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Dr Cary Fowler, | |
 | Cary Fowler is Executive Secretary of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, Rome, Italy. Formerly he was Professor and Director of Research in the Department for International Environment & Development Studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He headed the secretariat that produced the UN's first global assessment of the sate of the world's crop diversity as well as FAO's Plan of Action for Plant Genetic Resources, adopted by 150 countries in 1996. |
Dr Ken Street, | |
 | Ken Street is the Legume Curator for ICARDA's collection. He is particularly committed to developing more rational and effective ways to utilize genetic resource collections. Following his PhD at the University of Western Australia (UWA), he worked as a research officer for the Faculty of Agriculture, UWA. Since 1999, he has worked at the Genetic Resource Unit of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) where he has coordinated a series of Australian funded projects focused on genetic resource conservation and utilisation. |
Professor Adam Lukaszewski, | |
 | Adam Lukaszewski majored in Horticulture and received his PhD in Plant Genetics from Polish Academy of Sciences. Back in 1974 he found an old microscope in a closet of his laboratory and prepared a random squash of a root tip. He has since made a career of playing with chromosomes. While his primary focus is the development chromosome constructs for plant breeding, he is particularly interested in trying to understand the rules of chromosome behavior. He is currently a Professor of Genetics at the University of California, Riverside. |
Professor Graham Moore, | |
 | Graham arrived at John Innes Centre via a torturous route of applying to medical school, human genetics and a chance meeting on a train with Sir Ralph Riley. On route to studying the molecular and cellular basis of the Ph1 locus, he exploited wheat to show the usefulness of rice and brachypodium genomes, to develop the first plant chromosome specific flow sorted library, cDNA-AFLP display and to show centromere behaviour later reported in the yeast (crop to model). He was awarded the Royal Society Darwin Medal. |
Dr Catherine Feuillet, | |
 | Catherine Feuillet is research director and leader of the group "Structure, function and evolution of the wheat genomes" at the INRA, Clermont-Ferrand (France). She was educated as a geneticist and molecular biologist and has worked for 10 years in Switzerland on the genomics of disease resistance in wheat and barley. She is one of the co-chairs of the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC), the International Triticeae Mapping Initiative (ITMI), and the European Triticeae Genomics Initiative (ETGI). |
Dr Katrien Devos, | |
 | Katrien Devos obtained her PhD at the University of Ghent, Belgium. She spent her early career at the John Innes Centre, Norwich (UK), first as a Wheat Geneticist and later as a Comparative Cereal Genomicist. Major research achievements from this period include her contributions to the first genetic maps of wheat and to the grass consensus map, better known as The Crop Circle, which outlines the genome relationships between the major cereals. In 2003, she moved to the University of Georgia, Athens, where she studies the organization of the wheat genome at the sequence level and its relationship with the small-genome wheat relative, Brachypodium distachyon. |
Dr Justin Faris, | |
 | Justin Faris received his PhD. in 1999 from Kansas State University under the guidance of Dr Bikram Gill. In 2000, Dr Faris began working as a Research Geneticist for the USDA-Agricultural Research Service in Fargo, ND, USA. Dr Faris's research program is focused on the mapping, cloning, and genomic analysis of disease resistance and domestication related genes in wheat, durum, and wild wheat relatives. |
Professor Beat Keller, | |
 | Beat Keller is Professor for Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Zurich. He is a molecular geneticist by training (University of Basel) and started to study plant systems as an EMBO long-term Fellow at the Salk Institute in San Diego, USA. After returning to Switzerland, he initiated a research project in wheat molecular genetics within the breeding department of the Swiss Federal Research Station for Agronomy. In 1997, he joined the Institute of Plant Biology at the University of Zurich as full professor and institute director. |
Dr Richard Richards, | |
 | Dr Richard Richards is a Chief Research Scientist and Program Leader of 'High Performance Crops for Australia' at CSIRO Plant Industry in Canberra. His research interests are to understand the genetic and physiological basis of variation in growth, development and yield of wheat, and then to apply this understanding to breed higher yielding wheats - particularly in water-limited environments. This research has resulted in over 100 refereed scientific publications. In addition, seven wheat cultivars developed by Richard and his group have been released commercially in Australia in the last decade. Richard is also Principal Scientist for the wheat breeding company, HRZ Wheats P/L. |
Dr Brian Fowler, | |
 | Brian Fowler is a Professor and Eco-Agriculture Research Chair in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan where his primary responsibilities have been in the areas of plant breeding and agronomy with special emphasis on cold hardiness. His pioneering research and development efforts have been instrumental in allowing a major northern expansion of the North American Great Plains winter wheat production area. Dr Fowler is a Fellow of both the Canadian and American Societies of Agronomy and he is currently Program Leader of a large scale Genome Canada project on Crop Adaptation Genomics. |
Dr Gerard Branlard, | |
 | Gerard Branlard is a scientist at the National Institute for Research in Agronomy, INRA Clermont Ferrand, France. For the past 30 years, he has carried out studies on genetic and biochemical bases of wheat quality. He has developed proteomics approach to analyse the influences of both genetic and environmental factors on wheat kernel composition. He currently leads the group of integrative and functional biology of wheat. |
Professor Keith Edwards, | |
 | Keith Edwards is the Professor of cereal functional genomics within the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, UK. He is the academic director of the University's Transcriptomics Facility and he is the Editor in Chief to the Plant Biotechnology Journal. Keith has spent 25 years working in the area of cereal genetics and genomics, his current wheat-based research interests include SNP-based marker systems, using transcriptomics to study wheat development and manipulating mismatch repair to increase genetic diversity. |
Professor Jorge Dubcovsky, | |
 | Jorge Dubcovsky was born in Argentina in 1957 and currently works as a Professor and Wheat Breeder at the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis, US. He has published 125 peer reviewed paper on wheat breeding and genetics that have been cited over 2600 times. His contributions include the discovery of the frost tolerance locus Fr2 and the positional cloning of the vernalization genes Vrn1, Vrn2 and Vrn3, and the high grain protein gene Gpc-B1. Dr Dubcovsky is a fellow member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has received the 2007 USDA Discovery award. |
Professor Stephen Baenziger, | |
 | P. (Peter) Stephen Baenziger is the Eugene W. Price Distinguished Professor in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture at the University of Nebraska. He earned degrees from Harvard University in biochemical sciences (1972) and from Purdue University in plant breeding and genetics (M.S. 1975, Ph.D. 1975). A prolific plant breeder, he has coreleased 35 cultivars and published over 180 papers. Dr. Baenziger is active in scientific societies and the Chair of the National Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee and the Subcommittee on Genomics for the National Wheat Improvement Committee. |
Mr Hadyn Kuchel, | |
 | Haydn gained his Bachelor of Agricultural Science from the University of Adelaide with Honours in the Animal Science department at the end of 2000. He then began a PhD in the Plant Science department of the University of Adelaide investigating the impact of molecular markers on wheat breeding. Since 2002 he has worked as a wheat breeder with Australian Grain Technologies, leading the wheat breeding programme at Roseworthy. |
Mr Michael Bevan, | |
 | Mike Bevan is head of the Cell and Developmental Biology Dept at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK. He is a Principal Investigator of the DOE Brachypodium distachyon genome project and leads the UK contribution to physical mapping of the bread wheat genome. His other research interests involve the elucidation of growth control mechanisms in Arabidopsis. |
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