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Sunday, June 17, 2012 – 8 AM to 5 PM
8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
This workshop is by invitation only.
Chaired by :
Graham Thiele (G.THIELE@CGIAR.ORG)
1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
This workshop is by invitation only.
Chaired by :
Paul Ilona (P.Ilona@CGIAR.ORG)
1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
This workshop is by invitation only.
Chaired by :
Eric Kueneman (eakueneman@gmail.com)
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 – 7 PM to 10 PM
7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
This workshop is open to all meeting attendees.
Chaired by:
Lava Kumar (L.Kumar@cgiar.org)
Titus Alicai (talicai@hotmail.com)
Please contact the chairs for more information.
The workshop will begin with several overview presentations covering the latest knowledge, followed by an hour of discussion on future strategies.
Draft Outline:
1. State of knowledge:
- Virus diversity, vector transmission, diagnostics and epidemiology (15 min)
- Control (30 min)
- Resistance in germplasm
- Conventional and marker-assisted breeding
- Transgenic resistance
- Mechanisms of resistance
2. Planning for future (working groups): 30 min
Disease epidemiology and surveillance (virus diversity, diagnostics)
Phytosanitation and seed systems group
Policy, national capacities, awareness creation, etc. (optional group)
3. Priority setting and recommendations
- Presentations from each group, indicating top research priorities – 5 min each;
- discussion and final recommendations
7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
This session is open to all meeting attendees.
Chaired by:
Scott Shore (scott@shorebiotech.com)
A brief overview of regulatory requirements for transgenic crops will be presented. The objective of the discussion would be build a framework and understanding for cassava regulatory requirements to enable efficient integration of regulatory considerations with product development. Opportunities for unique approaches to achieve timely approvals will also be explored.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 – 7 PM to 10 PM
8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
This session is open to all meeting attendees.
Chaired by:
Clair Hershey (c.hershey@cgiar.org)
Peter Kulakow (p.kulakow@cgiar.org)
Please contact the chairs for more information.
Cassava, growing in more than 105 countries and feeding an estimated 700 million people, faces major challenges to meet a growing world population and global climate change. The role of the Global Cassava Partnership for the 21st Century is precisely to plan for the scientific and technological investments needed to address these challenges.
Cassava is a very important member of the roots, tubers and bananas (including plantains) group which are a critical component of the global food system. As vegetatively propagated crops they have many similarities for genetic conservation, breeding strategies, seed systems and post-harvest technology. A CGIAR Research Program for Roots, Tubers and Bananas (CRP-RTB) has recently been created to exploit these similarities. The Program strategy is to enhance food security and livelihoods through increased yields and stronger, more diversified cropping systems realized through the synergies of cooperative research among scientists working on RTBs. The CRP-RTB aims to increase incomes and foster gender equity. The program is conducting a priority setting exercise for the RTB crops to identify the best bets for future investment in the research agenda. Engaging partners and stakeholders will be critical for setting priorities, successful implementation and achieving impact.
The GCP21 welcomes this opportunity to work with the CRP-RTB in setting priorities for cassava. There will be several short presentations followed by a discussion where we look forward to participants’ feedback.
1. Best prospects for cassava improvement: GCP 21: Joe Tohme and Claude Fauquet (15mn)
1- Setting priorities for cassava research: CRP-RTB on Roots, Tubers, and Bananas: Graham Thiele (15: mn)
3- A strategy for defining research priorities: Joseph Rusike (15mn)
4- TBA: Glenn Hyman and Bernardo Creamer (15mn)
5- Gender lens for priority setting: Holger Kirscht (15mn)
6- Discussion (45mn)
Expected outputs of the special session: shared knowledge of methods for priority setting, feedback from stakeholders on a) key constraints, b) best bet research options and c) gender linked considerations and opportunities"
8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
This session is on invitation only
Chaired by:
Mpoko Bokanga (M.Bokanga@unido.org)
Please contact the chairs for more information.
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Thursday, June 21, 2012 – 7 PM to 10 PM
7 PM to 10 PM
This session is open to all meeting attendees.
Chaired by: Linley Chiwona Karltun (Linley.Chiwona.Karltun@slu.se)
Dai Peters (Dai.Peters@crs.org)
This workshop will be devoted to discussions on the mechanism of establishing a sustainable cassava seed system in response to disaster and in times of diseases. We will explore the feasibility of formal and informal seed certification in times of diseases and uncertainties of the viability of varieties against the diseases. We will also debate on the premise on which to predicate sustainability, and to discuss the following questions:
- Can cassava seed system be sustained on a commercial model, or it can only be public goods and must be sustained by public funds?
