2008 ICGI Research Conference
Anyang, China
July 8-11, 2008
Conference Program
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(open 8:00AM Tuesday and close 6:00PM Friday)
| 8:00 | AM - | 6:00 | PM | Arrival, Registration, and Poster Setup | |||||
| 4:00 | PM - | 5:30 | PM | ICGI Steering Committee Meeting | |||||
| 5:30 | PM - | 8:00 | PM | Welcome Reception (with dinner at 6:30PM) |
| 8:30 | AM - | 9:45 | AM | Opening Ceremony (Kunbo Wang, Richard Percy) | |||||
| Welcome remarks (Shuxun Yu) | |||||||||
| Opening remarks: ICGI perspectives (John Z. Yu) | |||||||||
| Comments and responses from Chinese officials and ICGI representatives | |||||||||
| 9:45 | AM - | 10:10 | AM | Group Photo | |||||
| 10:10 | AM - | 10:30 | AM | Coffee or Tea | |||||
| 10:30 | AM - | 12:10 | PM | Plenary Session I (Don Jones, Fuguang Li) | |||||
| 10:30 | AM - | 10:50 | AM | Andrew H. Paterson, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA | |||||
| "Sequencing the cotton genomes - Gossypium spp" (K1) | |||||||||
| 10:50 | AM - | 11:10 | AM | Shuxun Yu, National Cotton Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, China | |||||
| "Sequencing of the cultivated tetraploid cotton genome - Gossypium hirsutum" (K2) | |||||||||
| 11:10 | AM - | 11:30 | AM | Thea A. Wilkins, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA | |||||
| "Sequencing of the cultivated diploid cotton genome - Gossypium arboreum" (K3) | |||||||||
| 11:30 | AM - | 11:50 | AM | Tianzhen Zhang, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China | |||||
| "Genomic differentiation between G. barbadense and G. hirsutum" (K4) | |||||||||
| 11:50 | AM - | 12:10 | PM | Curt L. Brubaker, Bayer CropScience, Gent, Belgium | |||||
| "What will we do with a cotton genome sequence?" (K5) | |||||||||
| 12:10 | PM - | 1:30 | PM | Lunch | |||||
| 1:30 | PM - | 3:10 | PM | Plenary Session II (David Stelly, Edina Moresco) | |||||
| 1:30 | PM - | 1:50 | PM | Xiaoya Chen, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China | |||||
| "A new strategy of insect pest control: Down-regulating cotton bollworm gene expression by engineering plant double stranded RNA" (K6) | |||||||||
| 1:50 | PM - | 2:10 | PM | Elizabeth Dennis, CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia | |||||
| "Expression profiling identifies candidate genes for fiber yield and quality" (K7) | |||||||||
| 2:10 | PM - | 2:30 | PM | Yuxian Zhu, Peking University, Beijing, China | |||||
| "Biochemical pathways that play important roles during cotton fiber cell elongation" (K8) | |||||||||
| 2:30 | PM - | 2:50 | PM | Ibrokhim Abdurakhmonov, Institute of Genetics and Plant Experimental Biology, Uzbek Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan | |||||
| "Global annotation of small RNA and microRNA mature sequences from developing ovules of G. hirsutum L" (K9) | |||||||||
| 2:50 | PM - | 3:10 | PM | James McD Stewart, University of Arkansas, Fyetteville, Arkansas, USA | |||||
| "New methods in genomic research of plants" (K10) | 3:10 | PM - | 3:30 | PM | Coffee or Tea | ||||
| 3:30 | PM - | 5:10 | PM | Plenary Session III (Russell Kohel, Abdusattor Adukarimov) | |||||
| 3:30 | PM - | 3:50 | PM | Richard G. Percy, USDA-ARS, College Station, Texas, USA | |||||
| "Cotton germplasm collections: Opportunities and challenges" (K11) | |||||||||
| 3:50 | PM - | 4:10 | PM | Charudatta D. Mayee, Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board (ICAR), New Delhi, India | |||||
| "Biodiversity of cotton germplasm in India and its use for genetic enhancement" (K12) | |||||||||
