News and Reports

The IWGSC will hold two scientific workshops and a business meeting at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference XX in San Diego, California, in January 2012.

The G20 group of nations approved the International Research Initiative for Wheat Improvement (IRIWI) in Paris in June 2011.

The IWGSC will hold a workshop on 4 September 2011 in Mexico City, Mexico, in conjunction with the International Triticeae Mapping Initiative (ITMI) workshop. The IWGSC workshop will be held from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm (with a break for lunch) in the Sala Murillo room at the Hotel Sevilla, Mexico City, Mexico. Project leaders and team members of the IWGSC physical mapping, survey sequencing, and MTP sequencing project will present the status and results of their projects. We hope to accommodate all of the project leaders as well as early career speakers. While the IWGSC workshop is free and open to everyone, we request that you register for the IWGSC workshop along with your ITMI registration. You may register for the IWGSC preconference workshop or ITMI at this website.

The IWGSC held its first training workshop in Prague, Czech Republic, on 7-8 April 2011 at the President Hotel.

The IWGSC will hold two workshops and a business meeting at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference XX.

On 12 January 2010, the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) organized a workshop to develop and discuss protocols and standards for the physical mapping of the hexaploid wheat genome and develop a consensus. In addition, the workshop surveyed the sequencing efforts undertaken within the consortium to coordinate the studies carried out in member laboratories. The goal was to ensure homogeneity in the procedures used for constructing the wheat physical maps by providing guidelines developed in expert laboratories and distributing these to the groups participating in the physical mapping and sequencing of bread wheat chromosomes under the auspice of the IWGSC.A workshop report can be found in the Annual Wheat Newsletter 2010 (Vol 56) at http://wheat.pw.usda.gov/ggpages/awn/56/TEXTFILES/IWGSC.pdf