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Bayliss Seminar Series : Big genomes, big data, big progress? Reference sequences for wheat and barley and their future impact Other events...
Barley and wheat both represent crop species of global importance; wheat and barley are two of the three most important crops of Europe. Despite their economic importance, both species are lagging behind many other plant / crop species in respect to access to their genomes and gene complements – basic resources required for establishing genomics-based breeding strategies, which are seen as important components of the tool box needed to tackle future global challenges to feed a growing world population under changing environment and increasingly limited water, arable land and fertilizer resources.

Due to the perseverance of international wheat and barley genome sequencing consortia (IWGSC, www.wheatgenome.org; IBSC, barleygenome.org), reference sequences of both barley and wheat are soon publicly available. Access to these reference sequences is removing major limitations for research and application and is already changing our approaches of how genetic factors underlying crop performance are being isolated. However, the international research community has to proof now that wheat and barley genome sequences allow us to establish genomics-based crop improvement strategies to help closing the yield gap.

Nils Stein earned his PhD in Genetics at University of Hohenheim (Stuttgart, Germany) in 1997. He worked as a postdoc (1998-2001) in the laboratory of Beat Keller, University of Zurich, Switzerland. He moved to IPK Gatersleben in 2001 and since 2007 he is leading the group Genomics of Genetic Resources (former Genome Diversity) at the Genebank department.

The main focus of his research is structural and comparative genome analysis in Triticeae species, mainly barley (Hordeum vulgare). Nils is co-coordinator of the European Triticeae Genomics Initiative (ETGI) and since 2008 he coordinates the International Barley Genome Sequencing Consortium (IBSC) and also the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC).
Speaker(s) Nils Stein, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
Location Bayliss Building, G33
Contact The School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Team <[email protected]> : 6488 4402
Start Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:00
End Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:45
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Last Updated Mon, 12 Sep 2016 09:22
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