Overview (click on the date to see session topics for each day)
Monday May 28
4-6 pm: Registration JMCC Foyer
7 –9 pm: Welcome Reception JMCC Centro
| Tuesday May 29 | Wednesday May 30 | Thursday May 31 | Friday June 1 | ||||||
| 7:30 am | Breakfast JMCC Cafe | 7:30 am | Breakfast JMCC Cafe | 7:30 am | Breakfast JMCC Cafe | ||||
| Structural Genomics Session | Germplasm and Genetic Stocks | Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics | Chartered Bus Tour | ||||||
| 8:00 am | Jeff Chen (Plenary) | 8:00 am | Josh Udall (Plenary) | 8:00 am | Jonathan Wendel (Plenary) | 8:00 am | Load buses | ||
| 8:30 am | Tianzhen Zhang (Plenary) | 8:30 am | Todd Campbell (Plenary) | 8:30 am | Dorrie Main (Plenary) | James Hutton Institute | |||
| 9:00 am | TBA | 9:00 am | TBA | 9:00 am | TBA | Edradour Distillery | |||
| 9:15 am | TBA | 9:15 am | TBA | 9:15 am | TBA | Blair Castle (lunch) | |||
| 9:30 am | TBA | 9:30 am | TBA | 9:30 am | TBA | Leault Sheep Farm | |||
| 9:45 am | coffee & tea | 9:45 am | coffee & tea | 9:45 am | coffee & tea | 8:00 pm | Arrive in Edinburgh | ||
| 10:15 am | Lightning Talks (14) | 10:15 am | Lightning Talks (11) | 10:15 am | Lightning Talks (13) | ||||
| 11:25 am | Posters | 11:05 am | Posters | 11:20 am | Posters | ||||
| 12:00 pm | Lunch JMCC Cafe | 12:00 pm | Lunch JMCC Cafe | 12:00 am | Business Meeting | ||||
| Applied Genomics and Breeding | Functional Genomics | 12:30 pm | Lunch JMCC Cafe | ||||||
| 1:00 pm | John Hickey (Plenary) | 1:00 pm | Shuangxia Jin (Plenary) | Afternoon on your own to explore Edinburgh | |||||
| 1:30 pm | Peng Chee (Plenary) | 1:30 pm | Yuxian Zhu (Plenary) | ||||||
| 2:00 pm | TBA | 2:00 pm | TBA | ||||||
| 2:15 pm | TBA | 2:15 pm | TBA | ||||||
| 2:30 pm | TBA | 2:30 pm | TBA | ||||||
| 2:45 pm | coffee & tea | 2:45 pm | coffee & tea | ||||||
| 3:15 pm | Lightning Talks (13) | 3:15 pm | Lightning Talks (14) | ||||||
| 4:20 pm | Posters | 4:25 pm | Posters | ||||||
| 6:30 pm | Group Dinner at the Caves, 12 NiddryStreet South |
Dinner on your own | |||||||
| 4 –6 pm | Registration JMCC Foyer |
| 7 –9 pm | Welcome Reception JMCC Centro |
| 7:30 am | Breakfast JMCC Cafe | |
| Structural Genomics | ||
| 8:00 am | Jeff Chen (Plenary) | Sequencing and comparative analyses of polyploid cotton genomes |
| 8:30 am | Tianzhen Zhang (Plenary) | Reference genome sequences of two cultivated allotetraploid cottons |
| 9:00 am | TBA | |
| 9:15 am | TBA | |
| 9:30 am | TBA | |
| 9:45 am | coffee & tea | |
| 10:15 am | Lightning Talks (14) | |
| 11:25 am | Posters | |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch JMCC Cafe | |
| Applied Genomics and Breeding | ||
| 1:00 pm | John Hickey (Plenary) | Technology is driving the re-integration of plant and animal breeding to their mutual benefit |
| 1:30 pm | Peng Chee (Plenary) | Transcriptome Analysis of Upland Cotton Roots at Two Critical stages of Meloidogyne incognita infection and development |
| 2:00 pm | TBA | |
| 2:15 pm | TBA | |
| 2:30 pm | TBA | |
| 2:45 pm | coffee & tea | |
| 3:15 pm | Lightning Talks (13) | |
| 4:20 pm | Posters | |
| 6:30 pm | Group Dinner at the Caves 12 NiddryStreet South | |
| 7:30 am | Breakfast JMCC Cafe | |
| Germplasm and Genetic Stocks | ||
| 8:00 am | Josh Udall (Plenary) | The origin, diversity, and domestication of tetraploid cotton (G. hirsutum L. and G. barbadense L.) |
| 8:30 am | Todd Campbell (Plenary) | Prospects for using primitive landrace germplasm for cotton improvement |
| 9:00 am | TBA | |
| 9:15 am | TBA | |
| 9:30 am | TBA | |
| 9:45 am | coffee & tea | |
| 10:15 am | Lightning Talks (11) | |
| 11:05 am | Posters | |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch JMCC Cafe | |
| Functional Genomics | ||
| 1:00 pm | Shuangxia Jin (Plenary) | Recent progress and futre prospect of cotton genome editing |
| 1:30 pm | Yuxian Zhu (Plenary) | Upgraded genome assembly reveals the key importance of TEs, in-dels, SNPs and point mutations during the evolution of spinnable cotton fibres |
| 2:00 pm | TBA | |
| 2:15 pm | TBA | |
| 2:30 pm | TBA | |
| 2:45 pm | coffee & tea | |
| 3:15 pm | Lightning Talks (14) | |
| 4:25 pm | Posters | |
| Dinner on your own | ||
| Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics | ||
| 8:00 am | Jonathan Wendel (Plenary) | Biodiversity and the evolution of the cotton genome |
| 8:30 am | Dorrie Main (Plenary) | CottonGen: A Database Resource for Genomics, Genetics and Breeding Research |
| 9:00 am | TBA | |
| 9:15 am | TBA | |
| 9:30 am | TBA | |
| 9:45 am | coffee & tea | |
| 10:15 am | Lightning Talks (13) | |
| 11:20 am | Posters | |
| 12:00 am | Business Meeting | |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch JMCC Cafe | |
| Afternoon on your own to explore Edinburgh | ||
| 7:30 am | Breakfast JMCC Cafe |
| Chartered Bus Tour | |
| 8:00 am | Load buses |
| James Hutton Institute | |
| EdradourDistillery | |
| Blaire Castle (lunch) | |
| LeaultSheep Farm | |
| 8:00 pm | Arrive in Edinburgh |