6th 'Applying Genomics to Canola Improvement' Workshop

December 10, 2009, 8:30a.m. - 5:00p.m.

Hilton Garden Inn Hotel, Saskatoon




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Program

Program for the Canola Industry Meeting is also available

8:30a.m. - 2:30p.m. Applying Genomics to Canola Improvement


Chair: Isobel Parkin
8:30a.m. Opening Remarks
Wilf Keller, Genome Prairie
8:40a.m. Brassica research program at INRA
Michel Renard, L'institut national de la recherche agronomique, France
9:20a.m. Improving disease resistance in Brassica: from basic science to applied research
Hossein Borhan, AAFC, Saskatoon
10:00a.m. - 10:30a.m. Break
Chair: Randall Weselake
10:30a.m. The first year of ICON - the world's largest biotechnology consortium in industrial plant oils
Sten Stymne, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
11:10a.m. Genomic approaches in rapeseed breeding
Amine Abbadi, NPZ, Germany
11:50a.m. - 1:00p.m. Lunch
Chair: Adrian Cutler
1:00p.m. Increasing seed oil content by modulating gene expression
Pierre Fobert, NRC-PBI, Saskatoon
1:40p.m. Connecting genes with plant development - canola phenotyping for a better understanding of plant breeding
Dirk Vandenhirtz, Lemnatec, Germany
2:15p.m. Closing Remarks
Gijs van Rooijen, Genome Alberta

3:00p.m. - 5:00p.m. Canadian Brassica Genomics Network

3:00p.m. Introduction
 Faouzi Bekkaoui, PBI-NRC
3:05p.m. Technology Pipeline - a glimpse at technologies in the industry pipeline
 Janice Tranberg, CropLife Canada
3:20p.m. Growing Forward Oilseed Cluster Initiative
Dave Hickling, Canola Council of Canada
3:35p.m. Overview of Brassica Research at AAFC
Paul McCaughey, AAFC
4:00p.m. Brassica genomics initiatives update
 Faouzi Bekkaoui, NRC-PBI
4:30p.m. Summary of Herbicide Tolerance Canola Survey
Stuart Smyth, University of Saskatchewan
4:45p.m. Future Funding Opportunities for Brassica Genomics Research
Reno Pontarollo, Genome Prairie
5:00p.m. Closing Remarks Reno Pontarollo, Genome Prairie