A one day conference to celebrate the founding of The Plant Breeding Institute
Wednesday 20th June 2012
held at the Conference Centre, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH
Programme
09:30 Registration and refreshments
10:00 Welcome and Introduction
10:10 Dick Flavell- Historical significance of PBI in UK research
10:40 Bill Angus - Plant breeding past and future
11:10 Refreshment Break
11: 40 James Brown - Disease resistance research
12:10 Graham Moore - History of alien introgression
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Mike Bevan - Sequencing the wheat genome
14:00 Caroline Dean - Flowering time
14:30 Nick Harberd – DELLA and dwarfing genes
15:00 Refreshment Break
15:30 Rob Martienssen, Sponsored by BBSRC- Guest international/external speaker
16:00 David Baulcombe- plenary talk on plant science and food security
16:30 Concluding remarks: John Bingham, Colin Law, John Snape
16:45 Plot/Site Tours
18:00 Drinks Reception
18:30 Lord Selborne - Evening guest speaker followed by Hog Roast/Strawberries and cream
For further information and to register
email: dawn.barrett@nbi.ac.uk
telephone: 01603 255328
web: www.jic.ac.uk/events/pbi
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