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At the IWGSC workshop in Fargo, project leaders and team members of the IWGSC physical mapping, survey sequencing, and MTP sequencing projects presented the status and results of their projects.

Program

9:00 a.m. Eversole, Kellye. International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium. Welcome and introduction

9:10 a.m. Ogihara, Yasunari. Kihara Institute for Biological Research. Progress on DNA sequencing project of the wheat chromosome 6B in Japan. Slides

9:30 a.m. Olsen, Odd-Arne. Norwegian University of Life Science & Hamar University College. Project 7B – progress report. Slides

9:50 a.m. Feuillet, Catherine. INRA-University Blaise Pascal Joint Research Unit. A Reference Sequence of the bread Wheat Chromosome 3B and A High-Density 1BL Physical Map

10:25 a.m. Rudi Appels. Murdoch University. Report on chromosome 7A physical map and genome sequencing. Slides

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 a.m. Valárik, Miroslav. Institute of Experimental Botany. Towards the reference sequences of five chromosome arms of bread wheat (4AS, 4AL, 3DS, 7DS, and 7DL). Slides

11:45 a.m. Seghal, Sunish. Kansas State University. Physical and Genetic Framework of Chromosomes 3A, 1D, 4D, and 6D of Hexaploid Wheat. Slides

12:15 p.m. Barabaschi, Delfina. CRA – Genomic Research Centre. Recent advances in the physical mapping of wheat chromosome 5A. Slides

12:35 p.m. Poursarebani, Naser. Leibniz-Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK). Whole Genome Profiling^TM for physical mapping of wheat chromosome 6A. Slides

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 pm. Lunch

2:00 p.m. Kumar, Ajay. North Dakota State University. Toward high-resolution radiation hybrid-based physical maps of wheat genomes and chromosomes. Slides

2:20 p.m. Keller, Beat. University of Zurich. An integrated physical map of chromosome 1AS

2:40 p.m. Rogers, Jane. The Genome Analysis Centre. The IWGSC Survey Sequencing Initiative of Bread Wheat. Slides

3:10 p.m. Mayer, Klaus. MIPS/IBIS, German Research Center for Environmental Health. Zipping the Three Nephews. Slides

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 Coffee Break

4:00 p.m. Drader, Thomas. USDA-ARS-WRRC, Albany. A NimbleGen comparative genomic hybridization array for high-throughput physical mapping of genome specific repeat junction and gene-based markers in the D-genome of hexaploid wheat. Slides

4:20 p.m. Glover, Natasha. INRA-University Blaise Pascal Joint Research Unit. The distribution, duplication, pseudogenization, and expression of noncollinear genes of wheat chromosome 3B

4:40 p.m. Belova, Tatiana. Norwegian University of Life Science. Development of high-density NimbleGen microarray chip for genotyping of a radiation-hybrid panel of wheat chromosome 7B. Slides

Training Session

5 :00 p.m. Alaux, Michael. URGI (Unité de Recherche Génomique-Info), INRA, Versailles. Survey sequence repository improvements. How to map my favorite gene on the survey sequence of wheat. Slides

5:30 p.m. Concluding remarks