Co-Located Conference AgendasAgriGenomics India 2017 | Technologies for Value Addition in Food Products | 
Thursday, 20 July 2017 |
Draft Agenda- Subject to Change |
| | 08:00 | Registration | 09:00 | Inauguration | 09:05 | Welcome Address | 09:15 | Speaker Introduction & Memento Presentation | 09:30 | Release of Brochure | 09:35 | Group Photograph | |
Session 1: Plant Functional & Translational Genomics |
| | 09:45 | | 10:30 | Transposon-mediated Genome Tour in Cereals
Jaswinder Singh, Associate Professor, McGill University, Canada
| 11:05 | Q/A Discussion | 11:15 | Coffee Break and Networking Session | |
Session 2: Defense Mechansim for Biotic & Abiotic Stress |
| | 11:45 | From Genomic to Functional Genomic of Plant Protein Phosphatases in Abiotic Stress
Girdhar Pandey, Professor, University of Delhi, India
| 12:20 | Mutational Genomics to accelerate Disease Resistance Gene Cloning in Complex Plant Genome
Sambasivam Periyannan, Research Scientist, CSIRO, Australia
Accelerating disease resistance gene cloning in plants through combinations of mutagenesis and advancements in gene capture and sequencing techniques. | 12:50 | Long Non-Coding RNAs and their Impact on Plant Development and Stress Response
Kashmir Singh, Assistant Professor, Panjab University, India
| 13:25 | Integrated Pest Management
Mukesh Sehgal, Principal Scientist, National Centre for Integrated Pest Management (ICAR), India
| 13:40 | Q/A Discussion | 13:50 | Lunch Break and Networking Session | 14:35 | Poster Evaluation | |
Session 3: Regulatory and Biosafety Issues in GM Crops |
| | 15:00 |  | Keynote Presentation Genomic Knowledge & Transgenic Mustard
Deepak Pental, Professor & Ex Vice Chancellor, University of Delhi, India
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| 15:45 |  | Keynote Presentation Regulatory issues in GM crops in India: Learnings from Bt-Cotton and Opportunities Beyond
Rakesh Tuli, J C Bose National Fellow & Sr Research Advisor, University Institute of Engineering & Technology, Panjab University, India
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| 16:30 | Gene Editing Regulatory Aspects - IRRI Perspective
Gururaj Guddappa Kulkarni, Senior Scientist, Research Infrastructure and Operations, IRRI, Philippines
| 17:05 | Q/A Discussion | 17:15 | Understanding role of Genome-wide Epigenetic Regulation in Heterosis of Pigeonpea Hybrids
Pallavi Sinha, Associate Scientist, ICRISAT, India
| 17:45 | Q/A Discussion | 17:50 | End of First Day of Conference |
Friday, 21 July 2017 |
Draft Agenda- Subject to Change |
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Special Presentation |
| | 09:30 | Feedstock Genomics for Bioenergy
Manoj K Sharma, Assistant Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
| 10:05 | Q/A Discussion | |
Session 4: Genome Sequencing & Editing |
| | 10:10 |  | Keynote Presentation Genome Editing in Flax in Response to Environmental Stress
Christopher Cullis, Professor & Chair, Case Western Reserve University, United States of America
The presenter will discuss about the assay of subsets of these indel variants in the progeny from 19 individuals from three different nutrient regimes, from other flax accessions and even the wild progenitor of flax, Linum bienne which shows that in every case the same two alternative structures are seen. Such reproducible large scale variation is unlikely to occur through multiple independent events and therefore an editing mechanism by which long tracts of the genome can be replaced with an alternative structure is being proposed, and the genes controlling this process mapped. |
| 10:55 | Reading Banana Genome Book for Putative Salt Tolerance Associated DNA Markers
V Arunachalam, Principal Scientist, Central Coastal Agricultural Research Institute, India
DNA bands targeting salt tolerance associated marker region in the banana genome were sequenced. One of the sequences matched with phenolic glucoside malonyl-transferase 2-like gene located on chromosome 4. | 11:25 | Q/A Discussion | 11:35 | Coffee Break and Networking Session | |
Session 5: Advances in Genetic & Genomic Approaches for Breeding |
| | 12:05 | Mushroom hybridization and Biotechnological Approaches in Fungal Breeding
Manjit Singh, Ex-Director, ICAR-DMR, Solan, , India
| 12:40 | Development and Validation of 50K Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) arrays (Axiom®CicerSNP Array) for accelerating Genetics and Breeding in Chickpea
Manish Roorkiwal, Scientist - Genomics and Molecular Breeding, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, India
| 13:10 | Marker Assisted Screening of Indian Wheat Varieties for the presence of Alien Leaf Rust Resistance Gene Lr34 and Linked Gene Yr18
Anjali Rai, Research Scholar, Indian Agriculture Research Institute, India
| 13:25 | Q/A Discussion | 13:35 | Poster Viewing | 14:20 | Lunch Break and Networking Session | |
Session 6: Plant Metabolomics - Engineering & Synthetic Biology Approaches |
| | 14:45 | Genomics for Understanding Secondary Metabolism in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
Sumit Gandhi, Sr. Scientist, Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (CSIR-IIIM), India
| 15:20 | Chitosan Induction of Defense Response against Basal Stem Rot Disease caused by Ganoderma spp. in young Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis)
Christina Supramaniam, Assistant Professor, The University of Nottingham , Malaysia
| 15:55 | (Drop-out) Elucidating Salt-Toleranct Metabolic Pathways with ‘Omics’ Approach in Indica Rice
Vandna Rai, Senior Scientist, National Research Center on Plant Biotechnology, India
| 16:20 | Coffee Break and Networking Session | 16:30 | Q/A Discussion | 16:40 | Cyclotides: A Plethora of Plant Defense Peptides against Biotic Stress
Manasi Mishra, DST-INSPIRE Faculty, Shiv Nadar University, India
| 16:55 | Metabolic Engineering for Enhanced Production of Provitamin A in Banana
Navneet Kaur, Project SRF, NABI, India
| 17:10 | Q/A Discussion | 17:20 | Poster Award Presentation | 17:25 | Closing Remarks and Vote of Thanks | 17:30 | End of Conference |
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