PROGRAM

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Monday, April 16

11:00-17:00 Pre –Conference Business Meetings

11:00-12:30 International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium

business meeting

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00 ITMI Business Meeting

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-17:00 International Barley Genome Sequencing Consortium

business meeting

17:00-18:00 Welcome, get together, registration, poster hanging

18:00-19:40 Session A: Opening Session

Chair: Tzion Fahima

18:00 Opening Welcome

18:10 Mr. Zohar Oved, Tiberias Mayor, Greetings

18:20 A1 Shaul Katz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

On the wings of the brittle rachis: Aaron Aaronsohn from the

rediscovery of wild wheat (“urweizen”) to his vision “for the

progress of mankind”

19:00 A2 Moshe Feldman, Weizmann Institute, Israel

Facts and thoughts on the origin and evolution of wild

emmer wheat

19:40 End of Session

19:40- 21:00 Dinner

21:00- 22:00 Poster Viewing (odd numbers)

Tuesday, April 17

08:00 Bus departure to Beit Gavriel

08:30-10:20 Session B: Cereal Structural Genomics

Chair: Calvin Qualset

08:30 B1 Bikram Gill, Kansas State University

Genetics and genomics of wheat domestication-driven

evolution

09:00 B2 Beat Keller, University of Zurich

Evolutionary genomics in wheat and grass species with

small genomes

09:30 B3 Boulos Chalhoub, URGV-INRA, France

Relationships between wheat species, based on comparative large-scale genomic sequencing and

functional regulation

10:00 B4 Geoffrey Fincher, University of Adelaide, Australia

The (1,3;1,4)-beta-glucan synthase gene family in barley

10:20 End of Session

10:20-10:40 Coffee Break

10:40-12:40 Session C: Mapping and Sequencing in the Triticeae

Chair: Enrico Porceddu

10:40 C1 Catherine Feuillet, INRA, France

Chromosome based strategies to decipher the structure and evolution of the hexaploid wheat genome: chromosome 3B, a case study

11:10 C2 Andreas Graner, Leibniz-Inst. of Plant Genetics, Germany

The International Barley Sequencing Consortium - a global

effort towards one goal

11:40 C3 Abraham Korol, University of Haifa, Israel

A new approach for building physical maps in large and

repetitive genomes

12:10 C4 Robbie Waugh, Scottish Crop Research Institute, UK

Genetics of transcript abundance variation in a barley

reference mapping population

12:40 End of Session

12:40-14:00 Lunch at Beit Gavriel

14:00-16:00 Session D: Functional Genomics

Chair: Adina Breiman

14:00 D1 Masahiro Yano, National Inst. of Agrobiological Sci., Japan

Detection and molecular cloning of genes underlying

quantitative phenotypic variations in rice

14:30 D2 Jorge Dubcovsky, University of California, USA

Interactions between photoperiod and vernalization in wheat

and barley

15:00 D3 Yasunari Ogihara, Yokohama City University, Japan

Comprehensive analysis of expressed sequence tags in

common wheat

15:20 D4 Assaf Distelfeld, University of California Davis, USA

Map-based cloning of Gpc-B1 reveals a transcription factor

associated with senescence & mineral remobilization in wheat

15:40 D5 Khalil Kashkush, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

Genome-wide analysis of cytosine methylation and

transcription of retrotransposons in rice

16:00 End of session

16:00-16:20 Coffee break

16:20-18:00 Session E: Domestication:

Genetic and Archaeological Insights

Chair: Simcha Lev-Yadun

16:20 E1 Jan Dvorak, University of California Davis, USA

Domestication & evolution of tetraploid & hexaploid wheats

16:50 E2 Avi Gopher, Tel Aviv University, Israel

The Neolithic Revolution in the Levant

17:20 E3 Mordechai Kislev, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Reconstructing the ear morphology of ancient small-grain

wheat (T. turgidum ssp. parvicoccum) and macaroni wheat

17:40 E4 Shahal Abbo, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Comparative study of Near Eastern cereals & legume crops

18:00 End of Session -- Bus departure to Gai Beach Hotel

19:00-20:30 Dinner

20:30-21:30 Poster Viewing (even numbers)

Wednesday, April 18

08:30-09:40 Session F: In Situ and Ex Situ Conservation of Wheat

and Barley

Chair: Rivka Hadas

08:30 F1 Didi Kaplan, Nature and Parks Authority, Israel

A designated nature reserve for in-situ conservation of wild

emmer wheat (Triticum dicoccoides) in northern Israel

09:00 F2 Yehoshua Anikster, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Hidden resistance and latent susceptibility to fungal

diseases in a natural wild emmer population in Ammiad

09:20 F3 Zvi Peleg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Genetic diversity in wild emmer wheat across natural aridity

gradient and priorities for conservation

09:40 End of session

09:40-10:00 Coffee break

10:00-19:00 Field trip 1: In the footsteps of wild cereals & visit of

archaeological sites

10:00 Departure from Gai Beach Hotel

10:30 Kfar Nahum (Capharnaum) -Ancient Jewish and Christian

village (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capharnaum)

12:00 Ammiad Nature Reserve - In-situ conservation of wild

emmer wheat in the center of distribution of wild wheat in

Israel, in the sub-Mediterranean region

13:30 Lunch

16:00 Yehudia – Natural populations of wild emmer wheat, oat and

barley in an open oak park forest.

