Plant Breeding Lecture Series
Data Analysis Innovations Contributing to Crop Improvement
May 18-19, 2006
Iowa State University
Great Hall, Iowa State Memorial Union
Ames, Iowa
Agenda
May 18, 2006
Thursday Morning
Great Hall, Memorial Union
8:30 Chris Theobald, Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland
Bayesian solutions to some decision problems in crop management and variety choice (PDF 160 KB)
10:00 Break
10:30 Laurence Moreau, Station de Genetique Vegetale, France
Marker-assisted selection for complex traits: From theory to experiments
Noon Lunch
Sun Room
Thursday Afternoon
Great Hall, Memorial Union
1:30 Shizhong Xu, University of California, Riverside
Application of Mixed Models to Crop Improvement
3:00 Break
3:30 James Holland, USDA-ARS, North Carolina State University
Epistasis: Everywhere and Nowhere
5:00 Conversations, Cash Bar, Sun Room
May 19, 2006
Friday Morning
Great Hall, Memorial Union
8:30 David Butruille, Monsanto Company
Applying molecular marker information and data mining to a commercial breeding pipeline (PDF 2.6 MB)
10:00 Break
10:30 Daniel Nettleton, Iowa State University
Plant Breeders have always managed large amounts of phenotypic data. Parallel biotechnological and computational developments, however, are opening new possibilities for the analysis of this data. This year’s speakers will explore methods that capitalize on these possibilities and provide new opportunities for crop improvement.
The Plant Breeding Lecture Series is FREE and OPEN to all.