10 November,
2003.
Session
I. The Importance of Wheat as a Crop and a Genetic System, Current Investment.
Forrest Chumley, presiding.
-
Introduction to workshop
and welcome. Bikram Gill, Kansas State University
-
Dr. Rodney Brown,
Deputy Under Secretary, REE (Research, Education and Economics)-USDA,
Washington DC;
-
Mike Seyfert, Assistant
Legislative Director, Office of U.S. Senator Pat Roberts.
-
Wheat Improvement in
the 21st Century (Dave Van Sanford, University of Kentucky, Lexington).
-
Wheat Genomics (Jan Dvorak,
University of California–Davis).
-
Triticeae Genome Analysis
(Shahryar Kianian, North Dakota State University, and Jaswinder
Singh/Peggy Lemaux, University of California–Berkeley).
Session
II. The Importance of Wheat as a Crop and a Genetic System, International
Collaborations. Bikram Gill, presiding.
International Collaborations
in Wheat Genomics (reports from Australia (Rudi Appels), Canada (Daryl
Somers, Bill Crosby), China (Jizeng Jia), Czech Republic (Jaroslav
Dolezel), France (Boulos Chalhoub), Germany (Nils Stein), Italy (Albino
Maggio), Japan (Yasunari Ogihara), South Africa (Anna-Maria Botha-Oberholster),
Switzerland (Beat Keller), and U.K. (Ian Bancroft).
Lunch speaker: Cal Qualset,
University of California–Davis, How Will the Broader Research
and User Communities be Engaged ?
Session
III. Lessons Learned: Comparative Mammalian and Grass Genome Analysis.
Katrien Devos, presiding.
-
Lessons Learned and Benefits
of Genomic Analysis of Model Organisms: Targeted Sequencing in Multiple
Vertebrates: New Frontiers in Comparative Genomics (Eric Green,
National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of
Health, Bethesda, MD).
-
Rice Genome Research
Program (Takuji Sasaki, NIAS, Tsukuba, Japan).
-
Sequencing the Maize
Genome–an Update (Joachim Messing, Rutgers University, NJ).
-
Sequence Assembly and
Annotation of the Maize Genespace (Cathy Whitelaw, TIGR).
Session
IV. Lessons Learned: Emerging Sequencing Technologies.
Nora Lapitan, presiding.
-
Critical Analysis of
Genomic Sequencing Technologies for Complex Plant Genomes (Jeff
Bennetzen, University of Georgia, Athens).
-
Title to be Announced
(Francis Quetier, Deputy Director, Genoscope, France).
-
Sequential Shot-gun
Sequencing (Alexander Gutin, Myriad Genetics, Salt Lake City, UT).
Session
V. Annotations, Bioinformatics, and Databases.
Oscar Riera-Lizarazu, presiding.
-
Synteny-based Strategies
to Extract Genome Information from Gene-rich Draft Sequences (Richard
McCombie, Cold Springs Harbor, NY).
-
The Gramene Database
(Lincoln Stein, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY).
-
The GrainGenes Database
(Olin Anderson, USDA–ARS, Albany, CA).
-
Discussion
11 November, 2003.
Session VI. A Case for Wheat Genome Sequencing. Olin Anderson, presiding.
-
Summary of Resources
Available for Wheat Genome Sequencing (Rudi Appels, Murdoch University,
Australia).
-
Biological Features
of the Wheat Genome (Kulvinder Gill, Washington State University,
Pullman).
-
Do we Need to Sequence
the Wheat Genome? (Beat Keller, University of Zurich, Switzerland).
-
Wheat–rice Colinearity:
the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Justin Faris, USDA–ARS, Fargo,
ND).
-
What We have Learned
from Sample Sequencing of the Wheat Genome (John Fellers, USDA–ARS,
Manhattan, KS).
-
A Strategic Plan for
Sequencing the Gene-rich Regions of the Wheat Genome ? (Bikram Gill
and Wanlong Li, Kansas State University, Manhattan).
Session
VII. Structured Discussion on the Pros and Cons of Sequencing the Wheat
Genome. Rudi Appels, presiding.
-
Structured Discussion
on the Pros and Cons of sequencing the wheat genome.
-
Feedback from Panel (Jeff
Bennetzen, Robin Buell, Takuji Sasaki, Piotr Gornicki, Jan Dvorak).
-
Concluding Remarks and
Timetable for the Next Steps (Bikram Gill, Rudi Appels).
|
