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| Session I: Exploiting Allelic Diversity 
 
 
 | Hari Upadhyaya, ICRISAT 
 Completing genotyping (barley, wheat, sorghum, chickpea) Andy Pereira, WUR   Systematic evaluation of rice mutant collections for conditional phenotypes with emphasis on stress tolerance **Mark Sawkins, CIMMYT 
 Development of Informative Markers through Association Mapping in Maize to Improve Drought Tolerance in Cereals Richard Bruskiewich, IRRI   Development and application of the GenerationCP domain models
 
 
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| Session II: Gene Discovery and Mining
 
 | Mathias Lorieux, CIAT 
 Exploring natural genetic variation: developing genomic resources and introgression lines for four AA genome rice relatives
 
 Michael Baum, ICARDA 
 Allele Mining Based on Non-Coding Regulatory SNPs in barley germplasm
 
 **Abdelbagi M. Ismail, IRRI   Revitalizing marginal lands: discovery of genes for tolerance of saline and phosphorus deficient soils to enhance and sustain productivity
 
 Graham McLaren, IRRI   Improvement of quality of existing databases
 
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| Session III: Marker Development                 back to the top | Rebecca Nelson, Cornell  Targeted discovery of superior disease QTL, alleles in the maize and rice genomes
 **Martin Fregene, CIAT  Development of low-cost technologies for pyramiding useful genes from wild relatives of cassava into elite progenitors
 
 
 Scott Chapman, UQ/CSIRO Optimizing marker-assisted breeding systems for assisted breeding systems for drought tolerance in cereals through linkage of drought tolerance in cereals through linkage of physiological and genetic models
 
 
 **Tom Hazekamp, IPGRI The Generation Challenge Programme Information Infrastructure
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| Session IV: Molecular Breeding and Delivery Plans | **David Bertioli, UCB Unlocking the genetic diversity in peanut's wild relatives with genomic and genetic tools
 Zhi-Kang LI, CAAS
 Drought Tolerant Rice Cultivars for North China and South/Southeast Asia by Highly Efficient Pyramiding of QTL's fro Diverse Origins
 Carmen De Vicente, GCP
 The GCP Strategy for Enabling The GCP Strategy for Enabling Delivery
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| DAY 2 |   | 
| Subprogramme 1:                                             back to the top | Jean Christophe Glaszmann, SP1 Leader -- Plan for the day and report of the Chennai workshop
 
 
 Hari Upadhyaya, ICRISAT --Groundnut core collection/genotyping #03f
 
 
 Bonnie Furman, ICARDA --Lentil core collection/genotyping #03e
 
 
 Hari Upadhyaya, ICRISAT -- Pigeon pea core collection/genotyping #03b
 
 
 Jean Christophe Glaszmann, Agropolis -- Coconut genotyping: LD assessment #03g
 
 
 Marc Ghislain, CIP -- Sweet potato core collection/genotyping #03c
 
 
 **Martin Fregene, CIAT -- Cassava genotyping: traditional and breeding materials #02j and #08
 
 
 Susanne Dreisigacker, CIMMYT -- Maize genotyping: migrations out of America #02a and comp#14
 
 
 Andrzej Kilian, DArT PL -- DArT markers #04
 
 
 Marc Ghislain, CIP -- Potato genotyping: wild/traditional and breeding materials #02j and #08
 
 
 **Ken McNally, IRRI -- Rice genotyping; #02c, #35 and #05; high throughput SNP development
 
 
 **Ken McNally, IRRI -- EcoTILLing
 **Frederico Duraes, EMBRAPA -- Phenotyping network at Embrapa
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| Subprogramme 2:
 
 | Hei Leung, SP2 Leader -- Plan for the day
 Hans-Joachim Braun, CIMMYT --
 Wheat genetic stock assembly and utilization
 Matthew Blair, CIAT --
 Legume mutant resource development/drought mapping in bean
 Merideth Bonierbale, CIP --
 Tuber genetic stocks and gene function validation tools
 Sarah Hearne, IITA, and Tom Hash, ICRISAT --
 Stress response-enriched EST resources for targeted species (cowpea and pearl millet)
 Roland Schefleitner, CIP --
 Validation of conserved orthologous markers
 Nour Ahmadi, CIRAD --
 QTL mapping for drought tolerance
 **Takuji Sasaki, NIAS and Nicolas Roux, INIBAP -
 Targeted Musa genome sequencing and frame map construction
 **Ken McNally, IRRI -
 Genome-wide SNP discovery across multiple rice varieties -
 Pietro Piffanelli, CIRAD --
 Functional genomics of cross-species resistance to fungal diseases in rice and wheat (CEREALIMMUNITY)
 **Mark Sawkins, CIMMYT --
 Determination of a common genetic basis for tissue growth rate under water-limited conditions across plant organs and genomes
 
 
 Tiegang Lu, CAAS -- Crop gene expression profiles and stress-gene arrays
 
 
 John Bennett, IRRI -- Identifying Genes Responsible for Failure of Grain Formation in Rice and Wheat under Drought
 
 
 Jurandir Magalhaes, Embrapa -- Isolation and Characterization of Aluminum Tolerance Genes in the Cereals: An Integrated Functional Genomic, Molecular Genetic and Physiological Analysis
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| Subprogramme 3:                                                       back to the top | **Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, JIRCAS -- Overview of DREB research at JIRCAS
 John Bennett, IRRI --
 Progress in evaluation of DREB transgenics
 Willy de Greef, IPBO --
 Biosafety concerns specific to the deployment of abiotic stress transgenics
 Shawn Sullivan, GCP legal counsel --
 Liability and redress issues related to GMO products
 **Victoria Henson-Apollonio, IPGRI --
 IP issues and product development pathways for molecular breeding technologies
 Nollie Vera Cruz, IRRI --
 Low-cost marker technologies in major cereal crops [rice, maize, and wheat ? barley and sorghum]
 Festo Massawe, IITA --
 Status of marker-assisted selection technologies in legumes and clonal crops [cowpea and groundnut ?chickpea, pigeonpea, lentil]
 
