INVITED SPEAKERS
Scientific program: Invited speakers
(Titles are still tentative)
Introductive session
- Forage crops and grasslands in Serbia: breeding, research and production: Dejan Sokolović, Jasmina Radović, Zoran Lugić (Institute for forage crops, Serbia), Simić Aleksandar (Agrifaculty, Begrade University, Serbia)
- Forage and grasslands in a sustainable agriculture. New challenges for breeding: Christian Huyghe (INRA, France) and Charles Brummer (Noble Foundation, USA)
Session 1- The value of genetic resources for the improvement of complex traits
- Ex situ conservation of genetic resources of forage and turf species: E. Willner (IPK Genbank, Malchow, Germany)
- Characterization of alfalfa Medicago sativa genetic resources: Isaak Rashal and Dace Grauda, Institute of Biology, University of Latvia, Latvia)
Session 1bis: Exploiting genetic diversity for complex traits
- Characterization of genetic diversity for resistance and quality traits using molecular tools: Tom Ruttink, Hilde Muylle (Ilvo, Belgium), Susanne Barth (Teagasc, Ireland)
- Association mapping approaches for characterizing complex traits in forage species: Torben Asp (University Aarhus, Denmark)
Session 2 – New methods in sustainable forage and turf breeding. Paving the way to more efficient breeding strategies
- Emerging knowledge from genome sequencing of model and crop species: Aleksandar Mikić (Novi Sad, Serbia), B. Julier (Inra, France), L. Cattivelli (Italy), D. Weigel (Germany)
- Functional genomics of grass reproductive traits– paving the way towards hybrid breeding in forage and turf grasses: Bruno Studer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
- Genomics of leaf lifespan: modifying the leaf senescence: Karin Krupinska (Christian Albrecht University, Kiel, Germany)
Session 3- Turf grass breeding
- Recent achievements in breeding for turf quality under various biotic and abiotic stress: Trygve Aamlid (Bioforsk, Norway), Vincent Gensollen (Geves, France)
- Selection of grasses for lawn tennis use (interaction between variety and turf management): Andy Newell (STRI, UK)
Session 4- Breeding for new roles of multifunctional forage species
- Breeding for healthy hay: Optimizing plant polyphenols in Legumes for ruminant nutrition, animal health and environmental sustainability. Irene Muller-Harvey (University of Reading, UK)
- Can genome scans be combined to environmental information to improve the use of collection of natural diversity as genetic resource for forage and turf breeding: Jean-Paul Sampoux (Inra, Lusignan, France)