Sunday, September 8, 2013

13:00-20:00		Registration
18:00-20:00		Welcome cocktail

(*13:00-19:00   Incorporating event: International Wheat Genome Sequence Consortium ‘IWGSC’ Workshop)

Monday, September 9, 2013

(Poster Set-up Time : 08:00 - 14:00)

Chairperson: Takashi Endo
9:00-9:10		Opening Remarks Yasunari Ogihara, Chairman, Symposium Organizing Committee
9:10-9:20		Welcome Address Takashi Suzuki, Deputy Mayor of Yokohama City
9:20-10:05		Special Lecture Koichiro Tsunewaki Prof. H. Kihara’s genome concept and the succeeding wheat cytogenetics advancement in his school
10:05-10:25		Gathering for the memorial group picture of the 12th IWGS
10:25-10:40		Coffee & Tea Break
Chairperson: Hirokazu Handa
10:40-11:25		Special Lecture Thomas Adam Lumpkin How a gene from Japan revolutionized the world of wheat
11:25-12:10		Special Lecture Catherine Feuillet The international effort to sequence the 17Gb wheat genome: Yes, wheat can!
12:10-14:15		Lunch

Chairperson: Robert McIntosh
14:15-15:00		Special Lecture Takashi R. Endo New Aneuploids of common wheat

JSPS-ACORE sponsored session Session 1: Germplasm and Genetic Diversity

Chairperson: Hans Braun
15:00-15:35		Plenary Lecture Helmut Knupffer Genetic resources of Triticum
15:35-16:00		Keynote Yehoshua Saranga Genetic diversity in wild emmer wheat: A key for understanding past domestication and enhancing future production
16:00-16:20		Coffee & Tea Break
16:20-16:35		Oral presentation Shahryar Kianian Wheat nuclear and organelle genomics: Where they intersect great things happen
16:35-16:50		Oral presentation Kenji Kato Genetic diversity in Asian wheat landraces, based on the analysis of heading time genes and non-adaptive DNA markers
16:50-17:05		Oral presentation Manoranjan Dutta Development of core set of wheat germplasm conserved in the National Genebank in India

Chairperson: Hisashi Tsujimoto
17:05-17:40		Plenary Lecture Bikram S. Gill Wheat chromosome analysis
17:40-17:55		Oral presentation Pierre Sourdille Evolutionary dynamics of genes controlling meiotic recombination in wheat: How are they retained expressed and variable?
18:00-20:00		Poster Session (Session 1, 2, 3, and 4)

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

NIAS-sponsored session Session 3: Toward the Whole Genome Sequence

Chairperson: Catherine Feuillet
9:00-9:35		Plenary Lecture Jizeng Jia Aegilops tauschii draft genome sequence reveals a gene repertoire for wheat adaptation
9:35-10:00		Keynote Yasunari Ogihara Comprehensive functional analyses of expressed sequence tags in common wheat
10:00-10:15		Oral presentation Kellye Eversole The IWGSC bread wheat chromosome survey sequencing initiative
10:15-10:30		Oral presentation Fuminori Kobayashi Development of the BAC physical maps of wheat chromosome 6B for its genomic sequencing
10:30-10:50		Coffee & Tea Break

NIAS-sponsored session Session 4: Structural and Functional Genomics

Chairperson: Jizeng Jia
10:50-11:25		Plenary Lecture Jorge Dubcovsky Functional genomic tools to understand wheat development
11:25-11:50		Keynote Rohit Mago Major haplotype divergence at the Sr2 stem rust resistance locus
11:50-13:45		Lunch
13:45-14:00		Oral presentation Tsuyoshi Tanaka Sequencing of wheat chromosome 6B: Toward functional genomics
14:00-14:15		Oral presentation Jaroslav Dolezel Chromosome genomics in wheat: Are we finished?
14:15-14:30		Oral presentation Liuling Yan Genetic mechanims of vernalization requirment duration in winter wheat cultivars
14:30-14:50		Coffee & Tea Break

Session 5.1: Brachypodium Research for Wheat Genetics and Biomass Research Platform (Sponsored by RIKEN Biomass Engineering Program)

Coordinators: Kazuo Shinozaki and Keiichi Mochida

14:50-15:00		Introduction Keiichi Mochida
15:00-15:30		Presentation 1 David Garvin Genome analysis of nonhost resistance to stem rust in Brachypodium
15:30-16:00		Presentation 2 Matsuo Uemura Cold-acclimation-induced changes of plasma membrane proteome in Brachypodium distachyon
16:00-16:30		Presentation 3 Anthony Hall Mutant hunting in hexaploid wheat
16:30-17:00		Presentation 4 Shancen Zhao Toward complex plant genome sequencing: Retrospect and prospect
17:00-17:30		Presentation 5 Daisuke Saisho Bio- and information resources of Brachypodium toward genome-oriented breeding in Triticeae crops