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Under what circumstances can it be sustained on a commercial model, and how the seed system can be structured to be commercially sustainable?
- How can a formal or informal seed certification system be structured to support the commercial model?
- What is the role of accessing cassava markets (industrial or food) in helping support the commercial model of the seed system?"
7 PM to 10 PM
This session is open to all meeting attendees.
Chaired by:
Herve Vanderschuren (hvanderschuren@ehtz.ch)
Paul Chavarriaga (p.chavarriaga@cgiar.org)
The objective of the workshop is to brainstorm around cassava genetic
modification, its advances, needs and bottlenecks.
The following are topics of interest, although please feel free to
suggest your own during the first days of GCP to Herve Vanderschuren
and/or Paul Chavarriaga:
1) Establishing robust transformation systems to expand them to
farmer-preferred cultivars in tropical countries,
2) Building North-South-CGIAR genuine cooperation for attracting funding,
as well as for technology transfer and deployment,
3) Bringing together conventional breeding and transgenics to establish
breeding lines and doing proper field testing,
4) Exploring new technologies for genetic modification, i.e., gene
stacking, new markers, and gene silencing/editing among others,
Overall, the session aims at developing a better, coordinated cassava
biotechnology community, with a higher level of cooperation, to deploy
transgenic cassava in countries where it is urgently needed.
This session is open to all meeting attendees.
Chaired by: Morag Ferguson (M.Ferguson@CGIAR.ORG)
Since GCP-I a draft of the cassava genome sequence has been released, and next-generation sequencing has emerged as a powerful tool, promising vast amounts of data. It is timely that the cassava community gets organized to manage this data so it can be more effectively used. The cassava community would like to take the opportunity of GCP-II to discuss options in database organization and integration. A workshop has been organized on Thursday from 7 to 10pm.
We anticipate the following during that session:
Progress in cassava database development (Graham McLaren, Generation Challenge Program)(10min)
Pedigree and phenotyping database (Peter Kulakow (IITA) or Hernan Ceballos (CIAT)(10 min))
Solanaceae database and Cassavabase (Lukas Mueller, Cornell University)(10min)
Phytozome (Simon Prochnik, JGI) (10min)
What do users require? What features are important to an integrated cassava database? Genebank and breeders germplasm? DNA barcode for germaplasm ID? Molecular markers? Gene expression data? Sequence data? What are the priorities? What platforms/databases are currently available? (20 min)
Could different modules be developed simultaneously? How could these be integrated? (20 min)
Curation of databases? How should this be sustained? (20 min)
Population of databases. What lessons can we learn from other crops? Would the cassava community be willing to populate databases? (20min)
Define the next steps to be taken towards implementation of database development and integration in cassava (1hr)"
Friday, June 22, 2012 – 8 AM to 10 AM
This session is open to the meeting attendees.
Chaired by:
Morag Ferguson (M.Ferguson@CGIAR.ORG)
Claude Fauquet (iltab@danforthcenter.org)
Identification of Landrace genotypes.
A number of cassava landraces are cultivated by farmers all over Africa and some of them in very large surfaces.
When cassava improvement is targeting cassava landraces, or when cassava landraces contain interesting properties to be used by molecular breeders, the problem of the proper identification of the chosen landrace is challenging.
A number of cassava scientists are facing this challenge and would like to share their concerns and experience with the community.
We have decided to organize a special workshop on this session during the GCP21-II Conference and it will occur on Friday June 22, from 8 to 10 am.
We anticipate the following during that session
- Presentation of the case of Namikonga by Morag Ferguson (10mn)
- Presentation of the case of Ebwanateraka by Claude Fauquet (10mn)
- Presentation of road map for the identification of cassava landraces by Claude Fauquet (5mn)
- Presentation of a DNA bar code system for cassava landraces by Morag Ferguson (5mn)
- Open discussion on the topic (90mn)
- The goals of this workshop would be:
- share concerns and ideas in the community
- establish a common accepted road map to identify landraces
- convince national and international organizations to incorporate identified landraces in their collection
- extend the DNA barcoding system to all cassava cultivars
- provide in writings a clear and proper information regarding the Identification of Landrace genotypes to the community and to donors
This session is open to all meeting attendees.
