3rd Applying Genomics to Canola Improvement Workshop
3rd Applying Genomics to Canola Improvement Workshop
November 30th, 2006, 8:30am - 4:00pm
Sheraton Hotel, Saskatoon, Canada
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Final Program
- Jerome Konecsni, Genome Prairie, Welcome remarks
- Wilf Keller, NRC, Introductory comments
- Richard Flavell, Ceres Inc., Future Impacts of Genomics on Crop Development
- Isobel Parkin, AAFC, Brassica genomics international initiatives
- Greg Gocal, Cibus LLC, Cibus' Rapid Trait Development System (RTDS) for Developing Non-Transgenic Trait
- Raju Datla & Gopalan Selvaraj, NRC, Global analysis of Canola seed development
- Dick Vreugdenhil, Wageningen University, Combining metabolomics (and other -omics) with genetics
- Linda Castle, Pioneer Hi-Bred, Gene Shuffling to Develop OptimumGAT Herbicide Tolerant Crops
- David Dennis, Performance Plants, Gene discovery and modification for the improvement of canola and other crops
- Gijs van Rooijen, Genome Alberta, Concluding remarks
Workshop organizers:
- Keith Downey (downeyk@agr.gc.ca)
- Wilf Keller (Wilf.Keller@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)
- Gernard Rakow (rakowg@agr.gc.ca)
- Faouzi Bekkaoui (Faouzi.Bekkaoui@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)
- The Saskatchewan Canola Development Commission
- NRC-Genomics and Health Initiative
- Ag-West Bio Inc.
- Bayer
- Dow AgroSciences
- Genome Alberta
- Dupont
- Performance Plants
- Genome Prairie
- The National Research Council of Canada
- Agriculture and Agri-Food
- Agriculture Canada