2018 ICGI Conference Program (0525)

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Date	Morning	Afternoon	Evening
Monday May 28, 2018		Badge Pickup starts from 4 pm	Welcome Reception
Tuesday May 29, 2018	Breeding and Applied Genomics	Structural Genomics	Group Dinner
Wednesday May 30, 2018	Germplasm and Genetic Stocks	Functional Genomics	Dinner on your own
Thursday May 31, 2018	Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics	On your own to explore Edinburgh
Friday June 1, 2018	Chartered Bus Tour

May 28	Activities
*4 - 6 pm*	*Badge Pickup JMCC Foyer*
*6 - 7 pm*	*Executive Committee Meeting JMCC Salisbury*
*7 - 9 pm*	*Welcome Reception JMCC Centro*


May 29 AM Breeding and Applied Genomics
7:30 am	*Breakfast JMCC Cafe*
8:30 am	*Welcome*
8:45 am	Plenary	John Hickey	Technology is driving the re-integration of plant and animal breeding to their mutual benefit
9:15 am	Plenary	Chee, Peng	Transcriptome analysis of upland cotton roots at two critical stages of Meloidogyne incognita infection and development.
9:45 am	15'-1	Gapare, Washington	Prospects for genomic selection in cotton breeding: an Australian case study
10:00 am	15'-2	Zhang, Xianlong	Cotton genomics is providing rational ways for gene finding and genetic improvement
10:15 am	*Beverage break*
10:45 am	15'-3	Chomet, Paul	Moving beyond a single reference genome: GenoMagic, a novel solution to describe and manage genomic variation
11:00 am	5'-1	Scheffler, Jodi	Proactive breeding for cotton diseases through international collaborations
11:05 am	5'-2	Fan, Shuli	Research progress of short-season cotton in China
11:10 am	5'-3	Hugie, Kari	Dissentangling the relationships between high-throughput phenotyping traits, lint yield and yield components in an exotic cotton population
11:15 am	5'-4	Lin, Zhongxu	Genetic basis of the agronomic traits of white and brown fiber upland cotton in China revealed by a genome-wide association study
11:20 am	5'-5	Pauli, Duke	Multivariate analysis of the cotton seed ionome reveals integrated genetic signatures of abiotic stress response
11:25 am	5'-6	Koebernick, Jenny	Testing and validating alleles (or QTLs) conferring resistance to reniform nematode, Rotylenchulus reniformis, from M713 Ren4 in a different genetic background
11:30 am	5'-7	Wang, Furong	Construction of high-density SNP- and SSR-based genetic map and identification of candidate genes for fiber quality and yield traits using an introgressed recombinant inbred line population of upland cotton
11:35 am	5'-8	Zhang, Jingxia	A novel virus induced gene silencing method and its application in functional analysis of cotton BAX inhibitor 1 in cotton
*12:00 pm*	*Lunch JMCC Cafe*
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May 29 PM Structural Genomics
1:00 pm	Plenary	Chen, Z. Jeffrey	Sequencing and comparative analyses of polyploid cotton genomes
1:30 pm	Plenary	Zhang, Tianzhen	Reference genome sequences of two cultivated allotetraploid cottons
2:00 pm	15'-1	Guo, Wanzhen	Development of high-density 80K SNP array and its evaluation and application in G. hirsutum
2:15 pm	15'-2	Yuan, Youlu	Identifying QTL for fiber yield and fiber quality related traits in an upland RIL population with a high-density genetic map on the whole genome
2:30 pm	15'-3	Shang, Xiaoguang	Cotton beta-glucosidase gene GhBG1A coordinates fiber transition from elongation to secondary cell wall deposition
2:45 pm	*Beverage break*
3:15 pm	5'-1	Shen, Xinlian	Exploitation of favorable gene resource by a synthetic hexaploid derived from an interspecific hybrid between Gossypium hirsutum and G. anomalum
3:20 pm	5'-2	Song, Guoli	Progress in cotton functional genomics and structural genomics
3:25 pm	5'-3	Fang, David	EMS-induced short cotton fiber mutant ligon lintless-y (liy) and its genomic location
3:30 pm	5'-4	Ishwarappa, S Katageri	Detection of SNPs from Gossypium barbadense L. cotton through whole-genome resequencing and their utilization
3:35 pm	5'-5	Li, Zhikun	Evolutionary, transcriptomic and functional analyses revealed a GST cluster played an important role in Verticillium wilt resistance in Gossypium hirsutum
3:40 pm	5'-6	Wang, Hongmei	Dissection of a Verticillium wilt resistance QTL on chromosome At_chr9 in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)
3:45 pm	5'-7	Yang, Daigang	Diallel analysis of Ekangmian 9 and other cotton varieties apparently resistant to Fusarium Wilt and tolerant to Verticillium Wilt
3:50 pm	5'-8	Yuan, Youlu	Genome wide QTL mapping for resistance to Verticillium wilt, fiber quality and yield traits in cotton chromosome segment substitution lines
3:55 pm	5'-9	Zhang, Yan	Laccase gene, GhLAC15, enhanced Verticillium wilt resistance via increasing defense-induced lignification and arabinose and xylose accumulation in the cell wall of Gossypium hirsutum
4:00 pm	Business Meeting
*6:30 pm*	The Caves Group Dinner, 12 Niddry Street South with music by Jack and the Box
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May 30 AM Germplasm and Genetic Stocks
