GCP collaborator promoted to Director of CERAAS, Senegal

  Ousmane Ndoye was recently appointed Director of the Centre d'Etude Régional pour l'Amélioration de l'Adaptation à la Sécheresse (CERAAS) in Thiès, Senegal. Ousmane is a Principal Investigator in GCP’s Subprogramme 3 and also a collaborator in the Tropical Legumes I project. He was previously Director of Le Centre...

October 6, 2009 6:00pm

Borlaug Fellowship Program opportunity

  The Norman E Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellows Programme helps developing countries strengthen sustainable agricultural practices by providing short-term scientific training and collaborative research opportunities to visiting researchers, policymakers and university faculty while they work with a mentor. The programme targets developing countries and matches participants...

September 29, 2009 6:00pm

Vavilov-Frankel Fellowship: 2010 Call for applications

Two Fellowship opportunities will be available for 2010 to carry out research on conservation and use of Plant Genetic Resources. The Fellowships are supported by Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., United States, and the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC), Australia. Applications are invited from nationals of developing countries, aged...

September 29, 2009 6:00pm

Banana genome sequencing underway in France

  Genoscope (part of the Genomic Institute of the CEA in Evry, France) and Agropolis–CIRAD (Montpellier, France) are starting to perform the complete sequencing of the banana genome. With an annual production of over 100 million tons, the banana is considered a key nutritional commodity. It is consumed at...

September 29, 2009 6:00pm

GCP welcomes Larry Butler, Product Delivery Leader

  Following a long and thorough recruitment process, GCP is delighted to announce the appointment of Larry Butler as GCP’s Product Delivery Leader. Larry, who took up the position on 7th September 2009, will coordinate, supervise and advise the seven GCP Product Delivery Coordinators (PDCs), who currently head GCP’s...

September 28, 2009 6:00pm

Socio-economics intern at GCP Headquarters

  Kayoko Lyons is on internship with GCP, working under the direction of Subprogramme 5 Leader Carmen de Vicente on public awareness briefs highlighting the findings of SP5 socio-economic studies, as well as creating a GCP website on outputs from these studies. For four weeks between July and August...

September 28, 2009 6:00pm

Materials from SP4/SP2 NGS technology data analysis workshop online

Following on from the recent announcement about the GCP Subprogramme 4/Subprogramme 2 workshop on Next generation sequencing (NGS) technology data analysis, held from 21–23 July 2009 in ICRISAT Headquarters, India, and organised by GCP’s Subprogramme 2 Leader Rajeev Varshney, materials from the workshop, including a full set of presentations,...

September 28, 2009 6:00pm

GCP launches new set of Learning Materials: Marker-assisted breeding

  GCP’s Subprogramme 5 is pleased to announce the launch of a new set of Learning Materials on Marker-Assisted Breeding (Beta version, September 2009). The materials, primarily developed by GCP collaborator Theresa Fulton of Cornell University, USA, with assistance from GCP consultant Robert Koebner, were designed to be used...

September 28, 2009 6:00pm

GCP 2008 Annual Report now available

The GCP 2008 Annual Report and 2009 (Year six) workplan is now available in hard copy and online. Those interested in receiving a print copy by post should contact Communications Assistant Kate Durbin. To view the online version, as well as other current GCP publications, please visit our Recent...

September 24, 2009 6:00pm

GCP launches its Molecular Breeding Platform

After months of discussions, brainstorming, design and preparatory work in collaboration with industry experts, public and private sector partners, and several complementary players from GCP’s broad network of collaborators, GCP is delighted to announce the launch of its Molecular Breeding Platform (MPB). The MBP is conceived as a five-year...

September 1, 2009 6:00pm

ICRISAT–CEG to hold sixth training course

 ICRISAT's Center of Excellence in Genomics (CEG), supported by the Government of India’s Department of Biotechnology, will host its sixth training course entitled 'Application of genomics technologies in plant breeding, from 16–27 November 2009 at the ICRISAT campus at Patancheru, Greater Hyderabad, India. The course will provide participants a...

August 20, 2009 6:00pm

More resources from SP5: MAB workshop, July 2009

From 29th June to 3rd July 2009, 26 participants from around the globe came together for an essentially practical, hands-on course on Marker-Assisted Breeding. The course, supported by GCP’s Subprogramme 5 and led by instructors Joost van Heerwaarden (University of California–Riverside), Hans Jansen and Marcos Malosetti (Wageningen University and...

August 12, 2009 6:00pm

GCP holds data analysis workshop, 21–23 July 2009

  A workshop on next generation sequencing (NGS) technology data analysis was held at ICRISAT Headquarters in India from 21–23 July 2009. The workshop, part of SP4 Commissioned project G4009.04: ‘Data analysis support for existing projects in SP2 with emphasis on analysis of Next Generation Sequencing data’, led by...

August 12, 2009 6:00pm

GCP rice project in the news

  GCP collaborators working on a rice project in The Philippines start to see the results of their hard work come to fruition as the outcomes of their research feature in journal articles and press releases. Results from the GCP SP2 Commissioned project G4005.35 ‘Sequencing multiple and diverse rice...

August 12, 2009 6:00pm

'AquaCrop' workshop, 25–29 October 2009, Cairo, Egypt

  A workshop, entitled 'Capacity Development for Farm Management Strategies to Improve Crop-Water Productivity using AquaCrop' will be held from 25–29 October 2009 in Cairo, Egypt, to train participants in the practical applications of ‘AquaCrop’, a crop model recently developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United...

August 6, 2009 6:00pm