8:00 - 9:00 am // Registration

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9:00 - 12:100 pm // Session I - Moderator: Dr. Ahmed Sallam (Advances in genetic diversity  and RNA-seq in plants)

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9:00 - 9:30 am     // Welcome and Introduction

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09:30- 10:30 am    // Plant genetic resources for future breeding and research, Prof. Dr. Andreas Börner

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10:30 - 11:00 am // Coffee Break 

 

11:00 - 11:40am  // Genome-wide SNP network analyses reveal genetic control of spikelet sterility yield-related

                              traits in wheat wheat mutants, Dr. Ahmad Alqudah

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11:40 - 12:10 am // Functional analyses of the terpenoid biosynthetic genes from two salvia species and

                               glycine max, Dr. Mohammed Ali Abd EL-Hammed Abd Alla

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12:10 am - 2:10 // Lunch Break ** (not included in the registration fees)

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02:10 - 6:10 pm // Session II - Moderator: Dr. Amir Effat (Gene identification and QTL analysis)

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02:10- 2:50 pm // Genetic diversity in selected Egyptian medicinal plants and their conservation for    

                             production of pharmaceutical substances, Prof. Dr. Abdel Fattah Badr

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02:50- 03:30 pm // Genomic Sequence & Bioinformatics: Driver of Gene Discovery in Wheat and Barley,

                               Dr. Ahmad Alqudah

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03:30 - 04:10 pm // QTL mapping for salt tolerance in Brassica. Dr. Yasser Moursi

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04:10 - 04:40 pm  //  Coffee Break 

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04:40 - 5:10 pm // Information session on Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK).    

                             Prof. Dr. Andreas Börner

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05:10 - 6:10 pm  //  Poster session