This first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary meeting will be held on November 2-3, 2016 at the Minneapolis Marriott Airport Hotel in Bloomington, Minnesota (U.S.A.). The meeting will bring together wheat breeders, plant pathologists, entomologists, and plant scientists (genetics, genomics, and molecular biology) to discuss how to achieve durable and effective resistance to wheat diseases and pests. The meeting is being supported by a conference grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). Attendance will be limited to 120 attendees.
- Keynote Speaker: Brian Staskawicz (University of California Berkeley, U.S.A.)
“Genome Editing Approaches for Constructing Durable Disease Resistance” - Keynote Speaker: Jonathan Jones (Sainsbury Lab UK)
“Expanding and Accelerating Recruitment and Deployment of Resistance Gene Diversity from Crop Relatives” - Keynote Speaker: Stephen Baenziger (University of Nebraska, U.S.A.)
“Reflections on 40 Years of Breeding for Disease Resistance”
View details on the event website.