 
 Martin Fregene, CIAT – Status of marker-assisted selection technologies in clonal crops [cassava and banana ? yam and coconut] Alfredo Alves, EMBRAPA --
 Cassava drought physiology
 Marcel de Raissac, CIRAD --
 Whole plant physiology modelling
 
 
 Fred van Eeuwijk, WUR -- New approaches to GxE and QTxE
 Subhash Chandra, ICRISAT --
 iMAS integrating mapping and molecular breeding software
 
 
 Jiankang Wang, CSIRO -- Future plans for molecular breeding simulation tools
 
 
 Hans Braun, CIMMYT -- A practical perspective on the application of molecular breeding simulation tools
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| Subprogramme 4:                                         back to the top | Theo van Hintum, SP4 Leader --
 Opening comments
 
 
 Graham McLaren, IRRI -- Development of an Integrated Information Platform
 
 
 Richard Bruskiewich, IRRI -- Development of GenerationCP Domain models
 
 
 Guy Davenport, CIMMYT -- Creation and maintenance of templates for GenerationCP data storage in repositories
 
 
 Tom Hazekamp, IPGRI -- Development of GenerationCP Central Repository
 
 
 Richard Bruskiewich, IRRI -- Development of GenerationCP Central Repository
 
 
 Milko Skovic, IPGRI -- Implementation of web services technology in GenerationCP Consortium
 
 
 Thomas Metz, IRRI -- GCP Software Engineering Collaboration and Management
 
 
 Xavier Perrier, CIRAD -- Development of decision support systems for sampling germplasm
 
 
 **Anthony Collins, CIP -- Integration of High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities in the GCP toolbox
 
 
 Graham McLaren, IRRI -- Improvement of Quality of Existing Databases
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| Subprogramme 5:
 |   Carmen de Vicente, SP5 Leader -- SP5 presentation and update
 
 
 **Suresh Kumar -- GCP Fellowships + Travel grants
 
 
 **Daniel Fonceka -- GCP Fellowships + Travel grants
 
 
 Heru Kuswantoro -- GCP Fellowships + Travel grants
 
 
 Marja Thijssen -- Development of training materials and Helpdesk
 
 
 S. Chandra -- GCP Training Program
 
 
 Karine Malgrand -- Project proposal design and writing training workshops
   Theresa Fulton --Interactive Resource Center
 
 
 Robin Pistorius -- Regional Courses, Workshop in China Symposium and Distance Policies
 
 
 Thordis Moeller -- Asset Inventory and IP matters
 
 
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| PARALLEL SESSION 1: | Strategies for mining diversity and how to cope with large collections   | 
| PARALLEL SESSION 2: | Strategies allele discovery and how to cope with complex traits   | 
| PARALLEL SESSION 3: 
 
         back to the top | Reaching the Breeders  Jonathan Crouch, CIMMYT -- Reducing Global Poverty through Molecular Breeding
 
 
 Richard Edema, AMBIONET -- The African Molecular Marker The African Molecular Marker Applications Network (AMMAnet): Mission, Objectives and Activities Mission, Objectives and Activities
 
 
 Luz George, CIMMYT --Maize-MAS in Asia: The Asian Maize Biotechnology Network
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| DAY 3 BRAINSTORMING SESSION REPORTS: |   GROUP A moderated by Jonathan Crouch
 
 Outputs for Discussion Group A
   Breakout Group 1Rapporteur: Claire Billot
 Feedback report on Genetic and Genomic Resources and Capacity Building
   Breakout Group 2Rapporteur: Peter Balint-Kurti
 Feedback report on Traits and Software and Data Management
   Breakout Group 3Rapporteur: Sarah Hearne
 Feedback report on Genetic Basis and Breeding Tools
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| GROUP B moderated by Carmen de Vicente
 
 | Outputs for Discussion Group B (not available as of 7 Oct)   Breakout Group 1Rapporteur: James Gethi
 Feedback report on Genetic Basis
   Breakout Group 2Feedback report on Breeding Tools
   Breakout Group 3Feedback report on Capacity Building
   Breakout Group 4Rapporteur: Michael Baum
 Feedback report on Genetic Resources
   Breakout Group 5Rapporteur: Guy Davenport
 Feedback report on Traits
   Breakout Group 6Rapporteur: Richard Bruskiewich
 Feedback report on Data Management and Bioinformatics
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| GROUP C moderated by Theo van Hintum       back to the top | Outputs for Discussion Group C   Breakout Group 1Rapporteur: Andrew Farmer
 Feedback report on Software and Training
   Breakout Group 2Rapporteur: Rajeev Varshney
 Feedback report on Genetic Resources
   Breakout Group 3Rapporteur: Bonnie Furman
 Feedback report on Traits and Breeding Tools/Protocols   | 
| GROUP D   moderated by Hei Leung
 
 | Outputs for Discussion Group D   Breakout groups summaryRapporteurs: Jan Leach, Elizabeth Arnaud, and Merideth Bonierbal
 Feedback report on outputs
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| GROUP E   moderated by Jean Christophe Glaszmann | Outputs for Discussion Group E (not available as of 7 Oct)   Breakout Group 1Rapporteur: Vincent Vadez
 Feedback report on Traits/Breeding
   Breakout Group 2Rapporteur: Bridget Crampton
 Feedback report on Capacity Building
   Breakout Group 3Rapporteur: David Bertioli
 Feedback report on Genetic Material/Genomics
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