Program

 

XXII International Symposium in Genetics and Plant Breeding

Schedule:


 

Wednesday – November 21st

17h30min – Registration

19h00min – Opening Ceremony

20h00min – Dr. César Augusto Brasil Pereira Pinto – Universidade Federal de Lavras – “Polyploid crops – origin, genetic behavior and importance to the Brazilian agriculture”

21h00min – Reception/Cocktail

Thursday – November 22nd

08h00min – Dr. Antonio Augusto Franco Garcia – ESALQ/USP – “Genotyping and building genetic maps in polyploids”

09h15min – Oral Presentation: “Molecular drive in Arabidopsis thaliana centromeric satellite DNA and its implication for genome assembly and evolution” – Gabriel Fernando Silva – ESALQ/USP

09h30min –  Coffee Break

10h30min – Poster session

10h30min – Dr. Lyderson Facio Viccini – Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora -“Polyploidy: a key process in plant genome evolution”

11h45min – Lunch

14h00min  – Dr. Norma Manrique-Carpintero – Michigan State University, East Lansing – “Genetics of agronomic and disease resistance traits in tetraploid potato”

15h15min – Coffee Break

15h45min – Oral Presentation: Eliminação de cromossomos em híbridos poliploides intraespecíficos de Brachiaria humidicola” –  Gabriel Luiz de Melo Sales – Universidade Estadual de Maringá

16h00min – Dr. Esteban Rios – University of Florida, Gainesville – “Genetics of Polyploids and Its Key Role in Forage Breeding”

Friday – November 23rd

08h00min –  Dr. Candida Cabral – Corteva Agriscience, Johnston – “Hybrid wheat breeding”

09h15min – Oral Presentation: “Seed aging and chromosome behavior in Zea mays L” – Renata Flávia de Carvalho – ESALQ/USP

09h30min – Coffee Break

10h00min – Poster session

10h30min – Dr. Magdalena Vaio – Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo – “Genome and epigenome consequences of polyploidy”

11h30min – Lunch

14h00min – Oral Presentation: “Certificação do número cromossômico e estimativa da quantidade de dna de híbridos interespecíficos de Urochloa P. Beauv” – Mara Jane da Rocha – Universidade Federal de Lavras

14h15min – Dr. P. Stephen Baenziger– University of Nebraska, Lincoln – “Genomics and Breeding Hexaploid Wheat: It is not complicated as you think”

15h30min – Closure