Invited speakers
- Marcelo Mollinari, Quantitative Geneticist, NCSU, sweetpotato MAPpoly
- Lindsay Clark, Geneticist, UI, developed polyRAD, ploidyverse
- Antonio Augusto Franco Garcia, Geneticist and Plant Breeder, USR, Brazil, sugarcane
- Jeffrey Endelman, UW, leads the potato variety development program, specialist in GS, GWAS
- Umesh Rosyara, CIMMYT, previously worked on Strawberry and Sour Cherry, developed GWASpoly
Crop and CGIAR center representatives
- Hannele Lindqvist-Kreuze, CIP: Potato (local)
- Dorcus Gemenet, CIP: Sweetpotato
- Trushar Shar, IITA: Banana
- Catherine Breton, Bioversity: Banana
- Ranjana Bhattacharjee, IITA: Yam
- Agre Paterne, IITA: Yam
- Luis Augusto, CIAT: Forages/Cassava
- Abhishek Rathore
Local representatives
- John Schoper, Leader; Genetics, Genomics and Crop Improvement Sciences Division
- Hugo Campos, Director of Research
- Noel Anglin, Leader for Conserving Biodiversity for the Future
- Michael Freidman, Science Officer, RTB Program
- Bert de Boeck, Statistician
- Elisa Salas, Data Manager/Potato breeder
- Ciro Rosales, System Analyst
- Federico Diaz, Sweetpotato breeder
- Wolfgang Gruneberg, Sweetpotato breeder
Other representatives
- Elizabeth Jones, GOBii, module 5
- Eng NG, HTPG, module 3
- Moira Sheehan, Breeding Insight
- Tim Millar, Plant and Food Research
Tuesday May 7th: Optional field tour to see CIP potato trials
Details of tour to follow. Lunch will be provided.
Please arrive Monday May 6th if you would like to attend this tour.
Day 1 Wednesday May 8th: Crop Reports, sequencing, variant calling, marker design and data storage
Location:
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 9.00 am | Welcome | Hugo Campos |
| 9.20 am | Introductions and logistics | Liz and Dorcus |
Overview of CGIAR polyploid crops - genotyping methods, analysis methods, data storage, challenges (10 mins each?) | Moderator, Liz Jones | |
| 9.30 am | Potato | Hannele Lindqvist Kreuze |
| 9.40 am | Sweetpotato | Dorcus Gemenet |
| 9.50 am | Yam | Agre Ranjana |
| 10.00 am | CIAT crops | Luis Augusto |
| 10.10 am | Banana, IITA | Trushar Shah |
| 10.20 am | Banana, Bioversity | Catherine |
| 10.30 am | Break | |
| 11.00 am | Genotype quality in polyploids (30 mins) | Jeff Endelman |
| 11.30 am | Variant and genotype calling issues. How various tools address this. Genotype calling with PolyRAD (30 mins) | Lindsay Clark |
| 12.00 am | Haplotyping and imputation | Marcelo Mollinari or Umesh? |
| 12.30 pm | Building highly dense multilocus, multidose markers in polyploids (30 mins) | Marcelo Mollinari |
| 1 -2 pm | Lunch | |
| 2.00 pm | Presentations to help lead break-out groups | |
| 2.00 pm | File formats - ploidyverse | Lindsay Clark |
| 2.10 pm | Data storage - GOBii | Liz Jones |
| 2.20 pm | Genotyping technology methods and needs - need to be specific about goals here - technology or analysis | Jeff / Luis |
| 2.30 pm | Breakout sessions and coffee 1) Genotyping technology needs - Jeff (2) Data formats and storage - Liz (3) Data formats and ontology for markers -Lindsay | |
| 4.30 pm | Report back and discussion | |
| 5 pm | Wrap up |
Day 2 Thursday May 9th - Tools for GWAS, Mapping, QTL mapping and GS
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 9.00 am | Daily logistics | Dorcus Gemenet |
| 9.05 am | Quantitative genetics of autopolyploids. Breeding values and dominance | Jeff |
| 9.30 am | Analysis and statistics for a complex polyploids | Antonio Augusto Franco Garcia |
| 10.00 am | Linkage mapping: Comparison of tools MAPpoly to build highly dense maps in autotetraploids, autohexaploids and autooctaploids (demo 1 hr) | Marcelo Mollinari |
| 11.00 am | GWASPoly (discussion, demo 1 hr) | Umesh/Jeff |
| 12.00 pm | GWAS and genomic prediction using GAPIT, FarmCPU, and/or rrBLUP (demo 1 hr) | Lindsay Clark |
| 1.00 pm | Lunch | |
| 2.00 pm | QTLPoly (demo 1 hr) | Marcelo Mollinari |
| 3 pm | Break out discussion - how do we capture these tools. What are the gaps, needs, resources | |
| 4.30 pm | Report back | |
Day 3 Friday May 10th - Hands-on training in tools and databases, opportunities for further break-out discussions and consulting sessions
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 9.00 am | Daily logistics | Dorcus Gemenet |
| 9.10 am | The Carpentries: https://carpentries.org/ A workshop directed at R novices, covering how to import data, manipulate a data frame, and make some plots
| Lindsay Clark |
| 11.30am | GOBii - data management and analysis of genomics data | Liz Jones |
| 12.30pm | Lunch | |
| 1.30 pm | Afternoon reserved for developing proposals, defining collaborations, and small group consultations | |
| Tour of CIP potato and sweet potato Genebank tour (45 mins) | Dorcus |