Schedule


DAY 1 - 24. OCTOBER 2023

TIMETOPIC
12:30Registration
13:00Welcome and Introduction by the Organising Team
13:10Welcome by the Dean Ralf Vögele
13:20Welcome by the representative of KWS Viktor Korzun
13:35Gregor Gorjanc - Application of tree sequences to boost breeding in the era of mega-scale genomics
14:20Lydia Kienbaum - Bringing phenotyping into the 21st century: Extracting plant traits from images with deep neural networks
15:05Coffee Break
16:00Elevator Pitch Session: The organising team members present their work
16:30

Guusje Bonnema - Lettuce breeding for vertical farming: Modulating plant circadian rhythms to maximise yield potential

17:15Sreekala Chellamma - Doubled Haploids: Technology advancements and applications
19:00Symposium Dinner

DAY 2 - 25. OCTOBER 2023

TIMETOPIC
08:30Welcome by the Organising Team
08:35Welcome by the representative of Corteva Frank Röber
08:50Research in Hohenheim: Sandra Schmöckel
09:10Research in Hohenheim: Karl Schmid
09:35Elevator Pitch Session: The organising team members present their work
10:05Coffee Break
10:45

Carus John-Bejai - Something old, something new and something borrowed: Deployment of plant genetic resources in commercial Triticum aestivum breeding programs

11:30Tim Beissinger - Shooting for the moon: Applying genomic prediction forward, backward, and one plant at a time
12:15Final words by the Organising Team
12:30

Lunch and get-together