants meet in hotel lobby at 3:00 pm)
3:00 pm P. Isaac, Agrogene, France
SNP Initiative
3:30 pm T. Close, University of California, Riverside, USA
HarvEST and the Barley Unigene Initiative
4:00 pm O. Anderson, USDA, Albany, CA, USA
The US EST Mapping Project
4:45 pm Discussion of Initiatives
Tuesday, June 4
7:45 am Continental Breakfast (outside Manitoba Room)
8:30-9:30 am. Session 8. Bioinformatics, Chair Travis Banks, AAFC, Canada
8:30 am V. Carollo, USDA, Albany, CA, USA
GrainGenes and Beyond: Bioinformatics Tools for the Wheat Genome Project
9:00 am D. Matthews, USDA, Cornell University, USA
Public Databases for Triticeae Genomics
9:30 Coffee
10:00-12:00. Session 9. Discussion and Action Plans, Chair Wayne Powell, SCRI, Scotland
12:00 noon Adjourn