Agenda
Chickpea Innovation Lab 2016 Meeting
Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
Monday, May 30
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast
Opening Session
9:00–9:10 AM Introductions and Meeting Overview: Doug Cook
9:10–9:20 AM Welcome: Bahattin Tanyolac
Overviews
9:20–10:00 AM USAID Project Overview: Doug Cook
10:00–10:30 AM Australian Project Overview: Jens Berger
10:30–11:00 AM Morning Break
11:00–11:30 AM Canadian Project Overview: Donna Lindsay
Progress and Major Activities
11:30–12:00 PM Vincent Vadez: Drought
12:00–12:30 PM Sergey Nuzhdin: Landraces and the VIR
12:30–2:00 PM Lunch
2:00–2:15 PM Lijalem Balcha: Population development Davis, Ethiopia, India
2:15–2:30 PM Abdullah Kaharman: Population development Turkey
2:30–2:50 PM Varma Penmetsa and Jana Kholova: Stay green chickpea
2:50–3:10 PM Eric von Wettberg: Mapping Future Climate Space in Ethiopia
3:10–3:30 PM Afternoon break
3:30–4:00 PM Peter Chang: Mining the wild genome
4:00–4:20 PM Vasantika Suryawanshi: Reference genomes
4:20–4:40 PM Sultan Yimer and Dagnachew Besha: Fusarium oxysporum
4:40–5:00 PM Noel Ellis: 150 Years since Mendel
6:30 PM Dinner on campus
Tuesday, May 31
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast
8:30–8:40 AM Doug Cook: Logistics for the day
Allied Projects
8:40–9:00 AM Chris Ojiewo: TL3 in Africa
9:00–9:20 AM Kassahun Tesfaye: NSF PEER
9:20–9:40 AM Endalkachew Wolde-meskel: N2 Africa
9:40–10:00 AM Graham O’Hara: AU nitrogen fixation
10:00–10:20 AM Bidyut Sarmah: Chickpea transgenics
10:20–10:40 AM Morning Break
10:40–11:00 AM Pooran Gaur: ICRISAT breeding activities for South Asia
11:00–11:20 AM Annapurna Kannepalli: Indian nitrogen fixation
11:20–11:40 AM Hari Sharma: Pod Borer
11:40–12:00 PM Damaris Odeny: GWAS in chickpea
12:00–12:20 PM Adamu Molla, Zewdie Bishaw, Seid Ahmed Kemal: ICARDA USAID activities
12:40–2:00 PM Lunch
Parallel Working Groups
2:00 PM Begin
3:30–4:00 PM Afternoon break
5:00 PM End
6:30 PM Dinner in Town
Group 1
Nitrogen Fixation:
Field Trials, Strains, Plant Traits
Moderators: Doug Cook, Endalkachew Wolde-meskel and Annapurna Kannepalli
Group 2
Population Development, EGS and Landrace Phenotyping and Pre-breeding
Moderators: Varma Penmetsa and Abdullah Kaharman
Group 3
Genomics and Computation
Moderators: Peter Chang and Sergey Nuzhdin
NOTE on Parallel working groups.
The primary goals of the working group discussions are:
- Enumerate and finalize plans for the coming year
- Identify new and or modified activities for the project
- Discuss synergies and identify points for collaboration among the various projects.
In each of the above cases, participants should define: (1) activities, priorities and partners, (2) logistics, (3) timeframes, (4) costs and (5) limitations.
Wednesday, June 1
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast
Parallel Working Groups
9:00 AM Begin
10:30–11:00 AM Morning break
11:00–12:00 PM End
Group 1
Drought Phenotyping/Characterization, Genes
Moderators: Vincent Vadez and Michel Ghanem
Group 2
Fusarium and Disease Resistance Breeding
Moderators: Seid Kemal, Nigusie Wordofa and Doug Cook
12:00 PM Depart for AARI and Lunch
5:00 PM Return to campus
6:00 PM Dinner on campus
Thursday, June 2
7:30–8:30 AM Breakfast
Working Group Reports
9:00–12:30 AM Nitrogen fixation
Population development, phenotyping and pre–breeding
Drought tolerance
Genomics and computation
Fusarium and disease resistance
12:30–2:00 PM Lunch
2:00–3:00 PM Wrap–up session
3:00–5:00 PM PI/COPI – Advisory Board Meeting
7:00 PM Dinner at Restaurant
Friday, June 3
Participants Depart