Syngenta , a world-leading plant science company committed to promoting sustainable agriculture through innovation research and technology, has been supporting the IWGSC since 2011.
We are proud to count this innovative plant breeding company as our sponsor. Since we first began partnering with Syngenta, their scientists have provided critical advice and suggestions for ensuring that the genomic tools the IWGSC develops will be those which industry needs to accelerate crop improvement.
Read the interview with Jan Gielen , Syngenta representative in the IWGSC Coordinating Committee.
Gabriel Keeble-Gagnère is a Senior Research Scientist at Agriculture Victoria (part of the Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions) in Melbourne, Australia.
Gabriel has been involved with the IWGSC since 2010. His first contributions were on the BAC-based assembly of chromosome 7A, as part of Rudi Appels’ group. Gabriel then joined the Pseudomolecule Group in 2016, with Frédéric Choulet and Martin Mascher. Most recently, he has contributed to the updated v2.0 assembly. Gabriel received an IWGSC Early Career Award in 2014 for his work on the chromosome 7A assembly and joined the IWGSC Coordinating Committee in 2018.
Read his interview here .
IWGSC Webinars15 July 2020 - Register here
A roadmap for gene functional characterization in wheat - Presented by Cristobal Uauy (John Innes Centre, UK)
29 June 2020 - More information
Multiple genome assemblies reveal alien introgressions and alternative haplotypes in elite wheat cultivars - Presented by Sean Walkowiak, Canadian Grain Commission, Canada
Harriet Benbow, postdoctoral research scientist at University College Dublin (Ireland), was awarded an IWGSC Early Career Award and a travel stipend to allowed her to travel to the Plant and Animal Genome Conference conference 2020 and present a talk during the IWGSC main workshop .
Read her profile and interview
here
In January 2020, at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference in San Diego (United States), the IWGSC presented an Outstanding Leadership Award to Vijay Tiwari
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.
- Gabriel Keeble-Gagnère Gabriel Keeble-Gagnère is a Senior Research Scientist at Agriculture Victoria (part of the Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions) in Melbourne...
- Webinar: A roadmap for gene functional characterization in wheat On 15 July 2020, the IWGSC will organize a webinar entitled "A roadmap for gene functional characterization in wheat" presented by Cristobal Uauy...
- Arbor Biosciences Joins the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium Lee’s Summit, Missouri, U.S. - 16 June 2020Arbor Biosciences, a division of Chiral Technologies, Inc and worldwide leader in next generation seque...
- Webinar: Multiple genome assemblies reveal alien introgressions and alternative haplotypes in elite wheat cultivars On 29 June 2020, the IWGSC organized a webinar in collaboration with the 10+ genome project entitled "Multiple genome assemblies reveal alien intr...
- 2019 Annual report In 2019, the IWGSC continued its efforts to provide breeders and the broader scientific community with a full genome sequence-based toolbox for wh...