IWGSC Workshop at PAG 2025

IWGSC Workshop at PAG 2025

The IWGSC has led the effort to develop a high quality, reference sequence of the large, complex (hexaploid), bread wheat genome: IWGSC RefSeq v1.0 and annotation v1.1 as well as IWGSC RefSeq v2.1 and accompanying annotation. The IWGSC began a new wheat diversity project to bring to platinum quality the reference sequence and 12 landraces that reflect the breadth of wheat diversity. In the IWGSC workshop this year, there will be a key presentation on the genomics of the AE Watkins wheat landrace collection, several talks on advances in functional genomics, as well as a presentation on a snRNA-SEQ atlas. As usual, the workshop also includes the presentation of the IWGSC-Feuillet Early Career Award, Delfi Dorussen,on whether transcriptional compensation facilitates functional redundancy in wheat. This award is given to a young scientist nominated by anyone in the wheat community and selected by the IWGSC leadership in recognition of outstanding achievement.

Date: Saturday 11 January
Organizers: Rudi Appels and Kellye Eversole
Room: Town and Country A

Program

8:00 am: Welcoming remarks

8:05 am: Delfi Dorussen, John Innes Centre. Does Transcriptional Compensation Facilitate Functional Redundancy in Wheat?

8:25 am: Gurminder Singh, North Dakota State University. Genomic and Functional Characterization of an Exo70-like Gene Governing Susceptibility to Tan Spot in Wheat. Abstract

8:45 am: Veronica Guwela, University of Nottingham. Introgressions from Amblyopyrum Muticum and Triticum Urartu Increases Grain Zinc  and Iron Concentrations in Hexaploid Wheat Backgrounds

9:05 am: Laura Mathieu, INRAE. Plant-Plant Interactions Modulate Wheat Severity to Septoria Tritici Blotch in Some Specific Mixtures through Intergenomic Epistatic Interactions and Transcriptomic-Metabolomic Changes

9:25 am: Sarah Raffan, Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Developing a snRNA-Seq Atlas for Suberin Accumulation in Wheat Root Systems 

9:45 am: Simon Griffiths, John Innes Centre. Genomics of the AE Watkins Wheat Landrace Collection