Arrival of the participants of the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative Annual Technical Workshop and registration at the Hotel Holiday Inn

May 30, Sunday

09:00-17:00

Borlaug Global Rust Initiative Annual Technical Workshop (refer to www.globalrust.org for detailed program).

19:00-21:00

BGRI Annual Technical Workshop Cocktail reception

May 31, Monday

09:00-17:00

Borlaug Global Rust Initiative Annual Technical Workshop

09:00-19:00

8th IWC registration at the Hotel Holiday Inn

19:00-20:30

8th IWC welcome cocktail «Get together»

June 1, Tuesday

08:00-09:00

8th IWC registration at the Hotel Holiday Inn

09:00-09:30

Opening: Welcome and opening lectures

09:00-09:20

Welcome, Vavilov Inst., Russia Government Representative, Chairman of the 8th IWC.

09:20-09:40

Nikolay Dzyubenko, All-Russian Institute of Plant Industry, St. Petersburg, Russia: “The legacy of Nikolay Vavilov”

09:40-10:00

Olga Mitrofanova,  N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Industry, St. Petersburg, Russia: “Wheat genetic resources research in Russia”

10:00 -10:30

Ambassador Kenneth M. Quinn, World Food Prize, USA : Dr. Norman Borlaug Memorial Lecture

10:30-11:00

Coffee-Break

11:00:12:30

Plenary Session 1: Current status and perspectives of global wheat research and production

11:00-11:30

Phillip Pardey, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA: Title to be announced.

11:30:11:50

Sergey Kiselev, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia: “Status and perspectives of wheat production in Russian Federation”

11:50-12:10

Jan Dvorak, University of California, Davis, USA:  “Current understanding of the evolution of wheat gene pools in light of N.I. Vavilov's theory of centers of diversity”

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:30

Plenary Session 2: Utilization of wheat genetic resources in breeding.

14:00-14:30

Andreas Boerner, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany: “Wheat genetic resources – how to exploit?”

15:30-16:00

Coffee-Break

16:00-17:20

Plenary Session 2 continues

17:20-19:00

Poster presentations: Topics 1, 2,6

18:00-22:00

Visit to the N.I. Vavilov Institute by groups of participants for overview excursion including N.I. Vavilov Museum, Cold Seed Storage and Herbarium

June 2, Wednesday

09:00-12:30

Plenary Session 3: Wheat genetics and breeding for abiotic stresses

10:30-11:00

Coffee-Break

11:00-12:30

Plenary Session 4: Wheat genetics and breeding for biotic stresses

11:00-11:30

Robert Loughman, Department of Agriculture of Western Australia, Perth, Australia:  Title to be announced

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:30

Plenary Session 4 continues:

14:00-14:30

R. McIntosh, Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney, Australia: BGRI status and perspectives

15:30-16:00

Coffee-Break

16:00-17:30

Plenary Session 5: Wheat breeding for yield potential

16:00-16:30

Daniel Calderini, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile: Title to be announced.

17:30-18:30

Poster presentations: Topics 3, 4, 5

19:00-23:00

Conference Dinner at Show Hall «Atmosphere»

June 3, Thursday

09:00-11:30

Plenary Session 6: Biotechnological and genomics tools in wheat improvement

09:00-09:30

Eduard. Akhunov, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA: Title to be provided.

10:30-11:00

Coffee-Break

11:00-11:20

Plenary Session 6 continues

11:00-11:20

Eversole, Kellye, International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium, USA: The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC):  a Genome Sequence Based Platform to Accelerate Wheat Improvement.

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-19:00

 Visit to the Catherine Palace in Pushkin                                            

19:00-22:00

Visit to the N.I. Vavilov Institute by groups of participants for overview excursion including N.I. Vavilov Museum, Cold Seed Storage and Herbarium

June 4, Friday

09:00-11:10

Concurrent  Session 7: Conservation agriculture technologies for wheat production

09:00-09:30

Ken Sayre, CIMMYT, Mexico:  Conservation Agriculture – providing the basis for the development of sustainable crop management.

11:10:11:30

Coffee-Break

09:00-11:10

Concurrent  Session 8: Wheat genetics and breeding for grain quality

09:00-09:30

Ron DePauw, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Research Station, Swift Current, Canada:  Delivery of end-use quality from the lab to the field to the plate.

11:10-11:30

Coffee-Break

11:30-12:30

Poster presentations: Topic 7,8

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-16:00

Concluding Plenary Session 10:  Global wheat research initiatives,9th International Wheat Conference

14:00-14:20

Matthew Reynolds, CIMMYT, Mexico: “Wheat Yield Potential Consortium “

14:20-14:40

Anne van Gastel, BASF: “ Hybrid Wheat Consortium”

14:40-15:00

Thomas Payne, CIMMYT, Mexico: “Seeds of Discivery”

15:00-15:20

Ed Runge, Monsanto, USA: “Monsanto Beachell-Borlaug Fellowship Program”

15:20-15:40

H.-J. Braun, CIMMYT. Mexico: “9th International Wheat Conference”

15:40-16:00

Closure of the conference

16:00-16:30

Coffee-Break