Agenda - 4th Annual Meeting of the Chickpea Innovation Lab, December 2017
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Monday, December 11
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Opening session
5:30 – 5:45 pm Welcome and introductions
5:45 – 6:30 pm Overview of the activities and achievements of the Chickpea Innovation Lab: Doug Cook
7:00 pm Dinner
Tuesday, December 12
Inaugural session
9:00 am – 10:15 am
9:00 – 9:05 am Welcome: SP Wani, Director, RP-Asia
9:05 – 9:25 am Meeting objectives and expected outcomes: Doug Cook, Director Chickpea Innovation Lab
9:25 – 9:35 am Remarks: Peter Carberry, DDG, ICRISAT
9:35 – 9:45 am Remarks: David Bergvinson, DG, ICRISAT
9:45 am – 10:15 am Group photo and coffee break
Technical Session
10:15 am – 12:30 pm Understanding wild species dynamics
10:15 – 10:40 am Exploring the base: Jens Berger
10:40 – 11:05 am Ecology and population genetics to understand wild system dynamics: Eric von Wettberg
11:05 – 11:30 am Unraveling the history of selection in wild and cultivated lineages: Peter Chang
11:30 – 11:55 am Landraces as a source of cultivated diversity: Sergey Nuzhdin
11:55 – 12:20 pm Deciphering the wild microbiome: Doug Cook
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm Moving wild traits into the cultivated genepool
1:30 – 1:45 pm Systematic pre-breeding populations of wild x cultivated accessions: Doug Cook
1:45 – 2:20 pm GWAS and QTL analysis of yield-related traits: Sergey Nuzhdin
2:20 – 2:45 pm Heat tolerance and agronomic traits from wild accessions: Pooran Gaur
2:45 – 3:10 pm Wild progenitors as a source of drought tolerance: Jana Kholova and Vincent Vadez
3:10 – 3:35 pm Disease resistance: Doug Cook
3:35 pm – 4:00 pm Afternoon coffee break
4:30 pm – 6:30 pm Poster session and short presentations
7:00 pm Reception Dinner
Wednesday, December 13
8:00 am – 9:50 am Nitrogen fixation
8:00 – 8:25 am Diverse symbionts of chickpea: Alex Greenspan
8:25 – 8:55 am Development of commercial grade inocula: Guido Ramirez
8:55 – 9:20 am The Australian perspective: Graham O’Hara
9:20 – 9:45 am Towards commercial outcomes: Doug Cook
9:45 – 9:50 am Ground rules for year 5 planning sessions: Doug Cook
9:50 – 10:00 am Working Coffee break
10:00 am – 1:00 pm Parallel planning sessions 1 and 2
Session 1
Integrating genomics, phenotyping and genetics: knowledge-driven breeding
Panel Members: Pooran Gaur, Sergey Nuzhdin, Nigusie Girma, Lars Kamphius, Abdulkadir Aydogan, Sarvjeet Singh, Sushil Chaturvedi, Sabhyata Bhatia
Session 2
Harnessing chickpea’s microbes: nitrogen fixation and plant growth
promoting rhizobacteria
Panel Members: Graham O’Hara, Guido Ramirez, Doug Cook, Annapurna Kannepalli, Endalkachew Wolde-meskel, Fassil Assefa, Asfaw Hailemariam, S Gopalakrishnan
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm Lunch
2:30 pm – 4:30 pm ICRISAT field tours
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Poster session and short presentations
7:00 pm Dinner
Thursday, December 14
8:30 am – 12:00 pm Parallel Planning sessions 3, 4 and 5
Session 3
Designing and developing chickpea ideotypes for harsh climatic conditions
Panel Members: Vincent Vadez, Mehmet Yildirim, Kassahun Tesfaye, Jana Kholova, Jens Berger
Session 4
Making genomic, genetic and phenotypic data accessible and useful to breeders and other chickpea colleagues: analyzed data, databases, web access and views
Panel Members: Abishek Rathore, Peter Chang, Doug Cook, Benjamin Killian, Chris Ojiewo, Eric von Wettberg
Session 5
Designing and developing disease and pest resistant chickpea cultivars
Panel Members: Seid Kemal, Hari Sharma, Mekasha Chichaybelu, John Thompson, Canan Can, Bidyut Sarmah, Mamta Sharma, Asnake Fikre
10:00 am – 10:30 am Coffee break
10:30 am – 12:00 pm Parallel Planning sessions 3, 4 and 5, continued
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Discussion of objectives and partners for a phase 2 project
General introduction, then 5 minute summary of each parallel session,
followed by open discussion.
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Afternoon Break
3:30 pm –4:30 pm Closing session
Looking forward: Doug Cook
Remarks: Peter Carberry
Remarks: David Bergvinson
7:00 pm Dinner
Thursday evening and Friday, participants departure