| 4:10 | PM - | 4:30 | PM | Roy G. Cantrell, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, USA | |||||
| "Utilization of cotton DNA markers in cotton breeding" (K13) | |||||||||
| 4:30 | PM - | 4:50 | PM | Jean-Marc Lacape, CIRAD, Montpellier, France | |||||
| "Challenges in cotton molecular breeding at CIRAD" (K14) | |||||||||
| 4:50 | PM - | 5:10 | PM | Parchuri Vidyasagar, Vibha Agrotech Ltd, Hyderabad, India | |||||
| "Introgression of Bt genes in novel germplasm and contribution to Indian cotton economy" (K15) | |||||||||
| 6:30 | PM - | 8:30 | PM | Welcome Banquet |
| 8:00 | AM - | 10:00 | AM | Concurrent Sessions (A1 and B1) | |||||
| Room A: Structural Genomics (Jean-Marc Lacape, Andrew Paterson) | |||||||||
| 8:00 | AM - | 8:15 | AM | Keyun Feng, Gansu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, China | |||||
| "Improvement of fiber quality by distant hybridization in the green cotton" (W1) | |||||||||
| 8:15 | AM - | 8:30 | AM | Zhongxu Lin, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China | |||||
| "QTL analysis in tetraploid cotton" (W2) | |||||||||
| 8:30 | AM - | 8:45 | AM | Zhengsheng Zhang, Southwest University, Chongqing, China | |||||
| "Construction of genetic linkage map and QTL mapping for fiber quality in Upland cotton" (W3) | |||||||||
| 8:45 | AM - | 9:00 | AM | Youlu Yuan, Cotton Research Institute of CAAS, Anyang, Henan, China | |||||
| "QTL Analysis of fiber yield and quality and resistance to verticillium wilt using Gossypium hirsutum and G. barbadense advanced backcross populations" (W4) | |||||||||
| 9:00 | AM - | 9:15 | AM | Zhanyou Xu, USDA-ARS, College Station, Texas, USA | |||||
| "An integrated genetic-physical and transcript map of homoeologous chromosomes 12 and 26 in Upland cotton (G. hirsutum L.)" (W5) | |||||||||
| 9:15 | AM - | 9:30 | AM | Wuwei Ye, Cotton Research Institute of CAAS, Anyang, Henan, China | |||||
| "Differential Expression of Salinity Resistance gene on Cotton" (W6) | |||||||||
| 9:30 | AM - | 9:45 | AM | Kunbo Wang, Cotton Research Institute of CAAS, Anyang, Henan, China | |||||
| "Toward molecular cytogenetical characterizations in cotton genome" (W7) | |||||||||
| 9:45 | AM - | 10:00 | AM | Wangzhen Guo, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China | |||||
| "Toward elucidating the structure of tetraploid cotton genome" (W8) | |||||||||
| Room B: Germplasm & Genetic Stocks I (Sukumar Saha, Shuxun Yu) | |||||||||
| 8:00 | AM - | 8:15 | AM | Xiongming Du, Cotton Research Institute of CAAS, Anyang, Henan, China | |||||
| "Collection, evaluation and utilization of cotton germplasm in China" | |||||||||
| 8:15 | AM - | 8:30 | AM | Saydaliyev Khakimjon, Institute of Genetics and Plant Experimental Biology, Uzbek Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan | |||||
| "World collection of cotton" (W25) | |||||||||
| 8:30 | AM - | 8:45 | AM | Todd Campbell, USDA-ARS, Florence, South Carolina, USA | |||||
| "Trivial sources of heterosis in cotton?" (W26) | |||||||||
| 8:45 | AM - | 9:00 | AM | Mohammad Reza Ramazani Moghaddam, Cotton Research Stayion of Kashmar, Kashmar, Khorasane-Razavi, Iran | |||||
| "Genetic diversity and relationships among diploid and tetraploid cotton using RAPD Markers" (W27) | |||||||||
| 9:00 | AM - | 9:15 | AM | Zhaohui Liu, Sichuan Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Jianyang, Sichuan, China | |||||
| "Fingerprinting analysis of the introgressed lines from Gossypium hirsutum L. and Gossypium barbadense L based on AFLP Markers" (W28) | |||||||||
