ICRISAT’s Centre of Excellence in Genomics (CEG) is celebrating its Tenth Anniversary by organizing a two-day symposium during Dec 7-8, 2017 at ICRISAT Campus, Hyderabad, India. More details are available at ceg.icrisat.org.

CEG is making it possible for agricultural breeding and research programs to fully utilize modern genomics tools in developing countries. The symposium is expected to discuss anticipated advances, requirements and challenges for data generation, analysis as well as the application of genomics for understanding plant biology and crop improvement.

Inaugural Session Speakers
Huangming Yang
Chairman & Co-founder
BGI-Shenzhen
China		T Mohapatra
Director General
ICAR & Secretary DARE
India		K VijayRaghavan
Secretary
Department of Biotechnology (DBT)
India		David Bergvinson
Director General
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
India		Rajeev Varshney
Research Program Director -
Genetic Gains
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
India
Key Speakers
Mike Bevan
John Innes Centre
UK		Mario Caccamo
NIAB
UK		Dave Edwards
University of Western Australia
Australia		Andrew Farmer
NCGR
USA		JC Glaszmann
CIRAD
France
Andreas Graner
IPK-Gatersleben
Germany		BinHan
Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences
China		Sachiko Isobe
Kazusa DNA Research Institute
Japan		Scott Jackson
University of Georgia
USA		Jonathan Jones
The Sainsbury Laboratory
UK
Christian Jung
University of Kiel
Germany		Benjamin Kilian
The Crop Trust
Germany		Suk-Ha Lee
Seoul National University
Korea		Erez Lieberman
Baylor College of Medicine
USA		David Marshall
The James Hutton Institute
UK
Rob Martienssen
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
USA		Albrecht Melchinger
University of Hohenheim
Germany		Frank Ordon
Julius Kuhn-Institut (JKI)
Germany		Catherine Potenski
Nature Genetics
USA		Jochen Reif
IPK-Gatersleben
Germany
Wolfram Weckwerth
University of Vienna
Austria		Qifa Zhang
Huazhong Agricultural University
China

Khaled Amiri, Khalifa Center for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (KCGEB), UAE

Bhagirath Choudhary, South Asia Biotechnology Centre (SABC), India

Swapan Datta, Visva-Bharati University, India

Jeff Ehlers, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA

Ivo Grosse, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

Baozhu Guo, University of Georgia, USA

PK Gupta, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, India

Arvind Kumar, IRRI-Philippines, Philippines

Hon Ming Lam, The Chinese Uni of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Chikelu Mba, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy

Mike Olsen, CIMMYT-Kenya, Kenya

Ajay Parida, Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), India

BM Prasanna, CIMMYT-Nairobi, Kenya

Kuldeep Singh, ICAR-NBPGR, India

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