09:00 – 11:00: Session 4
EXPLORING WHEAT DIVERSITY, EVOLUTION AND GENETIC RESERVOIRS
CHAIRS: Zhiyong Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Anna Maria Mastrangelo (CREA, Italy)

09:00 – 9:15
Digitalizing the wheat evolution trajectories and genetic diversity
Weilong Guo (China Agricultural University, China)

09:15 – 9:30
Genome-wide discovery of kinase fusion proteins for plant defense
Tzion Fahima (Haifa University, Israel)

09:30 – 09:45
Genetic diversity from wheat’s wild relatives
Julie King (Wheat Research Centre of Nottingham, UK)

09:45 – 10:00
Beyond the cultivated gene pool: Mining hidden genetic riches of wild germplasm
Satinder Kaur (Punjab Agricultural University, India)

10:00 – 10:15
Harnessing the genetic wealth of tetraploid wheat relatives
Elisabetta Mazzucotelli (CREA, Italy)

10:15 – 10:30
Discussion

10:30 – 11:00 SELECTED SHORT TALKS

10:30 – 10:33
Matteo Bozzoli (DISTAL, University of Bologna, Italy)
Genetic diversity characterization of Aegilops tauschii wide sequenced
collection to unlock useful alleles left-behind by domestication and breeding

10:33 – 10:36
Surbhi Grewal (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom)
Comprehensive Atlas of Wild Relative Introgressions Reveals Conserved
Introgression Patterns and Massive Untapped Diversity in Wheat Genebanks

10:36 – 10:39
Matthew Hayden (Agriculture Victoria, Melbourne, Australia)
Mapping global wheat diversity through an Australian lens

10:39 – 10:42
Max Haupt (IPK Gatersleben, Germany)
Genebank genomics provides a comprehensive genome diversity atlas
of wheat

10:42 – 10:45
Kingsley Ikenna Ikpa-Agodo (Tottori University, Tottori, Japan)
Mitochondrial hybridity in in vitro fertilization-generated maizewheat and
pearl milletwheat cybrids drive important stable phenotypic variations

10:45 – 10:48
Yael Lev-Mirom (University of Haifa, Israel)
Ancient grains illuminate the mosaic origin of domesticated wheat

10:48 – 10:51
Lorenzo Pancaldi (DISTAL, University of Bologna, Italy)
Comparative analysis of exome sequencing data reveals convergent selection
of durum and bread wheat

10:51 – 10:54
Salome Lengrand (Earth and Life Institute, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
Long-term evolution of root architecture response to soil nitrogen
management in tetraploid wheat (Triticum durum)

10:54 – 10:57
Zihao Wang (China Agricultural University; Institute of Crop Sciences, BeiJing, China)
Digital characterization of chromosome centromeric haplotypes in polyploid
wheat and their potential for breeding

10:57 – 11.00
Meryem Zaim (ICARDA, Rabat, Morocco)
Unlocking Genetic Diversity for Climate-Resilient Durum Wheat Improvement

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

11:30 – 12:30 Panel Discussion I
SOIL AND THE RHIZOSPHERE IN WHEAT PRODUCTION: THE NEW FRONTIER FOR A SUSTAINABILITY
CHAIRS: Laura Ercoli (Sant’Anna School for Advanced Studies, Italy), Lee Hickey (University of Queensland, Australia)

PANELISTS: Francisca Castillo (Neocrop Technologies, Chile)
Maria Hernandez-Soriano (John Innes Centre, UK)
Eric Ober (NIAB, UK)
Alessandra Salvioli (University of Torino, Italy)

12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 – 16:00 Session 5
WHEAT GENOMES AND PANGENOMES
CHAIRS: Valentyna Klymiuk (University of Saskatchewan, Canada), Mao Long (Shandong Agricultural University, China)

14:00 – 14:15
Tetraploid wheat pangenome to better bridge with hexaploid wheat
Marco Maccaferri (University of Bologna, Italy)

14:15 – 14:30 
Genome variation and breeding application of irradiation in wheat
Luxiang Liu (Institute of Crop Science of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China) 

14:30 – 14:45
Wheat pangenome 100+ and rising: building a global haplotype catalogue
Rajeev Varshney (Murdoch University, Australia)