| 9:15 | AM - | 9:30 | AM | Fuguang Li, Cotton Research Institute of CAAS, Anyang, Henan, China | |||||
| "Main achievements of cotton large-scale transformation system" (W29) | |||||||||
| 9:30 | AM - | 9:45 | AM | Shehu Ado, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna, Nigeria | |||||
| "Cotton Research and Development at the Institute for Agricultural Research in Samaru, Nigeria" (W30) | |||||||||
| 9:45 | AM - | 10:00 | AM | Yehua Yang, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China | |||||
| "Transgene polymerization in cotton improvement" W(31) | |||||||||
| 10:00 | AM - | 10:15 | AM | Coffee or Tea | |||||
| 10:15 | AM - | 12:00 | PM | Concurrent Sessions (A2 and B2) | |||||
| Room A: Functional Genomics I (Xiaoya Chen, Thea Wilkins) | |||||||||
| 10:15 | AM - | 10:30 | AM | Z. Jeffrey Chen, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA | |||||
| "Transcriptome and functional analysis of fiber-related gene expression in cotton" (W9) | |||||||||
| 10:30 | AM - | 10:45 | AM | Khairy Soliman, Alabama A&M University, Normal, AL 35762, USA | |||||
| "Identification of differentially expressed genes associated with cotton fiber development in a chromosomal substitution line (CS-B22sh)" (W10) | |||||||||
| 10:45 | AM - | 11:00 | AM | Baohong Zhang, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA | |||||
| "Identification of conserved cotton microRNAs and their targets" (W11) | |||||||||
| 11:00 | AM - | 11:15 | AM | Ufuk Demirel, Harran University, Agricultural Faculty, Tanlyurfa, Turkey | |||||
| "Heat stress related gene expression in Gossypium hirsutum L." (W12) | |||||||||
| 11:15 | AM - | 11:30 | AM | Weichang Yu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China | |||||
| "Engineered plant minichromosome and its application in genomics and genetic engineering" (W13) | |||||||||
| 11:30 | AM - | 11:45 | AM | Xianlong Zhang, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, china | |||||
| "Cotton genome manipulations: exploring smart tools, novel germplasm and elite genes for super cotton design" (W14) | |||||||||
| 11:45 | AM - | 12:00 | AM | Zhiying Ma, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, Hebei, China | |||||
| "Molecular cloning and characterization of the actin-depolymerizing factor gene in Gossypium barbadense" (W15) | |||||||||
| Room B: Germplasm & Genetic Stocks II (Sukumar Saha, Shuxun Yu) | |||||||||
| 10:15 | AM - | 10:30 | AM | Ishwarappa Katageri, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, India | |||||
| "G.herbaceum negative mutant for fibre elongation a useful isoline for identification of genes for fibre elongation" (W32) | |||||||||
| 10:30 | AM - | 10:45 | AM | David M. Stelly, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA | |||||
| "Interspecific chromosome substitution lines as genetic resources for improvement, trait analysis and genomic inference" (W33) | |||||||||
| 10:45 | AM - | 11:00 | AM | Xiangmo Guo, Cotton Research Institute of CAAS, Anyang, Henan, China | |||||
| "Constructing molecular marker linkage map of chromosome 14Sh and 22Sh and QTL mapping for major traits by use of substitution lines of G. hirsutum L" (W34) | |||||||||
| 11:00 | AM - | 11:15 | AM | Liuming Wang, Shandong Cotton Research Center, Jinan, Shandong, China | |||||
| "The Utilization of HB-red flower in hybrid cotton breeding" (W35) | |||||||||
| 11:15 | AM - | 11:30 | AM | Jodi Scheffler, USDA-ARS, Stoneville, Mississippi, USA | |||||
| "Genetics of gossypol content and its racemic forms" (W36) | |||||||||
| 11:30 | AM - | 11:45 | AM | Shuijin Zhu, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China | |||||
