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TGAC strikes again at world’s largest agri-genomics conference  


Norwich, United Kingdom
January 11, 2016

The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) has a major presence at the 24th Plant and Animal Genomes (PAG) conference this year. A large proportion of TGAC’s research concerns wheat genetics; it’s the most important crop for global nutrition - our scientists gave five talks about it, along with workshops and posters.
The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) has a major presence at the 24th Plant and Animal Genomes (PAG) conferencethis year. A large proportion of TGAC’s research concerns wheat genetics; it’s the most important crop for global nutrition - our scientists gave five talks about it, along with workshops and posters.

Wheat focus

In the ‘Mutation Screening’ workshop on Saturday 9 January, Dr Ksenia Krasileva talked about a huge public library of wheat mutations, many of them grown and chosen for interesting or promising effects. This collaborative resource is extremely valuable; it represents rapid and focused evolution of wheat, analysed and available for further development.

Dr Krasileva is giving two further talks (both on Wednesday 13) on methods for using this resource, specifically for expressing homoeolog-masked mutations in the polyploid genome, and identifying and ordering seed stock with further mutations of interest from the UC Davis – Dubcowski Lab.

Forefront of genomics

Dr Matt Clark closed the morning session with a lecture on new sequencing approaches tackling the wheat genome diversity. TGAC scientists are advancing us into the wheat pan-genomic era – multiple robust wheat genome assemblies created from the same pipeline as the Chinese Spring lab strain. This lecture held a prestigious time-slot indicating the importance of TGAC’s achievements at the forefront of genomics research, specifically the impact of the work funded by the BBSRC sLOLA grant for wheat/global food security.

Dr Clark also has another lecture on Tuesday 12 on the integration of wheat genomics data, as part of the ‘IWGSC - Standards and Protocols’ session – again, reflecting the importance of the recent genome release, which allows unprecedented confidence and value in other data via integration/alignment.

 

Crop data tools

 

Aside from wheat, we also have TGAC scientists discussing their research on genomics of other crop species, and also bioinformatics platforms and tools.

On Sunday 10 January, Dr Robert Davey was involved in a workshop and a talk, both concerned with challenges, opportunities and standards in plant science data management. TGAC scientists are pioneering advances in scientific publishing – Collaborative Open Plant Omics (COPO) forms a web of linked semantic knowledge via improved aggregation, search and retrieval of research objects – not just journal publications but images, presentations, code, datasets and workflows – anything deemed to be relevant.

 

On Monday 11, Dr Davey also presented iPlant in a talk and workshop; iPlant facilitates the production, storage and reproduction of bioinformatics workflows, via a convenient graphical user interface. This is a large collaborative effort co-led by TGAC with UK and US collaborators, extending the successful US project.

Potatoes and yams

On Sunday 10 January, Dr Pirita Paajanen presented a project to sequence and assemble the genome of a wild Mexican potato, Solanum verrucosum, chosen as a model organism for its ‘late blight’ resistance and relative genomic simplicity – it’s self-pollinating and highly homozygous. This wild potato may provide useful genetic traits for potato breeding though the tubers are tiny. But this project has as much focus upon benchmarking genome assembly tools as the potential benefit to crop breeders – the relative efficacy of several DNA libraries, assembly scaffold techniques and sequencing platforms was assessed.

TGAC’s final contribution to the PAG talks is on Wednesday 13 January, with Ben White’s talk about generating the reference genome assemblies and annotation for Yam species Dioscorea alata; an important food crop in many warmer climes that will provide a useful genome resource for comparative analysis with other staple and orphan crop species around the globe.

Talks from TGAC

Please see below for a list of all talks from the TGAC Faculty at PAG XXIV (speakers in bold):

TGAC Poster sessions

TGAC Faculty are also involved in the conference Poster sessions that takes place Monday 11 January (10:00-11:30 Even poster numbers; 15:00-16:30 Odd poster numbers - TGAC researcher present in bold).

 



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Published: January 11, 2016


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