09:00 – 11:00: Session 8 DEVELOPING CLIMATE-SMART WHEAT IN THE CONTEXT OF ABIOTIC STRESSES
CHAIRS: Laura Dixon (IPK-Gatersleben, Germany), Kiran Gaikwad (ICAR, India)

09:00 – 09:15
Genomic breeding for heat tolerance at ICARDA
Hafssa Kabbaj (ICARDA, Morocco)

09:15 – 09:30
Buffering yield potential in an increasingly unstable environment
Richard Trethowan (University of Sydney, Australia)

09:30 – 09:45
A model based on allele combinations to predict phenology to prevent extreme weather events
Daniel Miralles (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)

09:45 – 10:00
The role of ambient temperatures in cereal adaptation
Laura Dixon (IPK-Gatersleben, Germany)

10:00 – 10:15
Genomic insights into terminal heat tolerance from India’s National Genebank collections
Sundeep Kumar (ICAR, India)

10:15 – 10:30
Discussion

10:30 – 11:00
Selected short (5 min) talks

11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK & POSTERS VISION

11:30 – 12:30 Panel Discussion III
INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION: CHALLENGIES AND OPPORTUNITIES
CHAIRS: Jeff Rosichan (International Wheat Yield Partnership, USA), Peter Langridge (University of Adelaide)

12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 – 16:00: Session 9
DISSECTING THE WHEAT-PATHOGEN AND PEST INTERACTION
CHAIRS: Fiona Doohan (University College Dublin), Evans Lagudah (CSIRO, Australia)

14:00 – 14:15
Integrative genomic approaches to resolve wheats genetic diversity for FHB resistance
Valentyna Klymiuk (University of Saskatechwan)

14:15 – 14:30
Dissecting wheat resistance to FHB and Septoria tritici blotch disease
Fiona Doohan (University College, Dublin, Ireland)

14:30 – 14:45
Breaking barriers: ph1b-facilitated introgression of novel disease resistance genes from Aegilops caudata
Steven Xu (USDA, USA)

14:45 – 15:00
Accelerated wheat breeding and deployment to ensure food security in Africa
Wuletaw Tadesse (ICARDA, Ethiopia)

15:00 – 15:15
Decoding wheat–fungal pathogen dynamics: Insights from durum wheat landraces
Sarrah Ben M’Barek (Regional Field Crops Research Center Béja, Tunisia)

15:15 – 15:30
Discussion

15:30 – 16:00
Selected short (5 min) talks

16:00 – 17:00 COFFEE BREAK & POSTER VISION

17:00 – 18:45 Panel Discussion IV
FROM STRAMPELLI TO INFORMED BREEDING IN A PUBLIC-PRIVATE-PARTNERSHIP SCENARIO
CHAIRS: Gemma Molero (KWS, France), Roberto Tuberosa (University of Bologna, Italy)

18:45 – 19:00
Presentation of IWC6 (2030)

20:00 – 23:00
SOCIAL DINNER 
Location: Re Enzo Palace, in the historical heart of Bologna town