| "Characterization of a novel glyphosate tolerant upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) mutant (R1098)" (W37) | |||||||||
| 11:45 | AM - | 12:00 | AM | Shuxun Yu, Cotton Research Institute of CAAS, Anyang, Henan, China | |||||
| "Cotton Molecular Improvement in China" (W38) | |||||||||
| 12:00 | PM - | 1:00 | PM | Lunch | |||||
| 1:00 | PM - | 5:00 | PM | Local Facilities and Culture Tours (Kunbo Wang, Youlu Yuan) | |||||
| 6:00 | PM - | 7:00 | PM | Dinner | |||||
| 7:00 | PM - | 9:00 | PM | Panel Discussion on Cotton Genome Sequencing (John Yu, Marc Giband) | |||||
| Jian Wang, Beijing Genomics Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China | |||||||||
| "Advances in sequencing the plant genomes" | |||||||||
| Panelists: | |||||||||
| Andrew H. Paterson, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA; | |||||||||
| Shuxun Yu, National Cotton Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, China; | |||||||||
| Thea A. Wilkins, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA; | |||||||||
| Tianzhen Zhang, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; | |||||||||
| Curt L. Brubaker, Bayer CropScience, Gent, Belgium; | |||||||||
| Z. Jeffrey Chen, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA; | |||||||||
| Ramesh Kantety, Alabama A&M University, Normal, Alabama, USA; | |||||||||
| Jian Wang, Beijing Genomics Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China |
| 8:00 | AM- | 10:00 | AM | Concurrent Sessions (A3 and B3) | |||||
| Room A: Functional Genomics II (Xiaoya Chen, Thea Wilkins) | |||||||||
| 8:00 | AM - | 8:15 | AM | Muhammad Azhar, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), Faisalabad, Pakistan | |||||
| "Identification and cloning of resistance gene analogues (RGAs) encoding NBS-LRR proteins from Gossypium arboreum L." (W16) | |||||||||
| 8:15 | AM - | 8:30 | AM | Kanniah Rajasekaran, USDA-ARS, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA | |||||
| "Transgenic cotton and disease resistance genes" (W17) | |||||||||
| 8:30 | AM - | 8:45 | AM | Yan Pei, Southwest University, Chongqing, China | |||||
| "Improvements of fiber yield and fiber fineness by expressing the iaaM gene in cotton seed coat" (W18) | |||||||||
| 8:45 | AM - | 9:00 | AM | Xue-Bao Li, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, China | |||||
| "Cotton PIP2;3 and PIP2;4 preferentially expressed in fibers display high water channel activity and function in cell elongation and tolerance to stresses" (W19) | |||||||||
| 9:00 | AM - | 9:15 | AM | Jinjie Cui, Cotton Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, China | |||||
| "Effects of transgenic Cry1Ac plus CpTI cotton on the bioecology of main parasitoids in laboratory" (W20) | |||||||||
| 9:15 | AM - | 9:30 | AM | Yuehua Xiao, Southwest University, Chongqing, China | |||||
| "Transcriptional analysis of the relationship of proanthocyanidins biosynthesis to the brown pigmentation in cotton fiber" (W21) | |||||||||
| 9:30 | AM - | 9:45 | AM | Lili Tu, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China | |||||
| "Isolation and analysis of expansins from the sea-island cotton elongating fiber" (W22) | |||||||||
| 9:45 | AM - | 10:00 | AM | Barbara A. Triplett, USDA-ARS, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA | |||||
| "Defining the transition from cell elongation to secondary cell wall biosynthesis: promoter analyses, transcript profiling, and genomic analysis of near-isogenic germplasms that differ in fiber strength" (W23) | |||||||||
