Manuel Spannagl is Senior Scientist and Deputy Group Leader in the Plant Genome and Systems Biology (PGSB) group of Klaus Mayer at the Helmholtz Zentrum München in Germany. PGSB (formerly MIPS) has been engaged in the development of plant genome bioinformatics for over 15 years and has generated annotation for many plant genomes.
Manuel joined the IWGSC in 2008 and has been involved in the IWGSC survey sequence and the reference sequence projects.
Read his interview here .
PAG 2019
Saturday 12 January
IWGSC Workshop
8:00 to 10:10 am - Town & Country
Business Meeting
6:20 to 8:30 pm - Pacific Salon 4-5
Tuesday 15 January
Manual and Functional Annotation Workshop
1:30 to 5:30 pm - Pacific Salon 2
On 17 August 2018, the IWGSC published in the international journal Science a detailed description and an analysis of the reference sequence of the bread wheat genome, the world’s most widely cultivated crop.
This work will pave the way for the production of wheat varieties better adapted to climate challenges, with higher yields, enhanced nutritional quality and improved sustainability.
The research article – authored by more than 200 scientists from 73 research institutions in 20 countries – presents the DNA sequence of the bread wheat variety Chinese Spring ordered along the 21 wheat chromosomes. It is the highest quality genome sequence produced to date for wheat.
Read the IWGSC press release and the information package about the publication (Q&A, quotes, media kit, and more).
Watch this explainer video and this interview video to learn more about the IWGSC reference sequence of bread wheat.
Since 2007, the IWGSC has included an early career speaker in all of its sponsored workshops. The goal is to engage young and early career scientists in wheat genomics broadly and in the IWGSC specifically.
The latest awardee is Carolina Sansaloni, Scientist at CIMMYT. She will present a talk entitled: "Studying Global Wheat Genetic Diversity of Germplasm" at the IWGSC workshop at PAG on Saturday 12 January 2019.
Read her interview here
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In January 2018, at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference in San Diego (United States), the IWGSC presented an Outstanding Leadership Award to Catherine Feuillet in recognition for her unwavering leadership, support, and dedication to the IWGSC over the last 13 years.
Hélène Rimbert , Manuel Spannagl and David Swarbreck received IWGSC Leadership Awards for their leaderships in the annotation of the IWGSC reference sequence of bread wheat. Cristobal Uauy, Philippa Borrill and Ricardo Ramirez-Gonzalez received IWGSC Leadership Awards for their leaderships in the functional annotation and analysis of the IWGSC reference sequence.
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