Announcing the 2019 Tucson Plant Breeding Institute, meeting in Tucson on January 7-11, 2019, the week before PAG (San Diego is a roughly 60 minute flight from Tucson).
For more information:
Website: http://www.plantbreedinginstitute.bio5.org<http://www.plantbreedinginstitute.bio5.org/>
Or email (jbwalsh from u.arizona.edu)
This year's institute offers the following modules:
Module 1: Introduction to Plant Quantitative Genetics Target audience: Geneticists and molecular biologists with an interest in classic approaches to plant breeding that are critical for molecular breeding.
Goals: An introduction to the basic machinery of quantitative genetics useful for plant breeders Assumed background: Some exposure to statistics (regressions, ANOVA, covariances).
Lectures:
(1) Introduction to Modern Plant Breeding
(2) Basic Genetics
(3) Basic Statistics
(4) Variance Decomposition
(5) Resemblance Between Relatives
(6) Heritability and Field Designs
(7) QTL Mapping
(8) Association Mapping
(9) Inbreeding, Heterosis
(10) Mass and Family Selection
Module 2: Advanced Statistical Plant Breeding Target audience: Geneticists and molecular biologists with an interest in classic approaches to plant breeding critical for molecular breeding.
Goals: An introduction to advanced methods for gene detection, mapping, and selection with a focus on marker-based approaches.
Assumed background: Introduction to Plant Quantitative Genetics module or similar background.
Lectures:
(1) Linear Algebra
(2) Multivariate Selection
(3) Index Selection
(4) Mixed Models
(5) Association Mapping in Structured Populations
(6) BLUP
(7) Marker-Assisted and Genomic Selection
(8) G x E 1: Stability Measures and AMMI
(9) G x E II: Mixed Models
10) BiPlots
Instructors for both modules:
Prof. Bruce Walsh, Depts. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Plant Science, Animal Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of Arizona
Prof. Michael Gore, Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, Cornell University
Prof. Lucia Gutierrez, Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin, Madison