Session 5.2: Genomic Assessments of Global Wheat Genetic Resource Collections (Supported by NBRP-Wheat and CIMMYT)

Coordinators: Shuhei Nasuda and Thomas Payne

14:50-15:00		Introduction Hélène Lucas
15:00-15:25		Presentation 1 Benjamin Kilian Major initiatives to improve wheat production in Europe
15:25-15:50		Presentation 2 Kailash C. Bansal Evaluation of 21000 wheat accessions conserved in the National Genebank in India for tolerance to terminal heat stress
15:50-16:15		Presentation 3 Singh Sukhwinder Seeds of Discovery (SeeD), CIMMYT: Unlocking the useful genetic variation from genebanks for wheat improvement
16:15-16:30		Break
16:30-16:55		Presentation 4 Mark Humble High-throughput phenotyping - A boost for genomics in the 21st century
16:55-17:20		Presentation 5 Gina Lynn Brown-Guedira TCAP: Improving wheat germplasm for changing envrionments
17:20-17:45		Presentation 6 Xueyong Zhang Wheat core collection and its use in diversity and association research
17:45-18:10		Presentation 7 Shuhei Nasuda The core-collection of hexaploid wheat accessions conserved by the National BioResource Project-Wheat, Japan
18:10-18:40		Discussion and Closing Hans Braun

Session 5.3: Application of Genetic and Genomic Studies on Disease Resistance to Wheat Improvement (Supported by KWS UK Ltd / Bayer CropScience / SATREPS Afghanistan Wheat Project, JST/JICA / BGRI)

Coordinators: Tomohiro Ban, Hermann Bürtsmayr, and Matthew Rouse

14:50-15:00		Introduction Tomohiro Ban
15:00-15:25		Presentation 1 Hermann Bürtsmayr Breeding wheat for resistance to Fusarium head blight: Challenges and possibilities
15:25-15:50		Presentation 2 Matthew Rouse Rust Diseases - Review from BGRI achievement
15:50-16:15		Presentation 3 Viktor Korzun Marker-assisted selection for disease resistance in wheat breeding - Promises and reality
16:15-16:40		Presentation 4 Jeff Ellis Genetic and Genomic studies/tools of Host-Pathogen Interaction to be applied for wheat resistance improvement
16:40-16:50		Break
16:50-17:15		Presentation 5 Kostya Kanyuka Modulation and manipulation of plant defences by Mycosphaerella graminicola during wheat infection
17:15-17:40		Presentation 6 Jessica Elaine Rutkoski Applying genomic selection to breed for stem rust resistance in wheat
17:40-18:05		Presentation 7 Ravi Prakash Singh Breeding for resistance to globally important wheat diseases - Current status and future prospects
18:05-18:35		Discussion Panelists: Beat Keller, Evans Lagudah, and Colin Hiebert
18:35-18:40		Recap and Closing Francis Ogbonnaya
18:30-20:00		Poster Session (Session 6 and 7)

(*19:00-21:00   Incorporating event: International Triticeae Mapping Initiative business session)

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Chairperson: Beat Keller
9:00-9:35		Plenary Lecture Graham Moore Exploiting comparative biology and genomics to understand a trait in wheat, Ph1
9:35-10:00		Keynote Wolfgang Spielmeyer Genetic control of plant architecture
10:00-10:20		Coffee & Tea Break
10:20-10:35		Oral presentation Olesya Shoeva The specific features of anthocyanin biosynthesis regulation in wheat
10:35-10:50		Oral presentation Shigeo Takumi miR156 is associated with the grass clump phenotype in hybrids between tetraploid wheat and Aegilops tauschii
10:50-11:05		Oral presentation Yuji Ishida High efficiency wheat transformation mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens

13:00-20:00

Departure from Symposium venue Technical Tour (OP-1), Tokyo Half Day Tour (OP-2), Kamakura Half Day Tour (OP-3); See the details in Optional Tours.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Chairperson: Silvia German
9:00-9:35		Plenary Lecture Colin Hiebert Stem rust resistance - Two approaches
9:35-10:00		Keynote Evans Lagudah Wheat resistance genes to a subgroup of biotrophic pathogens:Diversity and function
10:00-10:15		Oral Presentation Manisha Shankar Germplasm enhancement for resistance to Pyrenophra tritici-repentis in wheat
10:15-10:35		Coffee & Tea Break
10:35-10:50		Oral presentation Zhengqiang Ma Precisely mapping scab resistance QTLs for breeding utilisation
10:50-11:05		Oral presentation Sridhar Bhavani KARI-CIMMYT-DRRW partnership in East Africa: Working together to beat the threat of Ug99

(Supported by ALRC, TU)