7:30 am	*Breakfast JMCC Cafe*
8:30 am	Plenary	Udall, Joshua A	The origin, diversity, and domestication of tetraploid cotton (G. hirsutum L. and G. barbadense L.)
9:00 am	Plenary	Campbell, Todd	Prospects for using primitive landrace germplasm for cotton improvement
9:30 am	15'-1	Du, Xiongming	Introgression leads to genetic divergence for maturity and fiber quality in upland cotton
9:45 am	15'-2	Ma, Zhiying	Genome-wide association study identifies the loci and genes related to days to flowering, fiber length and strength in Gossypium hirsutum
10:00 am	15'-3	Zhou, Baoliang	Inducement and identification of chromosome introgression and translocation of Gossypium australe on Gossypium hirsutum
10:15 am	*Beverage break*
10:45 am	5'-1	Ye, Wuwei	Cotton DNA methylation and its analysis under the salt- & draught-stress
10:50 am	5'-2	Hague, Steve	Utility of Germplasm from the NPGS in the Texas A&M University cotton breeding program
10:55 am	5'-3	Farooq, Muhammad	Genotypic variations in salinity tolerance among BT-cotton
11:00 am	5'-4	Buyyarapu, Ramesh	Development of reniform nematode resistance in cotton through molecular breeding
11:05 am	*Poster Session 1*
12:00 pm	*Lunch JMCC Cafe*
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May 30 PM Functional Genomics
1:00 pm	Plenary	Jin, Shuangxia	Recent progress and future prospect of cotton genome editing
1:30 pm	Plenary	Zhu, Yuxian	Upgraded genome assembly reveals the key importance of TEs, in-dels, SNPs and point mutations during the evolution of spinnable cotton fibres
2:00 pm	15'-1	Zhu, Qian-Hao	Temporal expression of MYB25-like homoeologs controls lint and fuzz development in cotton
2:15 pm	15'-2	Zhang, Dayong	GhDRP1 regulates the drought response by directly interacting with GhHT1 in upland cotton
2:30 pm	15'-3	Husnain, Tayyab	Multiple gene transformation in cotton to improve insect, weedicide resistance and fibre improvement
2:45 pm	*Beverage break*
3:15 pm	5'-1	Tu, Lili	Ascorbate regulates cotton fiber development
3:20 pm	5'-2	Zhu, Longfu	Cotton employs multiple signal pathways for resistance to V. dahliae
3:25 pm	5'-3	Guo, Qi	Overexpression of a samphire high-affinity potassium transporter gene SbHKT enhances salt stress tolerance in transgenic cotton
3:30 pm	5'-4	Wang, Xingfen	An LRR-TM gene in Dt09 confers Verticillium wilt resistance by activating SA signaling in cotton
3:35 pm	5'-5	Yan, Yuanyuan	Systematic analysis of cotton non-specific lipid transfer proteins revealed a clade of genes that play an important role in fiber development
3:40 pm	5'-6	Yang, Jun	HyPRP1 performs a role in negatively regulating cotton resistance to V. dahliae via the thickening of cell walls and ROS accumulation
3:45 pm	5'-7	Ling, Min	High temperature stress disrupts genome methylation distinctively affects microspore abortion and anther indehiscence
3:50 pm	5'-8	Guan, Xueying	The role of noncoding RNA pattern and function in fiber cell
4:00 pm	Poster Session 2
	*Dinner on your own*
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May 31	Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics
7:30 am	*Breakfast JMCC Cafe*
8:30 am	Plenary	Wendel, Jonathan F.	Biodiversity and the evolution of the cotton genome
9:00 am	Plenary	Main, Dorrie	CottonGen: a database resource for genomics, genetics and breeding research
9:30 am	15'-1	Wang, Maojun	Comparative analysis of 3D genome organization in cotton reveals the topological basis for transcriptional divergence during polyploidization
9:45 am	15'-2	Yu, Jing	CottonGen BIMS for effective and efficient management of breeding data
10:00 am	15'-3	Peterson, Daniel G	Kokia, Gossypioides, and Their Sister, Gossypium
10:15 am	*Beverage break*
10:45 am	5'-1	Cheng, Chun-Huai	How to effectively search and download data in CottonGen
10:50 am	5'-2	Hulse-Kemp, Amanda	Maximizing utility of community-based resources: CottonSNP arrays
10:55 am	5'-3	Zheng, Ping	Visualization of conserved syntenic blocks among six cotton genomes in CottonGen
11:00 am	5'-4	Buble, Katheryn	Using TripalMap for genetics research
11:05 am	5'-5	Xu, Zhenzhen	GrTEdb: the first web-based database of transposable elements in cotton (Gossypium raimondii)
11:10 am	5'-6	Zhao, Tianlun	Genome-wide analysis of four upland cotton germplasms with different types of pigment glands based on next-generation sequencing
11:15 am	5'-7	Zhu, Guozhong	Genomic screening for artificial selection during domestication and improvement in Upland cotton
11:20 am	*Poster Session 3*
12:00 pm	Lunch JMCC Cafe
	Afternoon on your own to explore Edinburgh
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June 1	Bus Tour
7:00 am	*Breakfast JMCC Cafe*
7:30 am	Load Buses
9:15 am	*James Hutton Institute*
	Gaynor Mackenzie & Robbie Waugh
12:00 pm	*Blair Athol Distillery*
1:00 pm	*Edradour Distillery*
2:30 pm	*Blair Castle (lunch)*
6:00 pm	*Arrive in Edinburgh*
	*Dinner on your own*
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