BGRI 2015 Technical Workshop

September 17-20, 2015

The 2015 BGRI Technical Workshop featured over 300 participants from 47 countries coming together in Sydney, Australia, hosted by the University of Sydney.

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Abstracts

Awards

WIT Early Career Winners

Mentor Winner

Gene Stewardship

Poster Awards

  • Best in Show
    — Diane Saunders, The Genome Analysis Centre and John Innes Centre, for “Supercharging the radars for pathogen surveillance”
  • Best Student Poster
    — Melissa Lim, University of Minnesota for “Berberis holstii is functional as an alternate host of Puccinia graminis in Ethiopia”
  • Best Farm Outcomes
    — Bekele Abeyo, CIMMYT for “Performance of CIMMYT germplasm in Ethiopia: Key materials for variety development”
  • Runner Up
    — Brande Wulff, John Innes Centre for “Targeting stem rust resistance genes Sr32 and Sr1644 for cloning by mutagenesis and sequence capture”
  • Runner Up
    — Kerri Neugebauer, Kansas State University for “Wheat Gene Expression Differences Induced by Six Races of Puccinia triticina”
Participants

327