UW-Madison Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics

Schedule for Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee Meeting, hosted by UW-Madison (Aug 3-5)

cck124 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:09:06 +0000

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

PBPG Ph.D. Student Exit Seminar (6/11/09): “Maize Transformation Efficiency Increase via RNAi-mediated Suppression of Chromatin-Associated Genes”

cck124 — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:01:31 +0000

Please join us for Annie McGill’s Ph.D. Thesis Seminar:

Maize Transformation Efficiency Increase via RNAi-mediated Suppression of Chromatin-Associated Genes

10AM on Thursday, June 11, 2009 in room 351 Plant Sciences

Advisor: Heidi Kaeppler

PBPG Ph.D. Student Exit Seminar (5/15/09): “Variation for Cold-Induced Sweetening, Maillard Reaction Products, and Invertase SNPs in Solanum Germplasm”

cck124 — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:42:49 +0000

Please join us for Leah McCann’s Ph.D. Thesis Seminar:

Variation for Cold-Induced Sweetening, Maillard Reaction Products, and Invertase SNPs in Solanum Germplasm

9AM on Friday, May 15, 2009 in room 351 Plant Sciences

Advisors: Phil Simon and Paul Bethke

PBPG Ph.D. Student Exit Seminar (5/7/09): “Characterizing Plastome Variation and its Contribution to Chilling Injury Tolerance in Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L)”

cck124 — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:37:36 +0000

Please join us for Vanessa Gordon’s Ph.D. Thesis Seminar:

Characterizing Plastome Variation and its Contribution to Chilling Injury Tolerance in Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)

9AM on Thursday, May 7, 2009 in room 473 Plant Sciences

Advisors: Phil Simon and Jack Staub

PBPG/Agronomy Special Seminar (4/27/09): Dr. Mark Sorrells, Cornell, “Association Breeding Strategies for Crop Improvement”

cck124 — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:08:43 +0000

Please join us for a special Agronomy Colloquium (D.C. Smith Memorial Lecture):

“Association Breeding Strategies for Crop Improvement”

Mark Sorrells, Cornell University

Monday, April 27, 2009

12-1pm in 1520 Microbial Sciences

PBPG M.S. Student Exit Seminar (4/14/09): “Recurrent Selection for Cold Temperature Seedling Growth in Sweet Corn (Zea mays L.)”

cck124 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:18:36 +0000

Please Joins us for Leah Visselman’s M.S. Thesis Seminar:

Recurrent Selection for Cold Temperature Seedling Growth in Sweet Corn (Zea mays L.)

Tues, April 14, 1PM, in 128 Plant Sciences

Advisor: Bill Tracy

PBPG M.S. Student Exit Seminar (4/8/09): “Breeding Maize for Enhanced Silage Quality”

cck124 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:10:30 +0000

Please join us for Tim Gustafson’s Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics Master’s Degree Exit Seminar:

“Breeding Maize for Enhanced Silage Quality: Aspects of Stover and Grain Improvement”

Weds, April 8, 2009, 8AM

108 Plant Sciences

PBPG/Agronomy Special Seminar (4/8/09): Dr. Tabare Abadie, Pioneer, “Pioneer’s Molecular Breeding Program”

cck124 — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:04:07 +0000

Please join us for a special Agronomy Colloquium:

Dr. Tabare Abadie, Pioneer Hi-Bred

“Pioneer’s Molecular Breeding Program”

Weds, April 8, 12-1pm

351 Moore Hall

Following the presentation, there will be a pizza lunch from 1-1:30pm for graduate and undergraduate students who would like to have further discussions with Tabare.

PBPG/Agronomy Special Seminar (4/1/09): Dr. Dave Somers, Agracetus, “Monsanto’s Biotech Pipeline”

cck124 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:12:53 +0000

Please join us for a special Agronomy Colloquium:

Dr. Dave Somers, Agracetus

“Monsanto’s Biotech Pipeline”

Weds, April 1, 12-1pm

351 Moore Hall

Following the presentation, there will be a pizza lunch from 1-1:30pm for graduate and undergraduate students who would like to have further discussions with Dave.

PBPG M.S. Student Exit Seminar (3/31/09): “Genetic and Inheritance of Traits Relating to Weed Competitiveness in Sweet Corn”

cck124 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:51:00 +0000

Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics M.S. Exit Seminar - Jared Zyskowski

“Genetic and Inheritance of Traits Relating to Weed Competitiveness in Sweet Corn (Zea mays L.)”

Tuesday, March 31st 11:30AM

351 Moore Hall