Welcome to the Genome Association Conference 2009
It is with pleasure that the International Centre for Plant Breeding Education and Research (ICPBER) at The University of Western Australia invites your attendance and participation in this event. It is the first time that we are aware that an OECD conference has come to Western Australia and we are dedicated to making this a success through a team of 16 high calibre OECD-invited speakers, and by encouraging the world’s plant breeding community to lodge contributed papers. Our keynote address will be delivered by Prof Bruce Weir, Chair and Professor of Biostatistics and Adjunct Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, whose paper will help us to link the tremendous advances in human and animal association studies with advances in crop breeding.
Major advances are occurring through genome association mapping in humans, animals and some plant species. The challenge of this conference is to provide plant breeders with a clear path towards the application of association mapping to plant genetic improvement. For this reason, we have speakers who represent human genetics, where genome-wide association is pinpointing genes associated with human disease, and animal breeding, where genome-wide association is being exploited to accelerate genetic improvement.
The conference is being held at the University Club on the grounds of The University of Western Australia – which overlooks the Swan River in one of the most beautiful parts of Perth. We believe this conference has important implications for all crop breeding and we are targeting a general plant breeding audience - hence the title: “OECD-GenomeAssociation-OZ09”.
Please encourage all crop breeding colleagues to attend.
We also encourage you to take advantage of the early bird conference price of $880/head (including GST), which closes on July 30, 2009, after which the conference registration price rises to $990/head.
| Wallace Cowling Convenor Associate Professor in Plant Breeding The University of Western Australia |
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Key dates for conference participants
Friday October 9
Completed abstract submitted for printing in conference hand book
November 9
Pre conference workshop
9am to 2pmConference welcome sun-downer
5:30pm-6:30pmNovember 10-12
Conference Days 1, 2 & 3Wednesday December 9
Conference paper submitted to Genome for publishing
