This page serves as a store for presentations, photos, and reference documents produced from GCP project-level training courses and workshops.
You are warmly invited to freely use and/or print any of these materials for educational or other non-commercial purposes without prior permission, provided due credit is attributed.
In cases where you cannot find the material you need, we would invite you to contact the course contact person (indicated in brackets next to each course title) directly. In cases where you are experiencing difficulty in downloading material from the web, please contact Gillian Summers.
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Launch of Cowpea CoP--8 May 2011, Madrid, Spain (Contact: Ndeye Ndack Diop; for logistics contact Griselda Marquez). List of participants available here.
2010
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Next generation sequencing (NGS) technology data analysis-- 21–23 July 2009, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, AP, India (Contact: Rajeev Varshney). Related GCP project project: SP4 Commissioned G4009.04: Data analysis support for existing projects in SP2 with emphasis on analysis of Next Generation Sequencing data. More
- Rice Challenge initiative launch workshop--24–26 June 2009, WARDA, Cotonou, Benin (Contact: Marie Noelle Ndjiondjop).
- Molecular Breeding Platform Planning Workshop--5-7 March 2009, CIRAD, Montpellier, France (Contact: Sandra Insignares)
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The Analysis of Molecular Data Generated From Bulked Heterogeneous Populations--1-6 February 2008, CIMMYT Headquarters, Texcoco, Mexico (Contact: Marilyn Warburton)
- Whole Plant Physiology Modelling final worshop--4-7 February 2008, Pioneer, Johnston, Iowa, USA (Contact: Delphine Luquet). Related GCP project project: 2005-07, ‘Whole plant modeling of drought response in cereals', under Subprogramme 1. For more details on this SP1 project, please see page 92 of 2007 Project mid-year and final reports: Competitive and commissioned projects
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Association mapping in inbreeding and out-crossing plant species for genes encoding traits of interest and markers linked to those traits--24 October 2007, Viña del Mar, Chile (Marilyn Warburton)
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Phenotypic and marker-based analysis of multi-environment data: Identifying the genetic basis of GxE and responses to stress--17-20 July 2007, Piracicaba, Brazil (Fred van Eeuwijk)
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Phenotypic and marker-based analysis of multi-environment data: Identifying the genetic basis of GxE and responses to stress. July 12-13 2007, Colonia, Uruguay (Fred van Eeuwijk)
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VII MAS Training/Workshop on 'Application of MAS for Crop Improvement'--20-24 August 2007, Barwale Foundation, Hyderabad, India (Casiana Vera Cruz)
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Low-cost gene-based technologies for MAS application in rice and maize--25-27 April 2007, Barwale Knowledge and Study Center, Jalna, Maharashtra, India (Casiana Vera Cruz)
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Molecular Characterization of Inbred Lines and Populations in Maize -- This meeting, held in New Delhi, India from 1-3 April 2007, was hosted by the Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI), coordinated by Dr. B. M. Prasanna, and sponsored by the Generation Challenge Program as part of the competitive grant project entitled “Characterization of genetic diversity of maize populations: Documenting global maize migration from the center of origin.” Participants learned the use of SSR markers for characterizing crop germplasm, with particular emphasis on heterogeneous populations, particularly maize.
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Population structure, phenotypic information and association studies in long generation crops--16-20 October 2006, Saragoza, Spain (Contact: Fred van Eeuwijk)
- Phenotypic and marker based analysis of multi-environment data: Identifying the genetic basis of GxE and responses to stress -- This workshop--focusing on the analysis of multi-environment data and genotype by environment data--took place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the day before the GCP 2006 ARM.
- Crop modelling training organized by Agropolis--CIRAD--May 2006, EMBRAPA, Sete Lagoas, Brazil) (Delphine Luquet)
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Population Diversity Analysis -- This course was held in Beijing, China, during 5-9 December 2005 as part of the GCP competitive grant titled "Characterization of genetic diversity of maize populations: Documenting global maize migration from the center of origin," led by CIMMYT.
- Fingerprinting via bulks training course-- 3-9 Dec 2005, Beijing, China (Marilyn Warburton)
- Comparative Mapping and Association Genetics -- This course was held in Nairobi, Kenya, during 9-11 November 2005 as part of the GCP competitive grant titled "Development of informative DNA markers through association mapping in maize to improve drought tolerance in cereals," led by CIMMYT.
- Plant Genetic Diversity and Molecular Markers training course. Oct 3 – Dec 11 2005, Santiago, Chile. (Marilyn Warburton)
- Characterization of genetic diversity of maize populations: Documenting global maize migration from the center of origin -- This planning meeting was conducted in Nairobi, Kenya, from 4-6 April 2005 in preparation for the GCP Competitive Project of the same name.
- Potato SSR analysis and database development--25-29 October 2004, CIP, Lima, Peru (Marc Ghislain)
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