Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee Meeting

 

Monona Terrace - Madison, Wisconsin

August 3-5 2009 Tentative Schedule

For registration information visit: http://cuke.hort.ncsu.edu/gpb/meetings/pbccmeeting2009.html

 

Monday August 3

Noon Poster set up

1:00-2:30 Business meeting Ballroom A

2:30-3:00 break Grand Terrace East

3:00-4:30 Committee meetings Hall of Ideas EFG

4:30-6:00 Business meeting Ballroom A

6:30-8:00 Barbeque Rootop

8:00-8:45 Evening talk (Ballroom A) ”Epistasis?“, Jim Holland NSCU and USDA-ARS

9:00-10:00 Cash bar Rooftop

 

Tuesday August 4 Ballroom A

8:30-9:15 Optimizing Experimental Designs: Finding Hidden Treasure. Mike Casler, USDA-ARS UW-Madison

9:15-10:00 Developing forage cultivars for the Southeast: Thoughts on breeding, commercialization, and adoption. Charlie Brummer, UGA

10-10:30 Break Grand Terrace East

10:30-11:15 Multiple Selections during Domestication in Phaseolus vulgaris. Paul Gepts, UC Davis

11:15-noon Plant breeding to basic biology and back. Liz Lee, University of Guelph

Noon Lunch Grand Terrace East

1:30-2:15 A dip in the (tertiary) genepool: comparative structural genomics for improved access to genes from wild relatives of potato. Jim Bradeen, UMinn

2:15- 3:00 An accidental breeder: A plant systematist’s forays into the secondary germplasm resources of legume crops. Jeff Doyle, Cornell University

3:00-3:30 Break Grand Terrace East

3:30- 4:15 Creating opportunity through wide-cross hybridization and introgression. David Stelly, Texas A&M

4:15-6:00 Business meeting Ballroom A

7:00-9:00 Dinner Grand Terrace East

 

Wednesday August 5

8:00-noon Tour of local plant breeding facilities, Vegetables, maize, forages, bioenergy