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IWGSC workshop and business meeting at PAG 2009

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The IWGSC workshop at the Plant and Animal Genome XVII Conference from 8:00 am – 10:10 am in the Town & Country room at the Town and Country Convention Center, San Diego.

The ninth IWGSC business meeting was held at Town and Country Convention Center, San Diego.

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Saturday Morning, 10 January 2009 --- 8:00 am - 10:10 pm

IWGSC - International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium Workshop - Town & Country

Co-organizers:

Kellye Eversole, IWGSC and Beat Keller, Institute for Plant Biology

Speakers:

8:00 am
Kellye Eversole, IWGSC/Eversole Associates
"Overview Of The Activities Of The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium"

8:10 am
Catherine Feuillet, INRA-UBP GDEC
"A Physical Map Of Chromosome 3B As A Foundation For Sequencing And Marker Development In Hexaploid Wheat "

8:30 am
Eduard Akhunov, Kansas State University
"Wheat Genome Sequencing: Testing The Utility Of Next Generation Sequencing Technologies "

8:50 am
Delphine Fleury, University of Adelaide
"Physical Mapping Of The Short Arm Of Chromosome 3 In Aegilops Tauschii And Barley "

9:10 am
Abraham Korol, University of Haifa
"Improving The Efficiency Of Contig Assembly For Physical Mapping"

9:30 am
Wolfgang Spielmeyer, CSIRO Plant Industry
"Molecular Dissection Of Durable Stem Rust Resistance Gene Locus In Wheat "

9:50 am
Beat Keller, University of Zurich
"IWGSC – IBSC Sequencing Technologies Workshop”, Paris, September 2008 "