Wednesday 5 June
Lecture 1
08:45-09:45
- Impacts of climate change on crop yields: what do we know and how do we know it?
- On how climate change (should) modify our research activities
Tamara Ben-Ari (France)
Session 2 - Diversity and adaptation (continued)
Chairs: Araceli Melendez and Doyle McKey
09:45-10:45
Oral presentations S2
- The road to sorghum domestication: evidence from nucleotide diversity and gene expression patterns
Concetta Burgarella (CIRAD, Montpellier, France) - Eggplant domestication: pervasive gene flow, feralisation and transcriptomic divergence
Mark Chapman (Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom) - Riding the riddle of almond domestication: vertebrate-mediated feralization of Prunus dulcis and the evolution of toxicity
Rafael Rubio de Casas (Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain)
10:45-11:15
Espace Philippe LamourCoffee break
11:15-13:15
Oral presentations S2
- Short-term evolution of a barley population under different agro-climatic conditions
Lorenzo Raggi (Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy) - Genetic diversity and local adaptation in traditional agrosystems
Elsa Noël (AGAP, INRA, Montpellier, France) - Farming plant cooperation for more sustainable agriculture
Germain Montazeaud (Biologie Ecologie, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France)
Oral presentations SHS
- Beyond adaptation: locating social processes in crop evolution
Steve Brush ( Human Ecology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America) - Farmer sociocultural and crop genetic diversities
Christian Leclerc (CIRAD, UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France) - Seed networks and maize perception and in the G x E x S model, a case study from Mexico
Quetzalcoatl Orozco Ramírez (Instituto de Geografía, UNAM, Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico)
13:15-14:30
Lunch
Session 3 - Mobilizing genetic resources
Chairs: Michelle Tixier Boichard and Henry Robert
14:30-15:00
Keynote S3
Managing and mobilizing crop diversity: going beyond existing binary divides
Selim Louafi (CIRAD, Montpellier, France)
15:00-16:00
Oral presentations S3
- Against the grain? A historical analysis of governance of access to plant genetic resources in Ethiopia
Teshome Hunduma Mulesa (Int. Environment & Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1432, Campus Ås, Norway) - Plant genetic resources management: a forum theatre experiment to collectively define better collaborative practices
Adeline Barnaud (DIADE, IRD, Montpellier, France) - The Jack R. Harlan Special Collection and Crop Evolution Laboratory Herbarium at the University of Illinois: Unique resources for a new generation of inquiry into the origins and evolution of cultivated plants
Chance Riggins (Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, US)
16:00-17:30
Espace Philippe LamourCoffee break - Poster Session
17:30-18:30
Oral presentations S3
- The CIRM, a network of microbial Biological Resource Centers for Agronomical research
Sophie Roussel (UMR 1253, INRA, Rennes, France) - Identification, Delineation and Conservation of Important Crop Wild Relatives Areas (ICWRAs) in Lebanon
Mohammad S. Al-Zein (Department of Biology, American University of Beirut, Riad El Solh, Beirut, Lebanon) - Towards effective networking for European (and global) in situ plant agrobiodiversity conservation
Nigel Maxted (School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom)
19:30