SORGHUM GENOMICS WORKSHOP

St. Louis, MO

9 November 2004

Tentative Agenda with Suggested Speakers:

8:00-8:30A:  Goals and objectives of the workshop
- Introductions and logistics

- Survey summary and discussion (S Kresovich)

8:30-9:15A:  Status and needs for sorghum genome map resources:
Genetic/physical/cytogenetic/mapped gene sequences/comparative map resources

- TAMU and ARS Sb genome map status (P Klein)
-  UGA and AGI Sb/Sp genome map status (A Paterson)
-  Other?  ICRISAT (T Hash), CIRAD (J Glaszmann), Australia (D Jordan), Brazil (J Magalhaes)

9:15-10:00A: Discussion of needs

10:00-10:15A: Break

10:15-11:00A:  Status and needs for databases on sorghum and related species
-  Gramene (D Ware)
-  UGA (A Gingle)

- UGA EST/microarray (MM Cordonnier Pratt)
-  TAMU (P Klein)
-  AGI (C Soderland)

11:00-11:15A: Discussion of needs

11:15A-12:00P:  Approaches and status of sorghum gene and genome sequencing
-  EST and microarray project; FL cDNA utility for annotation (L Pratt and J Mullet)
-  Methyl filtration/High Cot (J Bennetzen, A Paterson, and N Lakey)
-  BAC end sequencing; BAC skimming approaches; annotation (R Wing, R Buell, D McCombie, S

Clifton, and A Paterson)

12:00-12:15P: Discussion of needs

12:15-1:15P: Lunch

1:15-2:00P:  Status and needs for sorghum germplasm/population development/trait analysis
-  TAMU (B Rooney)
-  Kansas State (M Tuinstra)
-  Purdue (G Ejeta)
-  ARS (B Klein, J Burke, and J Erpelding)
-  International (ICRISAT, CIRAD, Australia, Brazil)

2:00-2:15P: Discussion of needs

2:15-3:00P: Rationale, support, and coordination of sorghum genomics research
-  unique aspects of sorghum that justify investment
        comments from the maize (P Schnable) and sugar cane (P Moore) genomics community
-  interest and international support for genome sequencing (various attendees)
-  connecting genomics to breeding and industry (J Dahlberg)
-  community building activities (S Kresovich)

3:00-4:00P:  Planning (break out sessions)

Groupings: Mapping/Databases/Germplasm/Sequencing

To be discussed:

- Priorities and schedules

- Assignments and contributions

- Coordination and communications

4:00-4:15P: Break

4:15-5:15P: Summaries and next actions