Date: Saturday, January 11, 2014
Time: 1:30 PM-3:40 PM
Room: Pacific Salon 1
1:30 PM
Draft Genome Assembly and Survey of Genetic Diversity within Lens culinaris
Larissa Ramsay, University of Saskatchewan;
Andrew G. Sharpe, National Research Council Canada / Global Institute for Food Security (U of S);
Douglas R. Cook, University of California at Davis;
R. Varma Penmetsa, University of California Davis;
Neha Gujaria-Verma, University of Saskatchewan;
Albert Vandenberg, University of Saskatchewan;
Kirstin Bett, University of Saskatchewan
2:10 PM
Lentil Genomics: Walking on the Wild Side
Kirstin Bett, University of Saskatchewan;
Neha Gujaria-Verma, University of Saskatchewan;
Larissa Ramsay, University of Saskatchewan;
Abebe Tullu, University of Saskatchewan;
Shyamali Saha, University of Saskatchewan;
Li-An Chen, University of Saskatchewan;
Sally Vail, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada;
R. Varma Penmetsa, University of California Davis;
Douglas R. Cook, University of California at Davis;
Albert Vandenberg, University of Saskatchewan
2:30 PM
Harvesting Genetic Diversity from Genebank to Pigeonpea Breeding
Rajeev Varshney, ICRISAT;
Rachit K Saxena, ICRISAT;
Annapurna Chitikineni, ICRISAT;
Hari D. Upadhyaya, ICRISAT;
Obarley Yu, Millennium Genomics Inc.;
Changhoon Kim, MACROGEN Inc.;
Jihun Kim, MACROGEN Inc.;
Shaun An, Millennium Genomics Inc.;
G Anuradha, Acharaya NG Ranga Rao Agricultural University;
Wei Zhang, Millennium Genomics Inc.;
PS Dharmaraj, University of Agricultural Sciences, ARS-Gulbarga;
Bellbull Kim, MACROGEN Inc.;
Hwanseok Rhee, MACROGEN Inc.;
Swapan K Datta, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
2:50 PM
The Impact of Domesication on Nitrogen Fixation in Chickpea: Parrallel Shifts in Bacterial Genome Structure and Host Selectivity
Alex Greenspan, University of California;
Dong Hyun Kim, ICRISAT;
Peter Chang, University of Southern California;
Aamir W. Khan, ICRISAT;
Emily M. Bergmann, University of California;
Vanessa Sanchez, Florida International University;
Lisa Vance, University of California;
Klara Scharnagl, Florida International University;
Mayank Kaashyap, ICRISAT;
Mohammad Yasin, RVSKVV;
Jagmeet Kaur, Punjab Agricultural University;
Sarvjeet Singh, Punjab Agricultural University;
Hari D. Upadhyaya, ICRISAT;
Pooran M. Gaur, ICRISAT;
R. Varma Penmetsa, University of California Davis;
Eric von Wettberg, Florida International University;
Rajeev Varshney, ICRISAT;
Douglas R. Cook, University of California at Davis
3:10 PM
Genome Sequence Diversity Pattern and Trends in 140 Elite Cultivars of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum)
Annapurna Chitikineni, ICRISAT;
Weiming He, Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI);
Pooran M. Gaur, ICRISAT;
Jianbo Jian, BGI;
Manish Roorkiwal, ICRISAT;
Narendra P Singh, All India Coordinated Research Project on Chickpea (AICRP), ICAR;
Sushil Chaturvedi, Indian Institute of Pulses Research;
Dadakhalandar Doddamani, ICRISAT;
Swapan K Datta, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR);
Gengyun Zhang, Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI);
Jun Wang, Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI);
Rajeev Varshney, ICRISAT
