IWGSC business meeting at IWGS 2008
24 August 2008, 9:00 am to 11:30 am: the eighth IWGSC business meeting was held in conjunction with the International Wheat Genetics Symposium at the Brisbane Convention Center in Brisbane, Qld, Australia (http://www.fcconventions.com.au/IWGS/).
Meeting Agenda
9.00 am – 11.30 am International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium
Open Business Meeting
Convenor: Rudi Appels
9.00 am Physical mapping projects
Kellye Eversole: Overview 3B (Etienne Paux), 3AS (Bikram Gill) and T. tauschii (Jan Dvorak): Discussion of key issues, problems encountered and solutions proposed so that new projects can be improved.
9.30 am Sequencing and database integration
Annotation pipelines based on discussions held internationally during 2007 and 2008 (James Breen)
URGI and TriAnnot automated annotation pipeline (France and EU project, Catherine Feuillet)
Graingenes (Olin Anderson)
Gramene and NCBI (Rudi Appels)
10.30 am Assigning the physical map to genetic maps for use in breeding
Strategies for accelerating genome specific marker development in wheat (Alain Murigneux, Biogemma)
The Sr2 region on chromosome 3B (Wolfgang Spielmeyer)
Options for large populations that can be analyzed for phenotype and high resolution molecular marker mapping (Colin Cavannagh)
11.30 am Close