2022 Agenda
Saturday, April 2, 2022
2:00 – 6:00 PM
Lobby
AGBT Meeting and Pre-Conference Registration
Sunday, April 3, 2022
Pre-Conference
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Bay Pavilion
7:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Atrium and Commodore Foyer
AGBT Meeting Registration
Monday, April 4, 2022
Scientific Program
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Atrium and Commodore Foyer
Meeting Registration / Hospitality Desk
7:30 – 9:00 AM
Bay Terrace
Breakfast
9:00 – 9:10 AM
Commodore Ballroom
Opening Remarks
Sarah Hearne, Principal Scientist, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and AGBT Ag Conference Chair
Commodore Ballroom
Agriculture Needs and Opportunities in the 21st Century, Session I
Susan McCouch, Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Session Chair
9:10 – 9:40 AM
Segenet Kelemu
Director General & CEO of the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe)
“Innovations in agricultural research for development”
9:40 – 10:10 AM
Carol Ibe
Researcher in crop genetics and pathology, John Innes Centre (UK) and Founding Director of JR Biotek Foundation (USA)
“Beyond subsistence agriculture: unlocking Africa’s potential to feed the world”
10:10 – 10:30 AM
John McKay (Abstract Selected)
Colorado State University
“Identification of genetic mechanisms to redesign crop production systems for sustainability”
10:30 – 11:00 AM
Constellation Ballroom and Sponsor’s Promenade
Coffee Break
Commodore Ballroom
Agriculture Needs and Opportunities in the 21st Century, Session II
Susan Wessler, Distinguished Professor of Genetics, University of California, Riverside, Session Chair
11:00 – 11:30 AM
Edward Buckler
USDA-ARS Research Geneticist and adjunct professor in Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University
“Tackling maize’s contributions to climate change by learning from all plant genomic diversity”
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Panel: The Grand Challenges, Ag Needs and Opportunities
Moderator:
Susan Wessler, Distinguished Professor of Genetics, University of California, Riverside
Panelists:
Sarah Hearne, Principal Scientist, International Maize, and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and AGBT Ag Conference Chair
Jack Dekkers, Distinguished Professor, section leader of animal breeding and genetics, Iowa State University
Appolinaire Djikeng, Director, Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health, The University of Edinburgh
Renee Lafitte, Deputy Director for Crops R&D, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
12:00 – 1:30 PM
Bay Terrace
AGBT Lunch
Commodore Ballroom
Plant Genomics and Breeding, Session III
Bruce Walsh, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Chair
1:30 – 2:00 PM
Nils Stein
Group leader at Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), and Professor of Genomics of plant Genetic Resources at Georg-August University
“Small grains “personal genomics” – needs and feasibility for future crop improvement”
2:00 – 2:30 PM
Susan Wessler
Distinguished Professor of Genetics, University of California, Riverside
“Transposable element-mediated structural variation: from McClintock to Pan-genomes”
2:30 – 2:50 PM
Sally Mackenzie (Abstract Selected)
Pennsylvania State University
“Decoding phenotypic plasticity as an epigenetically programmed response in plants”
2:50 – 3:20 PM
Constellation Ballroom and Sponsor’s Promenade
Coffee Break
3:20 – 4:20 PM
Commodore Ballroom
Gold Sponsor Workshop – Thermo Fisher Scientific
Jason Santos, Ravi Ramadhar, Dr. Manish K Pandey, Krishna Reddy Gujjula, Ali Pirani
“Powering genetics and genotyping – enabling better agriculture”
Commodore Ballroom
Enabling Approaches and Tech, Session IV
Len Pennacchio, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Session Chair
4:20 – 4:40 PM
Lyndsey Aguirre (Abstract Selected)
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
“Uncovering quantitative epistasis in tomato stem cell control”
4:40 – 5:00 PM
Katharine Jenike (Abstract Selected)
Johns Hopkins University
