NEWS - 1st TriticeaeGenome Annual Meeting at IPK (Gatersleben, Germany) + Joint workshop with the COST Action FA0604 TritiGen on the 1st day (open to public)
The 1st TriticeaeGenome project annual meeting was held in Gatersleben, Germany, from 22 to 24 April 2009. The meeting was organised at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) with the help of INRA Transfert. Financial support for the meeting was provided by the European Commission in the framework of FP7-TriticeaeGenome, COST Tritigen (FA0604) and IPK.
The first day meeting was a COST Tritigen/TriticeaeGenome project joint workshop, open to external members. In addition to the 42 TriticeaeGenome participants, over 45 external participants attended this first day meeting. The meeting began with information regarding the planning of the 3 days and IPK centre facilities by Nils Stein (IPK, Germany); a brief presentation about the history of the European Triticeae Genomics Initiative (ETGI) and its actions ( COST Tritigen, TG project) by Catherine Feuillet (INRA, France, ETGI and COST Tritigen co-chair and TG project Coordinator); an overview of the COST Tritigen (FA0604) by Alan Schulman (MTT, Finland, COST Tritigen chair) and a presentation of the IPK Research Campus and of project scope by Andreas Graner (IPK Gatersleben, Acting Director). A visit of 3 sites has been organised: the Genebank collection, cold storage and reference herbarium; the Plant Genome Resources Center; and the Lemnatec system/automated high throughput phenotyping greenhouse.
In the afternoon, two different sessions of plenary lectures were organised. The first one was a joint session with COST Tritigen WG2 (PhysGen) moderated by Pierre Sourdille (INRA, France) and was dedicated to physical mapping in wheat and barley, The second session was a joint session with COST Tritigen WG3 (TraitGen) and WG2A (Bioinformatics) moderated by Nils Rostoks (University of Latvia), on the use of model genomes, and bioinformatics resources, for the Triticeae. All presentations abstracts are available in Annex 1.
The second day of the meeting was opened only to the TriticeaeGenome members (42 participants) and was organised in (parallel and plenary) workshop sessions corresponding to the seven work packages with presentations and discussions of the results obtained since the beginning of the project in June 2008. Finally, during the third day meeting, 15 partners were present to continue some discussions and finalize decisions.
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