International PAG: Banana (Musa) Genomics Consortium Workshop Banana/Musa Genome Workshop

Saturday Morning, 14 January 2006 --- 8:00 am - 10:10 am

Banana Genomics Consortium Workshop - Sunrise Room

Organizer: Nicolas Roux, INIBAP - Montpellier

(n.roux@cgiar.org)

Speakers:

1. 8:00 AM
Nicolas Roux
(n.roux@cgiar.org)
Commodities for Livelihoods Programme, International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain (INIBAP), Montpellier, France
The Global Musa Genomics Consortium

2. 8:15 AM
George Ude
(gude@bowiestate.edu)
Department of Natural Science, Bowie State University, Bowie, Maryland, U.S.A.
Subspecies Specific Markers for Identifying A and B Genomes in the Natural Edible Musa Hybrids

3. 8:35 AM
Kornel Burg
(kornel.burg@arcs.ac.at)
Austrian Research Center, Seibersdorf, Austria
Geographic Origin and Hybrid Haplotype of Musa Revealed by High Resolution Genotyping of the Cytoplasmic Genomes

4. 8:50 AM
Angelique D'Hont
(Dhont@cirad.fr)
Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Development (CIRAD), Montpellier, France
Characterization of Translocations in Banana by FISH of BAC clones Anchored to a Genetic Map

5. 9:10 AM
Manoela Miranda
(m.miranda@iaea.org)
Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, Joint FAO/IAEA Division, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria
Mutation Induction and Genomics for the Improvement of Musa Germplasm

6. 9:30
Andrew James
(andyj007@cicy.mx)
Centro de Investigacion Cientifica de Yucatan (CICY), Merida, Mexico
Discovery and Characterization of Disease Resistance Gene Homologues in a Plant Transformation Competent BIBAC Library of the Banana Musa acuminata Cv. 'Tuu Gia' (AA)

7. 9:50 AM
Georgios Pappas
(gpappas@ucb.br)
Universidade Catolica de Brasilia (UCB), Brasilia, Brazil
Analysis of Resistance Gene Analogs in Musa acuminata Subsp. burmannicoides, Var. 'Calcutta 4'


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