17:00 Har Shipon (Rye Mountain) - The Southern distribution of the

wild perennial rye, Secale montanum, the progenitor of

domesticated rye.

19:00 Return to Gai Beach Hotel

19:00-20:30 Dinner

Thursday, April 19

08:30-10:20 Session G: Genome Evolution in Grasses

Chair: Rudy Appels

08:30 G1 Alan Schulman, MTT & University of Helsinki, Finland

Junkyard wars: retrotransposons, hyper-parasitism, and

genome evolution in the Triticeae

09:00 G2 Eduard D. Akhunov, University of California Davis, USA

Mechanisms and rates of acireductone deoxygenase gene

family evolution provide insights into the evolution of large

plant genomes

09:20 G3 Alexander Belyayev, University of Haifa, Israel

The dynamics of transposable elements in time: impact on

marginal populations of Aegilops speltoides

09:40 G4 Taihachi Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan

Phylogenetic relationships among diploid Aegilops-Triticum

species based on sequence data of chloroplast DNA

10:00 G5 Elena A. Salina, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Russia

Genome reorganization during evolution of diploid &

polyploid species of Triticum and Aegilops studied by

micro- and macrosatellites

10:20 End of session

10:20-10:40 Coffee break

10:40-12:50 Session H: Biotic and Abiotic Stress

Chair: Pierre Sourdille

10:40 H1 Peter Langridge, Australian Centre for Plant Functional

Genomics, Australia

Strategies for improving abiotic stress tolerance

11:10 H2 Yehoshua Saranga, The Hebrew University, Israel

Drought resistance in wild emmer wheat – genetics,

physiology and ecology

11:30 H3 Evans S. Lagudah, CSIRO, Australia

Molecular genetic characterisation of the multi-pathogenic

adult plant disease resistance locus, Lr46/Yr29/Ltn2, in wheat

11:50 H4 Hikmet Budak, Sabanci University, Turkey

Identification and quantification of differentially expressed

genes induced by Cd exposure in durum wheat

12:10 H5 Roberto Tuberosa, University of Bologna, Italy

Genomics approaches to enhance water-use efficiency and

tolerance to drought in Mediterranean crops

12:30 H6 Ismail Cakmak, Sabanci University, Turkey

Role of wild wheats in improving zinc deficiency tolerance

and increasing grain zinc concentration of cultivated wheat

12:50 End of session

12:50-14:10 Lunch

14:10-15:40 Session I: Biodiversity: Characterization & Utilization

Chair: Sergei Volis

14:10 I1 Dani Zamir, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Improving plant breeding using exotic genetic libraries

14:40 I2 Susanne Dreisigacker, CIMMYT, Mexico

Genome-wide linkage disequilibrium and association

mapping using CIMMYT wheat trials

15:00 I3 Francois Balfourier, INRA, France

Establishment and evaluation of a world wide bread wheat

core collection with molecular markers and agronomic traits

15:20 I4 Karl Schmid, Leibniz-Institute of Plant Genetics, Germany

Population genetic analysis of DNA sequence polymorphism

in wild barley Hordeum spontaneum accessions from the

Evolution Canyon and other localities in Israel

15:40 End of session

15:40-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:20 Session J: Gene Transfer from Wild Relatives to Crops

Chair: Jacques David

16:00 J1 Carla Ceoloni, University of Tuscia, Italy

Fine wheat-alien chromosome manipulations: engineered

durum wheats with single and multiple introgressions

enhancing the crop value

16:20 J2 Eitan Millet, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Obstacles and advancement in gene transfer from Sharon

goat grass into wheat

16:40 J3 Alberto Cenci, INRA, France

Interspecific genetic fluxes in the evolution of Triticeae

17:00 J4 Hermann Buerstmayr, University of Natural Resources &

Applied Life Sciences, Austria

Molecular mapping of resistance to Fusarium head blight in

a back-cross derived population T.dicccoides x T.durum

17:20 End of session

17:20-17:30 Stretching break

17:30-18:40 Session K: Closing Session

Chair: Avraham Levy

17:30 K1 Eviatar Nevo, University of Haifa, Israel

Ecological genomics of wild cereals in their center of origin

and diversity in the Fertile Crescent

18:00 K2 Ran Aaronsohn, The Hebrew University, Israel

In the footsteps of Aaron Aaronsohn: local sites, Levantine

landscape and early globalization

18:30 Concluding comments

18:40 End of session

19:30-21:00 Gala Dinner

21:00-22:00 Happy Hour

Friday, April 20

Until 08:00 Checkout

08:30 Field trip 2

08:30 Departure from Gai Beach Hotel

10:00 Evolution Canyon - Mount Carmel, natural population of

Hordeum spontaneum

11:30 Aaronsohn House and Museum, Zichron Yaakov

13:00 Lunch

13:30-15:00 Visit of Ramat Hanadiv Gardens: Aegilops speltoides

natural population, demonstration plots of wild and

cultivated cereals, visit of the gardens

17:00 Tel Aviv drop

18:00 Ben Gurion Airport drop