21 December  2007

Season’s greetings from the CGIAR Generation Challenge Programme to all GCP News readers, with our best wishes for 2008. We thank you for your continued support and interest in our work in 2007. To wrap up the year, we bring you a detailed update on the Genotyping Support Service workshop, as well as alert you on topical events of interest in the first quarter of next year.

GCP Genotyping Support Services Workshop
24–28 September 2007—Zaragoza, Spain
This hands-on and one-to-one workshop brought together researchers from seven countries, each with their own genotyping data. The primary goal of the workshop, organised by Subprogramme 5 in collaboration with the Instituto Agronómico Mediterráneao de Zaragoza (IAMZ), was to support GCP researchers to optimally analyse and interpret data from the trial phase of GCP’s Genotyping Support Service (GSS). More

GCP events in early 2008

GCP at the XVI Plant and Animal Genome (PAG) Conference
14 January 2008—San Diego, California, USA
As is customary, GCP will participate in the 2008 PAG symposium and have its own event—a one-day workshop on 14 January 2008 with confirmed speakers.

GCP drought phenotyping meeting
28-30 January 2008—Texcoco, Mexico
This meeting at GCP Headquarters precedes the launch of a 2008 project to develop a GCP Drought Phenotyping Network.

End-of-project meeting, GCP Project 2005-07: Whole-plant physiology modelling
4-7 February 2008—Johnston, Iowa, USA
Participation at this end-of-project meeting is by invitation only. The meeting will address model-assisted characterisation of target environments for breeding, model-assisted phenotyping of complex traits (including how to achieve high throughput), model-assisted trait characterisation and integration and ideotype definition.

GCP phenotyping course for drought-related traits across tropical legumes – Concepts and practices
3-28 March 2008 (in two phases) —ICRISAT, Patancheru India
This workshop is specifically for the Tropical Legumes I (TLI) Project therefore TLI researchers and partners will have first priority. However a few slots are also available for non-TLI researchers and partners in this two-phase course which targets technicians and scientists (approximately two weeks for each group) working on phenotyping drought or drought-related traits in legume crops, with a particular focus on Africa.

Travel and accommodation: to be covered by GCP
Registration: early January 2008

We will upload more events as details are firmed so for the latest updates, please revisit our Events page.

 

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