“HetTrek: improving assembly accuracy and contiguity of highly heterozygous genomes”
5:00 – 5:20 PM
Bart Nijland (Abstract Selected)
Genetwister
“Graph-based pangenome analysis of a haplotype-resolved genome assembly”
5:20 – 5:50 PM
Silver 1 Sponsor Workshop – PerkinElmer
Charles D. Johnson, Ph.D., Texas A&M AgriLife Research
“A low cost solution for fast and accurate high-throughput genotyping”
6:00 – 8:00 PM
Marina Terrace
AGBT Welcome Dinner
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
6:30 – 7:30 AM
Meet in Lobby
Rise & Shine with AGBT – Optional Activity
7:30 – 9:00 AM
Bay Terrace
Breakfast
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Atrium and Commodore Foyer
Hospitality Desk
Commodore Ballroom
Animal Ag Genomics, Session V
Jack Dekkers, Distinguished Professor, section leader of animal breeding and genetics, Iowa State University, Session Chair
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Commodore Ballroom
Alison Van Eenennaam
Cooperative Extension Specialist, Animal Genomics and Biotechnology, University of California, Davis
“Functional analysis and characterization of the hornless phenotype in cattle”
9:30 – 9:50 AM
Jean Noel Hubert (Abstract Selected)
National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE)
“Identification of parental allele-specific methylation in pigs through targeted sequence DNA methylation enrichment methods”
9:50 – 10:10 AM
Troy Rowan (Abstract Selected)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“Detecting historic and ongoing selection in beef cattle populations”
10:10 – 10:30 AM
Jeremiah Minich (Abstract Selected)
Salk Institute
“Fish microbiomes 101: disentangling the rules governing marine fish mucosal microbiomes across 101 species and its implications for probiotic discovery in aquaculture”
10:30 – 11:00 AM
Constellation Ballroom and Sponsor’s Promenade
Coffee Break
Commodore Ballroom
Informatics and Analytics Session VI
Nathan Lakey, Orion Genomics, Session Chair
11:00 – 11:30 AM
Daniele Lourenco
Associate Professor in Animal Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics, University of Georgia
“Leveraging genomics to reshape animal improvement”
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Adam Phillippy
Senior investigator and head of the Genome Informatics Section, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
“Complete, telomere-to-telomere assembly of vertebrate genomes”
12:00 – 1:30 PM
Bay Terrace
AGBT Lunch
Commodore Ballroom
Data Science, Session VII
Fred Van Eeuwijk, Professor in applied statistics, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, Session Chair
Poster Flash Talks
1:50 – 2:10 PM
Yana Safonova (Abstract Selected)
University of California, San Diego
“Revealing how variations in cattle antibody repertoires correlate with responses to bovine respiratory disease vaccine”
2:10 – 2:30 PM
Tianjing Zhao (Abstract Selected)
Department of Animal Science, University of California Davis
“Extend mixed models to multi-layer neural networks for genomic prediction including intermediate omics data”
2:30 – 2:50 PM
Brenda Murdoch (Abstract Selected)
University of Idaho
“The functional annotation of the ovine reference genome”
2:50 – 4:20 PM
Exhibit Hall & Sponsor Promenade / Avalon
Poster Session A and Ice Cream Social
Commodore Ballroom
Leveraging Genome Complexity Session VIII
Charlie Johnson, Executive Director Genomics & Bioinformatics, Texas A&M AgriLife, Session Chair
4:20 – 4:40 PM
Marce Lorenzen (Abstract Selected)
North Carolina State University (NCSU)
“Lessons learned while developing genomic resources and tools for a hemipteran pest of maize”
4:40 – 5:00 PM
Genevieve Hoopes (Abstract Selected)
J.R. Simplot Company
“Phased, chromosome-scale genome assemblies of tetraploid potato reveal a complex genome, transcriptome, and predicted proteome landscape underpinning genetic diversity”
5:00 – 5:30 PM
Silver 2 Sponsor Workshop – PacBio
Jeremy Schmutz
“PacBio plant genomics: an entire world of possibilities”
5:30 – 5:45 PM
AGBT’s Next Gen Leadership Awards
6:00 – 7:30 PM
Marina Terrace
Dinner
7:30 PM – ???