| Room B: Bioinformatics and Evolutionary & Comparative Genomics (Brian Scheffler, Jing Yu, David Stelly, Peng Chee) | |||||||||
| 8:00 | AM - | 8:15 | AM | Jun Zhu, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China | |||||
| "System quantitative genetics for improving complex traits" (W39) | |||||||||
| 8:15 | AM - | 8:30 | AM | Manali Kshirsagar, Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering, Nagpur, India | |||||
| "Data mining strategy for gene prediction with special reference to cotton genome" (W40) | |||||||||
| 8:30 | AM - | 8:45 | AM | Don Jones, Cotton Incorporated, Cary, North Carolina, USA | |||||
| "Cotton Marker Database (CMD) as an enhanced resource for cotton research community" (W41) | |||||||||
| 8:45 | AM - | 9:00 | AM | Jing Yu, USDA-ARS, College Station, Texas, USA | |||||
| "CottonDB Enhancement" (W42) | |||||||||
| 9:00 | AM - | 9:15 | AM | Peng Chee, University of Georgia, Tifton, Georgia, USA | |||||
| "Comparative genetics of floral morphology in diploid and allotetraploid Gosypium" (W43) | |||||||||
| 9:15 | AM - | 9:30 | AM | Guoli Song, Cotton Research Institute, CAAS, Anyang, Henan, China | |||||
| "FISH analysis of tetraploid cotton species" | |||||||||
| 9:30 | AM - | 9:45 | AM | Vijay Waghmare, Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur, India | |||||
| "Comparative transmission genetics of introgressed chromatin in Gossypium species" (W45) | |||||||||
| 9:45 | AM - | 10:00 | AM | TBD | |||||
| 10:00 | AM- | 10:15 | AM | Coffee or Tea | |||||
| 10:15 | AM- | 12:00 | PM | Concurrent Workgroup Discussions (1, 2, 3, 4, & 5) | |||||
| Room 1: Structural Genomics (Jean-Marc Lacape, Andrew Paterson) | |||||||||
| Room 2: Functional Genomics (Xiaoya Chen, Thea Wilkins) | |||||||||
| Room 3: Germplasm & Genetic Stocks (Sukumar Saha, Shuxun Yu) | |||||||||
| Room 4: Evolutionary & Comparative Genomics (David Stelly, Peng Chee) | |||||||||
| Room 5: Bioinformatics (Brian Scheffler, Jing Yu) | |||||||||
| 12:00 | PM- | 1:00 | PM | Lunch | |||||
| 1:00 | PM- | 2:50 | PM | Special Session: China's "973" Program on Cotton Genomics (Shuxun Yu, Yuxian Zhu) | |||||
| 1:00 | PM - | 1:15 | PM | Shuxun Yu, Cotton Research Institute of CAAS, Anyang, Henan, China | |||||
| "China Project "973" - Molecular improvement on cotton fiber" (S1) | |||||||||
| 1:15 | PM - | 1:30 | PM | Xianlong Zhang, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China | |||||
| "Genetic analysis of cotton fiber traits by molecular markers" (S2) | |||||||||
| 1:30 | PM - | 1:45 | PM | Jingyuang Liu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China | |||||
| "Proteomics study of cotton fiber cells" (S3) | |||||||||
| 1:45 | PM - | 2:00 | PM | Yuxiang Zhu, Peking University, Beijing, China | |||||
| "Transcriptome profiling and analysis during cotton fiber cell development" (S4) | |||||||||
| 2:00 | PM - | 2:15 | PM | Yan Pei, Southwest University, Chongqing, China | |||||
| "GhDET2, a steroid 5alpha-reductase, plays an important role in cotton fiber cell initiation and elongation" (S5) | |||||||||
| 2:15 | PM - | 2:30 | PM | Fuguang Li, Cotton Research Institute of CAAS, Anyang, Henan, China | |||||
| "Identification of key genes in cotton fiber" (S6) | |||||||||
| 2:30 | PM - | 2:45 | PM | TBD | |||||
| 2:50 | PM- | 3:10 | PM | Coffee or Tea | |||||
| 3:10 | PM- | 5:00 | PM | ICGI Business Session (John Yu, Richard Percy) | |||||
| Workgroup chairs' reports; | |||||||||
| Standing items; | |||||||||
| Open floor | |||||||||
| 6:00 | PM- | 9:00 | PM | Closing Ceremony (Banquet and Entertainment) |