14:45 – 15:00
The wheat Rchive
David Gilbert (The Wullf Lab, Saudi Arabia)

15:00 – 15:15
GWAS across wheat genomes: Insights from the Watkins collection
Adul Kader Allabdullah (John Innes Centre, UK)

15:15 – 15:30
Discussion

15:30 – 16:00 SELECTED SHORT TALKS

15:30 – 15:33
Emile Cavalet-Giorsa (KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia)
Tracing the origin of non-brittle rachis alleles in wheat

15:33 – 15:36
Susanne Dreisigacker (CIMMYT, Texcoco, Mexico)
Unlocking Long-Range Haplotype Diversity in Synthetic Hexaploid Wheat for
Breeding

15:36 – 15:39
Cristian Forestan (DISTAL, University of Bologna)
From reference transcriptome to pangenome transcriptional diversity:
regulatory networks controlling kernel development in durum wheat

15:39 – 15:42 Kerrie Forrest (Agriculture Victoria, Melbourne, Australia)
An ecosystem of digital tools to solve the FAIR data problem in the pan-genome
era

15:42 – 15:45
Weilong Guo (China Agricultural University, Beijing, China)
Digitalized Map of Homologous Clusters across Poaceae Species Unveil the
Complex Evolutional Trajectory of Genes in Triticeae

15:45 – 15:48
Fei He He (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
Genomic Investigation of Wheat Genetic Improvement: Introgression, Disease
Resistance, and Yield

15:48 – 15:51
Pauline Lasserre-Zuber (INRAE, Clermont-Ferrand, France)
The IWGSC RefSeq 3.0 and a bread wheat pangenome providing access to
worldwide diversity

15:51 – 15:56
Kentaro K. Shimizu (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
10+ Wheat Genomes Project highlights that purifying selection on deleterious
variants is shaped by the interactions between subgenomes and gene expression

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

17:00 – 19:00 – Session 6
WHEAT FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS
CHAIRS: Eduard Akhunov (Kansas State University, USA), Philippa Borrill (John Innes Centre, UK)

17:00 – 17:15
Genomics of novel disease resistance genes in wheat
Gurcharn Brar Singh (University of Alberta, Canada)

17:15 – 17:30
Genome editing for sustainable wheat production and population health
Xia Lanqin (Yazhou Bay National Laboratory, China)

17:30 – 17:45
Deciphering the genetic basis of end-use quality in wheat
Yao Yingyin (China Agricultural University, China)

17:45 – 18:00
Evaluation of the fate of wild-relative introgressions in wheat
Pierre Sourdille (INRAE, France)

18:00 – 18:15
Induced mutations and application in genetic analysis of wheat yield
Huijun Guo (CAAS, China)

18:15 – 18:30
Discussion

18:30 – 19:00 SELECTED SHORT TALKS

18:30 – 18:33
Chiara D’Attilia (University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy)
Revealing the role of IBH1 in brassinosteroid biosynthesis and signalling via
CRISPR-Cas9 knockout in durum wheat

18:33 – 18:36
Benjamin Jaegle (Agroscope, Zurich, Switzerland)
K-mer-based GWAS in a wheat collection reveals novel and diverse sources of
powdery mildew resistance

18:36 – 18:39
Miaomiao Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
Cloning of diverse disease resistance genes from wild emmer wheat for
breeding

18:39 – 18:42
Yunchuan Liu (John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom)
Rudimentary Basal Spikelet Formation in Wheat: The Tug-of-War Between
Vegetative and Differentiation

18:42 – 18:45
Long Mao (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China)
A TaKNOX1-TaAPO1-Rht1 feedback regulation orchestrates grain number and
yield in wheat

18:45 – 18:47
Tori Millsteed (QAAFI, University of Queensland, Australia)
Spatial transcriptomics of developing wheat seed reveals concentric gene
expression zones and subgenome biased expression of key genes

18:47 – 18:50
Shun Sakuma (Tottori University, Japan)
Grain Number Increase 2 (GNI2) improves floret fertility and enhances grain
yield in wheat

18:50 – 18:53
Becca Testa (John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom)
Green Be Gone: Transcription Factor NAC3 Regulates Wheat Senescence

18:53 – 19:00
Discussion