Chairperson: Peter Langridge
11:05-11:40		Plenary Lecture Roberto Tuberosa Genomics approaches to dissect the genetic basis of drought resistance in durum wheat
11:40-12:05		Keynote Jochen C. Reif Improving stress resistance switching from line to hybrid breeding
12:05-14:05		Lunch
12:45-14:00		IWGS IOC and LOC
14:05-14:20		Oral Presentation Hisashi Tsujimoto Broadening the genetic diversity of common and durum wheats for screening abiotic stress tolerance
14:20-14:35		Oral presentation Hollie Webster Utilization of the IWGSC wheat survey sequence for RNASeq analysis of water stress effects in developing wheat heads
14:35-14:50		Oral presentation Suchismita Mondal Earliness in wheat: A key to adaptation under high temperature stress
14:50-15:10		Coffee & Tea Break

Chairperson: Tatyana Pshenichnikova
15:10-15:45		Plenary Lecture Gerard Branlard Coping with wheat quality in a changing environment: Proteomics evidence of stresses caused by the changing environment
15:45-16:10		Keynote Toshiki Nakamura Starch modification: A model for wheat MAS breeding
16:10-16:25		Oral presentation Craig F. Morris Quality characteristics of soft kernel durum -A new cereal crop
16:25-16:40		Oral presentation Tatsuya M. Ikeda Proposal of international glutenin research group
16:40-16:55		Oral presentation Tatyana Alexeevna Pshenichnikova Enlargement of the genetic diversity for grain quality in bread wheat through alien introgression
16:55-18:40		Poster Session (Session 8, 9 and 10)

18:40-19:20

IWGS organizing meeting for ‘Plans for future IWGS and strategic perspectives’ Chairperson: Peter Langridge, IOC Chairman

Incorporating event: International Wheat Genome Sequence Consortium Coordinating Committee Meeting (Coordinating Committee members only)

Friday, September 13, 2013

NARO sponsored session Session 10: Classical and Molecular Breeding

Chairperson: Mark Sorrells
9:00-9:35		Plenary Lecture Shunsuke Oda Recent improvement of Japanese wheat
9:35-10:00		Keynote Eduard D Akhunov A haplotype map of wheat and its utility for wheat genetics and breeding
10:00-10:15		Oral presentation Viktor Korzun Molecular and classical wheat breeding in Europe: Current status and perspectives
10:15-10:30		Oral presentation Rima Thapa Determining the order of resistance genes Qsng-3BS, Fhb1 and Sr2 and combining them in coupling on wheat chromosome 3BS
10:30-10:45		Oral presentation Hermann Buerstmayr Meta-analysis of resistance to FHB in tetraploid wheats - Implications for durum wheat breeding
10:45-11:15		Coffee & Tea Break

OECD-CRP Session (Sponsored by the OECD's Co-operative Research Programme on Biological Resource Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems)

11:15-11:20		Opening Remarks    Yasunari Ogihara
11:20-11:30		Short Address of OECD-CRP Theme Coordinator     Hitoshi Nakagawa

Chairpersons: Pedro Brajcich Gallegos and Hitoshi Nakagawa
11:30-12:00		Keynote Matthew P Reynolds Exploring genetic resources to increase adaptation of wheat to climate change
12:00-14:00		Lunch
14:00-14:30		Keynote Beat Keller Genomic approaches towards durable fungal disease resistance in wheat
14:30-15:00		Keynote Zhen-Sheng Li New progress in wheat wide hybridization for improving the resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses
15:00-15:20		Coffee & Tea Break
15:20-15:50		Keynote Michael Baum Global crop improvement networks to bridge technology gaps
15:50-16:20		Keynote Mark E. Sorrells Genomic selection in plants: Empirical results and implications for wheat improvement
16:20-16:50		Keynote Rowan Mitchell Wheat genes for enhanced human nutrition

(Poster Removing Time: 17:00 - 18:00 on Friday, September 13, 2013)

19:00-

Banquet

Saturday, September 14, 2013

OECD-CRP Session Part 2: Enhancing Relevance and Efficiency of Wheat Science for the Society

Chairperson: Tomohiro Ban
9:00-9:30		Plenary Lecture Koji Murakami What does wheat flour industry expect from wheat science?
9:30-10:00		Plenary Lecture Juan Juttner What does seed sector expect from wheat science?
10:00-10:30		Keynote Hans J. Braun Improving wheat for world food security: Concerted approach of IWGS and International Wheat Conference (IWC)
10:30-11:00		Keynote Peter Langridge Wheat Initiative (WI) for sustainable food chain
11:00-11:20		Coffee & Tea Break
11:20-11:50		Concluded Recapitulation Masa Iwanaga International wheat genetics stewardship of green economy and sustainable food chain

 

11:50-12:00

IWGS Closing Remarks Yasunari Ogihara

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