The Professor Ian Mackay Seminar - 1 February

Agenda

9.30am Registration

10.30 Welcome and introduction

Professor Mario Caccamo, NIAB Chief Executive and Professor Wayne Powell, SRUC Principal and Chief Executive

10.50 Chair: Professor Mario Caccamo

• MAGIC moments: the potential of pre-breeding - Dr Phil Howell, Head of Plant Breeding, NIAB

• Breeding for tomorrow: insights from analyses of historical plant variety datasets - Dr Rajiv Sharma and CJ Yang, SRUC

11.40 Chair: Professor Wayne Powell

• TBC: Dr John Hickey, Head of Corn Product Design, Bayer CropScience

• TBC: Dr Sarah Hearne, Genetic Resources Program Director, CIMMYT, Mexico

12.45pm Lunch

13.35 Chair: Professor Mario Caccamo

• The analysis of variety trials for causes of the yield plateau effect - Haidee Philpott, Senior Statistician, NIAB

• TBC: Dr James Cockram, Group Leader in Trait Genetics, NIAB

• Sharing confidential genetic data for crop improvement - Professor Richard Mott Weldon, Professor of Computational and Statistical Genetics, University College London

15.00 Questions and general discussion

15.30 Closing remarks