Conference Program
Monday November 9 | |||||
| Time | Title | Presenter | University/Institution | Download | Presentation |
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5.30pm - 6.30pm | Conference Welcome sundowner | ||||
Tuesday November 10 | |||||
| Time | Title | Presenter | University/Institution | Download | Presentation |
9.00am | Welcome Address | Professor Alan Robson | Vice Chancellor, University of WA | ||
9.15am | Official Opening | Hon Terry Redman | Minister for Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries | ||
9.30am | Why Brassicas | Dr Ervin Balazs | OECD Representative | ||
9.45am | Whole-genome association mapping: statistical genetic issues | Prof Bruce Weir | Universitiy of Washington | ||
10.30am | Morning Tea | ||||
| WHOLE GENOME ASSOCIATIONS IN ANIMALS AND PLANTS | |||||
11.00am | Linkage disequilibrium and genome-wide association in animal breeding | Dr Ben Hayes | Victorian Department of Primary Industries | ||
11.40am | Whole-genome association mapping in elite inbred crop varieties | Dr Robbie Waugh | SCRI, Dundee, Scotland, UK | ||
12.20pm | Association mapping of forage quality traits in perennial ryegrass | Dr Guoyou Ye | IRRI, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines | ||
12.40pm | LUNCH | ||||
| TECHNOLOGIES FOR GENOME WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES IN BRASSICA (i) | |||||
1.30pm | Future technology for Brassica association mapping | Dr Dave Edwards | Aust Centre for Plant Function Genomics, Uni Queensland | ||
2.10pm | SNP discovery and multiplex SNP genotyping in Brassica using the Illumina GoldenGate platform | Dr Gregor Durstewitz | Trait Genetics GmbH, Gatersleben, Germany | ||
2.50pm | Molecular diversity and genetic structure of modern and traditional landrace cultivars of wheat (Triticum aestivum L) within a germplasm collection | Dr Harsh Raman | NSW Dept Industry and Investment | ||
3.10pm | AFTERNOON TEA | ||||
| GENERATING AND MEASURING GENETIC AND PHENOTYPIC DIVERSITY (i) | |||||
3.40pm | Multiplicative modelling of additive and non-additive genetic effects in a series of plant breeding trials - an example based on canola oil | Assoc Prof Wallace Cowling | School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia | ||
4.20pm | On the optimal design of experiments with a known treatment covariance structure and spatial dependence | Dr Dave Butler | Dept of Employment, Economic Development & Innovation, Queensland | ||
4.40pm | A new method to create the dominance relationship matrix under no inbreeding | Dr Helena Oakey | University of Adelaide | ||
Wedesday November 11 | |||||
| Time | Title | Presenter | University/Institution | Download | Presentation |
| EXPLOITING ASSOCIATION MAPPING IN BRASSICA AND OTHER CROPS (i) | |||||
8.30am | Regional association analysis in oilseed rape by marker saturation in sequenced QTL regions | Dr Rod Snowdon | Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany | ||
9.10am | Association mapping in oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.): a case study on quantitative resistance for Leptosphaeria maculans | Dr Regine Delourme | INRA, Le Rheu, France | ||
9.50am | Genome wide expression analysis in the complex amphidiploid Brassica napus | Dr Isobel Parkin | Agriculture and Agri-food Canada, Saskatoon, Canada | ||
10.30am | MORNING TEA | ||||
| GENERATING AND MEASURING GENETIC AND PHENOTYPIC DIVERSITY (ii) | |||||
11.00am | Population Breeding: generating and maintaining diversity at the elite level in crop breeding | Prof Duane Falk | Dept Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Canada | ||
11.40am | Selection for breeding value and variety release in multi-environment trials exploiting multiplicative modelling - an example based on canola oil | Prof Brian Cullis | Dept Industry and Innovation, New South Wales | ||
12.20pm | Accounting for population structure and spatial variation in marker-trait associations in sugarcane | Dr X Wei | Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations, Queensland | ||
12.40pm | LUNCH | ||||
| EXPLOITING ASSOCIATION MAPPING IN BRASSICA AND OTHER CROPS (ii) | |||||
1.30pm | Exploiting associations between genetic, environmental and epigenetic components of crop traits | Dr Graham King | Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, AL5 2JQ, UK | ||
2.10pm | Linkage disequilibrium and association mapping in canola quality winter rapeseed (B. napus L.) | Dr Wolfgang Ecke | Dept Crop Sciences, Georg-August-University Gottingen, Germany | ||
2.50pm | An application of Wheat Phenome Atlas using three-way principal component analysis | Dr Vivi Arief | University of Queensland | ||
3.10pm | AFTERNOON TEA | ||||
| TECHNOLOGIES FOR GENOME WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES IN BRASSICA(ii) | |||||
3.40pm | Development of high resolution reference genetic linkage map of Brassica rapa | Prof Yong Pyo Lim | Chungnam National University, Korea | ||
4.20pm | Comparative methods for association mapping in Brassica rapa | Dr Guusje Bonnema | Wageningen University, Netherlands | ||
Thursday November 12 | |||||
| Time | Title | Presenter | University/Institution | Download | Presentation |
| EXPLOITING GENETIC DIVERSITY IN BRASSICA | |||||
8.30am | Brassica napus and the gene pool it can access | Dr Derek Lydiate | Agriculture and Agri-food Canada, Saskatoon, Canada | ||
9.10am | Wild Relatives of Brassica | Dr Bob Redden | Department of Primary Industries, Victoria | ||
9.30am | Diversity genomics across the Brassicaceae | Dr Jacqui Batley | University of Queensland | ||
9.50am | How close each other for the QTL identified from linkage mapping and association mapping – a case of the genetic analysis on the trait of oil content in seeds of Brassica Napus | Prof Jingling Meng | Huazhong Agricultural University | ||
10.10am | Screening germplasm of Brassica juncea for alkaline salinity response | Mr M Javid | University of Melbourne | ||
10.30am | MORNING TEA | ||||
| EXPLOITING ASSOCIATION MAPPING IN CROPS | |||||
11.00am | Opportunities for improving the efficiency of breeding in macadamia through selection on genomic markers | Craig Hardner | University of Queensland | ||
11.20am | Development of Sequence Characterized Amplified Region Markers (SCARs) in melon | Mr Budi Setiadi Daryono | Gadjah Mada University Yogyakarta 55281 Indonesia | ||
11.40pm | Group Discussion | Dr Ervin Balazs & Assoc Prof Wallace Cowling | OECD/UWA | ||
12.30pm | Closing Address | Professor Doug McEachern | University of WA | ||
