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