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Introduction

A major ERA-PG workshop was held on 29-30 June 2005, at the John Innes Centre in Norwich. This workshop brought together 84 representatives from science, science policy and industry.

The programme included:
• Presentations of the outcome of the inventories of ERA-PG Workpackage 1.
• Presentations of the views from industry.
• Workshop breakout sessions on crops, traits, and technologies.
• Workshop breakout session on the administration & evaluation procedures
• Workshop breakout session on IPR and legal issues

The following documents provide background:
- ERA-PG report Plant Genomics in Europe
- Plants for the Future, a vision paper from the Technology Platform
- European plant science: a field of opportunities, EPSO paper in J. Exp. Bot. link

Participants

List of participants: participants

Programme

Pdf version of Workshop Programme: Programme (pdf)

ERA-PG Workshop 2005.
John Innes Centre, Norwich UK.

Wednesday 29th June

 

Welcome and opening introduction.  

ERA-NET Plant Genomics
An opportunity for collaborative research
coordinated by national plant genomics programmes
Willem Stiekema (CBSG, NL)

 

presentation slides / presentation handout9.15 – 10.00

General sessions

 

  

1. Findings of ERA-PG: presentations by task leaders.

  

National Programmes
Christine Bunthof (NGI, NL)

presentation slides / presentation handout10.00 – 10.30

Programme Implementation Approaches
Stephan Micha (PTJ-BIO, DE)

presentation slides / presentation handout10.30 – 11.00

Coffee

 11.00 – 11.30

The Landscape of Plant Genomics in Europe
Thomas Goujon (INRA, FR)

presentation slides / presentation handout11.30 – 12.00

Europe’s Competitiveness
Sophie Laurie (BBSRC, UK)

presentation slides / presentation handout12.00 – 12.30

Lunch

 

 12.30 – 13.30

2. View from the Technology Platform

  

Chris Lamb (JIC UK) 13.30 – 14.00


 

presentation slides / presentation handout 

3. Vision of the future of EU plant science – view from the scientists.

  

Mark Stitt (MPIMP DE)

 

presentation slides / presentation handout14.00 – 14.30

4. Views from Industry

  

a) Food industry
Vincent Pétiard (Nestlé, FR)

presentation slides / presentation handout14.30 – 14.55

b) Agrochemical Industry
Dieter Berg (Bayer Bioscience, DE)

presentation slides / presentation handout14.55 – 15.20

c) Plant breeders
Tina Barsby (Nickersons/Biogemma, UK)

presentation slides / presentation handout15.20 – 15.45

d) Biotechnology Industry
Arjen van Tunen (Keygene, NL)

presentation slides / presentation handout15.45 – 16.10

Tea

 

 16.10 – 16.40

5. Discussion session and preparation for breakout workshops – aims and ambitions

  

Alf Game (BBSRC UK)

 

presentation slides / presentation handout16.40 – 17.30

Evening dinner at the University of East Anglia

 

 18.30

After dinner speaker
Dr. Machi Dilworth (NSF, USA)

 

presentation slides / presentation handout20.00

Thursday 30th June

 

Breakout sessions

Subject
Chair
Reporter
Outcome summary
1. Crops (Opportunities for translational research)Francesco Salamini (IT)Thomas Goujon (FR)report pdf
2. Traits (Defining the systems)Jaakko Kangasjärvi (FI)Sophie Laurie (UK)report pdf
3. Technologies (including data standardisation)Atle Bones (NO)Christine Bunthof (NL)report pdf
4. IPR issuesVerena Simpson (DK)Stephan Micha (DE)

report pdf

5. Admin and evaluation.Okker van Batenburg (NL)Päive Teivainen-Lædre (NO)report pdf
08.30 – 10.00

Coffee

 10.00 – 10.30

Breakout sessions - continued

 10.30 – 11.30

Breakout circulation: groups to move round different sessions

 11.30 – 12.30

Lunch and compilation of feedback

 12.30 – 14.00

Feedback from breakout facilitators/chairs (7 mins each max) and general discussion (45 minutes), led by breakout chairs

 

 14.00 – 15.20

Way forward/workpackage 3

  

The way forward - WP 3
Jens Freitag (GABI, DE)

 

presentation slides / presentation handout15.20 – 15.30

Final lecture and close

  

The magic of heterosis: how come 1 1>2?
Dani Zamir (Israel)

 

presentation slides / presentation handout15.30 – 16.30