Dear Sir/Madam
I would greatly appreciate if you may please circulate this on the mailing
list.
Happy New Year and kind regards
Rajeev
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Dear All
Wishing you a very Happy New Year!
Just thought to update you with the ³Genomics-Assisted Breeding² workshop
that will be held on Tuesday morning (12 January 2010 --- 10:20 am - 12:30)
in Town and Country Room in Town & Country Hotel during XVIII Plant and
Animal Genome Conference in San Diego, USA. While details about this
workshop are available at http://www.intl-pag.org/18/18-gen-breeding.html ,
the list of speakers and their title of presentations are pasted below:
1. Rajeev Varshney, ICRISAT, INDIA
"Welcome & Introduction"
2. Yunbi Xu, CIMMYT, MEXICO
"Development and application of a SNP-chip based molecular breeding platform
in maize"
3. Phil McClean, North Dakota State University, USA
"Genome-wide scan for loci affecting iron deficiency chlorosis tolerance in
soybean"
4. Richard Visser, Wageningen University & Research (WUR), THE NETHERLANDS
"Genomics assisted breeding in potato: know your alleles!"
5. Jorge Dubcovsky, University of California- Davis, USA
"Genomics-assisted breeding in US public wheat breeding programs"
6. Rex Bernardo, University of Minnesota, USA
"Potential and practicality of genomewide selection in plants"
7. Jacqueline Heard, Monsanto Company, USA
"Improving crop productivity: translational research for sustainable
agriculture"
8. Rajeev Varshney, ICRISAT, INDIA
"Summary & Wrap-up"
I am sure that the we will have excellent presentations in the workshop so
please plan to mark your calendar and participate in the workshop.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
Many thanks and kind regards
Rajeev
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Rajeev K. Varshney, Ph.D.
Principal Scientist (Applied Genomics)
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
and
Leader, Sub Programme 2: Genomics towards Gene Discovery
Generation Challenge Programme (GCP, www.generationcp.org)
Mailing Address: Centre of Excellence in Genomics (CEG), Building # 300
ICRISAT, Patancheru - 502 324, Greater Hyderabad, INDIA
Tel: 0091 40 30713305; Fax: 0091 40 3071 3074/ 3075
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