24-27 April, 2010 Bologna, Italy

www.gpgr2.com

BolognaFiere, Piazza della Costituzione 4

KEYNOTE SpEaKErS

Congress Keynote Speaker

Gebisa Ejeta 2009 World Food Prize

Purdue University, Lafayette, IN, USA

Opening Keynote Speaker

Emile Frison

Director, Bioversity, Rome, Italy

Closing Keynote Speaker

andreas Graner Director, IPK, Gatersleben, Germany

SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS

Co-organiZerS

ALMA MATER STUDIORUMUNIVERSITà DI BOLOGNA www.pastatrend.com

The Congress is hosted at PASTATREND

BolognaFiere 24-27 april, 2010

The Greatest Event for the Pasta World

PASTATREND

• advances in managing and exploiting genetic resources

• Harnessing plant diversity: from sequence to function

• Harnessing plant diversity: genomics-based breeding

• Germplasm improvement and new crops

INvITEd SpEaKErS

Zoltan Bedo

david Bergvinson

Orlando deponti

richard Flavell

Jean-Christophe Glaszmann

Elcio Guimaraes

Scott Jackson

Jizeng Jia

Beat Keller

Maarten Koornneef

peter Langridge

Suk-Ha Lee

albrecht Melchinger

Michele Morgante

alain Murigneux

antoni rafalski

Ulrich Schurr

peter Shewry

Stefano Tartarini

Joe Tohme

Serena varotto

rajeev varshney

riccardo velasco

richard visser

robbie Waugh

Lothar Willmitzer

Masahiro Yano

• Translational research: from model and wild species to crops

• Genomics-assisted crop improvement for food security in developing countries

• Genetic resources for nutritional quality

• The next challenges

For further information: www.gpgr2.com

Via Riva Reno 61 - 40122 Bologna, ItalyPhone: +39 051 65 64 300 Fax: +39 051 65 64 334E-mail: congressi@avenuemedia.eu Web site: www.avenuemedia.eu

Prof. Roberto TuberosaDepartment of Agroenvironmental Sciences and Technology (DiSTA)University of Bologna Viale Fanin 44 - 40127 Bologna, Italy Phone: +39 051 2096646Fax: +39 051 2096241 E-mail: roberto.tuberosa@unibo.it

Genomicsof PlantGenetic Resources

The registration of GpGr2 includes the entrance to pastaTrend www.pastatrend.com

abstract submission deadline: 31 January, 2010

Emile Frison (Chair) Bioversity, Rome, Italy

andreas Graner (Vice Chair) IPK, Gatersleben, Germany

roberto Tuberosa (local organizer) University of Bologna, Italy ––––––––––––––––––––––––

Zoltan Bedo President, EUCARPIA, Martonvasar, Hungary

david Bergvinson Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA

Orlando de ponti President, International Seed Federation, Nyon, Switzerland

Cary Fowler Global Crop Diversity Trust, Rome, Italy

richard Flavell Ceres Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, USA

Jean Christophe Glaszmann GCP and CIRAD, Montpellier, France

Elcio Guimaraes GIPB, FAO, Rome, Italy

Toby Hodgkin Bioversity, Rome, Italy

Jizeng Jia Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Maarten Koornneef Max-Planck Institute, Cologne, Germany

peter Langridge ACPFG, Adelaide, Australia

Suk-Ha Lee President, International Crop Science Society, Seoul, Korea

alain Murigneaux Limagrain, Clermont Ferrand, France

Milena Ouzunova KWS, Einbeck, Germany

Wayne powell IBERS and Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK

antoni rafalski DuPont-Pioneer, Wilmington, DE, USA

rajeev varshney GCP and ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India

Masahiro Yano NIAS, Tsukuba, Japan

organiZing and Program Committee

Karim ammar CIMMYT, Mexico

pere arus IRTA, Cabrils, Spain

atanas atanassov AgroBioInstitute, Sofia, Bulgaria

Francois Balfourier INRA, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Eugenio Benvenuto ENEA, Rome, Italy

antonio Blanco University of Bari, Italy

andreas Börner IPK, Gatersleben, Germany

Marina Carcea INRAN, Rome, Italy

Luigi Cattivelli CRA, Foggia, Italy

Carla Ceoloni University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

antonio Costa de Oliveira Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil

Tzion Fahima Haifa University, ISrael

Beat Keller University of Zurich, Switzerland

Shahryar Kianian North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA

Giuseppe Mandolino CRA, Bologna, Italy

albrecht Melchinger University of Hohenheim, Germany

Luigi Monti University of Naples, Italy

Michele Morgante University of Udine, Italy

roberto papa University of Ancona, Italy

Enrico pè Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

domenico pignone Plant Genetic Institute, Bari, Italy

Enrico porceddu University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

Elena potokina Vavilov Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

Francesco Salamini PTP, Lodi, Italy

Karl Schmid University of Hohenheim, Germany

riccardo velasco IASMA, San Michele all’Adige, Italy

richard visser Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Kazuo Watanabe University of Tsukuba, Japan

robbie Waugh SCRI, Dundee, UK

SCientiFiC Committee

Honorary Committee

Gebisa Ejeta Purdue University, Lafayette, IN, USA

Eviatar Nevo University of Haifa, Israel

Calvin Qualset University of California, Davis, CA, USA

Silviero Sansavini University of Bologna, Italy

Gian Tommaso Scarascia Mugnozza President, National Academy of Sciences, Rome, Italy

SCientiFiC SeCretariat CongreSS SeCretariat