Constellation Ballroom and Sponsor’s Promenade
Click2Win Party
Engage with sponsors and exhibitors to win great prizes including free registration to next year’s AGBT Ag
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
6:30 – 7:30 AM
Meet in Lobby
Rise and Shine with AGBT – Optional Activity
7:30 – 9:00 AM
Bay Terrace
Breakfast
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Atrium and Commodore Foyer
Hospitality Desk
Commodore Ballroom
Building From Basic Science, Session IX
Appolinaire Djikeng, Director, Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health, The University of Edinburgh, Session Chair
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Joanne Chory
Howard Hughes Medical Investigator (HHMI), professor and director of the plant Biology Laboratory, Co-director of the Harnessing Plants Initiative at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies
“Resilience and adaptation of plants to climate extremes”
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Zach Lippman
Professor of Plant Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator
“Dynamic evolution of gene duplications and their interactions in shaping natural and engineered trait variation”
10:00 – 10:20 AM
Michael Schatz (Abstract Selected)
Johns Hopkins University
“Dissecting the dynamic evolution of paralogs in shaping trait variation across the Solanum pan-genome”
10:20 – 10:40 AM
Poster Flash Talks
10:40 AM – 12:10 PM
Exhibit Hall & Sponsor Promenade / Avalon
Poster Session B with Coffee and Snacks
12:10 – 1:30 PM
Bay Terrace
AGBT Lunch
Commodore Ballroom
Adaptation & Evolution, Session X
Alison Van Eenennaam, Cooperative Extension Specialist, Animal Genomics and Biotechnology, University of California, Davis, Session Chair
1:30 – 2:00 PM
Julia Bailey-Serres
Professor of Genetics and Director of the Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside
“At the root of cellular responses to water extremes”
2:00 – 2:30 PM
Jeff Ross-Ibarra
Professor, College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis
“Ancient admixture from teosinte highlights the role of diversity from wild relatives to adaptation in maize.”
2:30 – 2:50 PM
Commodore Foyer
Coffee Break
Commodore Ballroom
Environment and Late Breaking, Session XI
Catherine Potenski, Chief Editor, Nature Genetics, Session Chair
2:50 – 3:10 PM
David Jackson (Abstract Selected)
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
“Validation of maize ear and root single cell data by spatial transcriptomics using Molecular Cartography”
3:10 – 3:30 PM
Patrizia Ricca (Abstract Selected)
Computomics
“Higher-order machine learning models act as an approximation of biological regulatory mechanisms”
3:30 – 3:50 PM
Sergey Koren (Abstract Selected)
National Institutes of Health
“So, you think you finished a genome?”
3:50 – 4:10 PM
Bronze 1 Sponsor Talk – Corteva
Gina Zastrow-Hayes and Heather Snowgren
Corteva Agriscience Innovation, Bringing the Outside In
4:10 – 4:30 PM
Bronze 2 Sponsor Talk – Gencove
Jesse Hoff, Ph.D.
“Lighting the path to routine sequencing for genomic evaluation”
Commodore Ballroom
Panel: Communicating Your Science, Meet the Editors
Renee Lafitte, Deputy Director for Crops R&D, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Moderator
4:30 – 5:15 PM
Commodore Ballroom
Panel
Panel Members:
Chanfu An – Senior Editor of Nature Communications
Nonia Pariente, PhD- Editor-in-Chief, PLOS Biology
Christopher Surridge, Chief Editor, Nature plants, Nature Research
Hillary Sussman-Executive Director, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Michelle Trenkmann, Senior Editor, Nature
5:15 – 5:30 PM
Closing Comments
Sarah Hearne, Principal Scientist, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and AGBT Ag Conference Chair
6:00 – 10:00 PM
Marina Terrace
