BREAD Workshop

Organizers:
Jane Silverthorne(National Science Foundation) and Katherine Kahn(Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation )
Date: Sunday, January 15, 2012
Time: 1:30 PM-3:40 PM
Room: Pacific Salon 3
Chairs:
Jane Silverthorne and Katherine Kahn
1:30 PM
Introduction and Workshop Overview
Jane Silverthorne, National Science Foundation; Katherine Kahn, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

1:35 PM
BREAD: Functional Analysis of DNA Satellites Associated with Cassava Mosaic Disease
Joseph Ndunguru, MIKOCHENI AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE; Linda Hanley-Bowdoin, North Carolina State University; Peter Sseruwagi, NATIONAL CROPS RESOURCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE

1:50 PM
BREAD: Hybrid Technologies for Heterosis in Rice and Related Cereals
Stephen Dellaporta, Yale University ; Joe Tohme, CIAT

2:05 PM
BREAD: Toward Development of a Vaccine for Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia
Sanjay Vashee, J. Craig Venter Institute; Anne Liljander, ILRI

2:50 PM
Grand Challenge Explorations
Christina Owen, BMGF

3:20 PM
Funding Opportunities Through the Plant Genome Research Program
Diane Jofuku Okamuro, National Science Foundation

3:30 PM
Closing Remarks
Jane Silverthorne, National Science Foundation; Katherine Kahn, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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