Cassava Genomics

Date: Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Time: 3:50 PM-6:00 PM
Room: Sunrise
Organizer:
Steve Rounsley
3:50 PM
GCP21- A Global Network to Improve Cassava Productivity
Claude Fauquet, Global Cassava Partnership for the 21st Century

4:10 PM
Accelerating the Rate of Genetic Improvement in Cassava
Jean-Luc Jannink, USDA ARS; Martha Hamblin, Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University; Peter Kulakow, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA); Ismail Rabbi, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA); Lukas Mueller, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research; Melaku Gedil, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA); Moshood Bakare, IITA; Yona Baguma, National Crops Resources Research Institute (NaCRRI); Robert Kawuki, National Crops Resources Research Institute; Anthony Pariyo, National Crops Resources Research Institute (NaCRRI); Chiedozie Egesi, National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI); Emmanuel Okogbenin, National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI); Tim Setter, Cornell University; Charlotte Acharya, Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University; Simon Prochnik, DOE Joint Genome Institute; Hale Tufan, Cornell University; Ronnie Coffman, Cornell University

4:30 PM
Phenotype Management in the SGN Platform
Lukas Mueller, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research; Naama Menda, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research; Jeremy D. Edwards, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research

4:50 PM
5:10 PM
Comparative Genomics of Cassava Bacterial Blight Strains
Rebecca Bart, University of California Berkeley

5:30 PM
Linkage and Genome-Wide Association Mapping Using Next-Generation Genotyping-by-Sequencing in the Clonally-Propagated Cassava
Ismail Rabbi, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA); Melaku Gedil, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA); Peter Kulakow, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA); Delphine Ly, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique; Martha Hamblin, Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University; Jean-Luc Jannink, USDA ARS

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