The Cassava: Adding Value for Africa(C:AVA) project is a five year project that started in 2008 to develop value chains mainly for High Quality Cassava Flour. The project, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is operational in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Malawi and Uganda. With a focus on small-holder farmers, C:AVA is developing a vibrant and competitive high quality cassava flour industry based on market-led efficient production and processing which leads to a reduction in rural poverty.
C:AVA has focused on a range of market opportunities for high quality cassava flour ranging from partial wheat-flour substitution in the food and bakery sector to its use as a glue extender in the paperboard and plywood sector. Key to success has been interventions at different parts of the value chain to overcome key constraints. The project has focused on interventions at three parts of the value chain:
- Ensuring a consistent supply of raw material
- Ensuring financially viable intermediaries able to link village level production with commercial end users.
- Supporting end users to adopt high quality cassava flour
During the workshop the achievements and lessons learned during the implementation of the C:AVA project will be presented to provide a basis for a discussion about the challenges and opportunities associated with value addition to cassava and in linking small-holder farmers to markets.
Chaired by: Andrew Westby (A.Westby@greenwich.ac.uk)
William Otim Nape (wonape@gmail.com )
Exploring the Cassava Genome at Phytozome (www.phytozome.net)
Room: Emerald
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This session is open to all meeting attendees.
Chaired by:
Simon Prochnik (seprochnik@lbl.gov)
Come learn how to make the most of cassava genomic data. This hands on workshop will teach you everything you need to know about Phytozome, the web portal for genomic data from cassava and other plants. Phytozome is available at www.phytozome.net and acts both as a data hub for cassava genomic data fully integrated with a suite of tools for browsing and/or searching the genome, gene models, expression data, and web pages for genes and their predicted functions from Pfam, Panther, KEGG, KOG as well as protein family assignments. Bring your laptop so you can try things out as you learn them. This tutorial will cover how users can start with any sequence or text and search for genes, gene families, predicted function and browse gene models in their genomic context. We will also cover the built-in JalView tool for making multiple sequence alignments, and BioMart for downloading large datasets that you can analyze fully offline. Space is limited, first come first served.
Saturday, June 23, 2012 – 8 AM to 5 PM
Double Haploid Satellite meeting
Room Amethyst
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Saturday and Sunday, June 23-24, 2012 – 8 to 5 PM
IBP Satellite Satellite Meeting
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This session is on registration only.
Chaired by:
Graham McLaren (g.mclaren@cgiar.org)
Ndeye Ndack Diop (nn.diop@cgiar.org)
Training workshop on Integrated Breeding Platform Data Management Tools. Sat 23rd and Sun 24th June
This training workshop is aimed at introducing Cassava Breeders to the Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP) concept and tools. We will concentrate on outlining standards and approaches to data management for integrated breeding, how to access tools and services of the IBP and how to use the data management tools for breeding logistics, nursery management and trial design and implementation.
Users are required to have a lap-top computer, and should bring some of their own data - lists of germplasm pertaining to a current nursery and trial, one or more sets of recent trial data.
Workshop program:
Saturday June 23
8 am to 9 am: Introduction and sign-up to the Integrated Breeding Portal (FR)
9 am to 10am: Installation of Cassava databases (ICASS) on user computers (AA)
10 am to 10:30 am: Coffee break
10:30 am to 11:30 am: Data Management Strategy for Integrated Breeding (GM)
11:30 am to 12:30 pm: Managing information of Cassava Germplasm (FR)
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm: Lunch Convention center upstairs
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm : Importing users' germplasm information into ICASS (AA)
2:30 pm to 3:30 pm: Importing and managing germplasm records - continued (GM/FR/AA)
3:30 pm to 4:00 pm: Coffee break
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm: The Cassava trait ontology and trait dictionary (FR)
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm: Free time
6:00 pm: drinks and dinner at lobby restaurant
Sunday June 24
8 am to 10 am: Managing information for population development and selection (Nurseries) (AA)
10 am to 10:30 am: Coffee break
10:30 am to 11:30 am: Exercises on Nursery management - continued (GM/FR/AA)
11:30 am to 12:30 pm: Managing information for evaluation in field trials (GM)
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm: Lunch Convention center upstairs
1:30 pm to 3:30 pm : Exercises on IB Fieldbook (GM/FR/AA)
3:30 pm to 4:00 pm: Coffee and closing
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