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 TALKS 

10:30 – 10:33
Emily Carr (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
An XTH gene modulates root exudate-substrate cohesion

10:33 – 10:36
Giulia Castorina (CREA, Italy)
Leveraging Wild Emmer Wheat Diversity to Unlock Adaptive Traits to Improve
Drought-Resilience in Durum Wheat

10:36 – 10:39
Miles Curl (John Innes Centre, United Kingdom)
Exploring the role of NAM-2 in delaying drought-induced senescence in wheat

10:39 – 10:42
Seidat Oluwadamilola Dauda (Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia)
Wheat’s Heat Strategy: Linking Stomatal Traits, Sugar Dynamics, and Grain
Omics to Heat Tolerance

10:42 – 10:45
Angela Juhasz (Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Australia)
From root to grain: multi-omics reveals how nitrogen, CO₂, and microbes tune
wheat drought resilience and grain quality

10:45 – 10:48
Zbynek Milec (Global Change Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic)
Wheat responses to combined drought, heat, and elevated CO2: integrative
morpho-physiological and transcriptomic insights under future climate
scenarios

10:48 – 10:51
Grace Achieng Ochieng (University of Bonn, Germany)
Identification and Functional Characterization of WUE and Drought Resilience
Factors in Wheat

10:51 – 10:54
Jun Xiao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
Identification and Functional Characterization of WUE and Drought Resilience
Factors in Wheat

10:54 – 11:00
Discussion

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)

PANELISTS: Maricelis Acevedo (Cornell University, USA),
Filippo Bassi (ICARDA, Marocco),
Richard Flavell (John Innes Centre, UK),
Petra Schulte (Goethe University, Germany)

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 TALKS 

15:30 – 15:33
Natalia Arango (King Abdullah University Of Science And Technology, Thuwal, Saudi
Arabia)
Non-host resistance genes – new sources for durable rust resistance?

15:33 – 15:36
Meriem Aoun (Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, United States)
Identification of disease resistance and sensitivity genes in U.S. hard winter
wheat

15:36 – 15:39
Lorenzo Calzini (DISTAL, University of Bologna, Italy)
Identification of Candidate Genes for Resistance to Soil-Borne Cereal Mosaic
Virus in Durum Wheat using CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing Systems

15:39 – 15:42
Samuel Holden (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)
Pan-genome facilitated discovery of dominant north American stripe rust
lineage’s origin in somatic hybridization

15:42 – 15:45
Mogens Støvring Hovmøller (Aarhus University, Agroecology, Slagelse, Denmark)
Twenty years of global disease surveillance in wheat reveals increased
vulnerability to yellow rust due to incursions of new aggressive races at
regional and global scales

15:45 – 15:48 Chunyi Liu (DISTAL, University of Bologna, Italy)
Loci relevant for yellow rust resistance in a Mediterranean multienvironmental trial networks identified from the Global Durum Genomic
Resource

15:48 – 15:51
Marion Mu ller (University of Munich, Germany)
Dual recognition of structurally unrelated mildew effectors underlies the
broad-spectrum resistance of Pm3e in wheat

15:51 – 15:54
Laura Paire (INRAE, Clermont-Ferrand, France)
Meta-QTL analyses for better characterisation of the genetic architecture of
bread wheat resistance to Septoria tritici blotch

15:54 – 15:57
Kar-Chun Tan (Curtin University, Perth, Australia)
Asymmetric priority effects between co-infecting wheat pathogens undermine
single-pathogen resistance

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)

PANELISTS: Marc Albertsen (Ex Corteva, USA),
Hans Braun (ex CIMMYT, Mexico),
Josè Crossa (CIMMYT, Mexico),
Nigussie Dechasa (EIAR, Ethiopia),
Xiangdong Fu (CAAS, China),
Guillermo Gerard (CIMMYT, Mexico),
Xueyong Zhang (CAAS, China)

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