Event Schedule 

1st day | Thursday | September 05th

Morning

07:00 am - Registration

08:00 pm - Conference opening

Speaker: To be defined

08:40 am - Corteva Presentation

Speaker: Jason Rauscher – Corteva

08:55 am - Unraveling Complex Phenotypes: Molecular Genetics and Genomics to Predict Quantitative Traits 

Speaker: Evandro Novaes (UFLA)

10:05 am - Coffee Break

10:35 am - Next Generation of Genetically Engineered Varieties for Brazilian Agriculture 

Speaker: Juliana Erika de Carvalho Teixeira Yassitepe (Embrapa Agricultura Digital)

11:45 am - Lunch break

Afternoon

01:30 pm - Illumina Technology and Multiomics in Genetic Improvement

Speaker: Thais Nani (Illumina)

02:00 pm - Mapping Repetitive DNA Sequences in Cultivated Species Genomes Using High-Performance Bioinformatics 

Speaker: André Luís Laforga Vanzela (UEL)

03:10 pm - Coffee Break

03:40 pm - Genomics Applied to Tropical Maize Breeding 

Speaker: Thiago Lívio Pessoa de Oliveira de Souza (Limagrain Field Seeds) 

04:50 pm - Raffles

05:05 pm - End of day one

2rd day | Friday | September 06th

Morning

08:00 am - Event start

08:30 am - Deployment of genomics to accelerate genetic gains in wheat at CIMMYT

Speaker: Susanne Dreisigacker (CIMMYT)

09:40 am - Coffee Break

10:10 am - Plants Genome Sequencing Using the Latest Sequencing Technologies: PacBio and Hi-C 

Speaker: Alessandro de Mello Varani (UNESP) 

11:20 am - Raffles

11:30 am - Lunch break

Afternoon

01:30 pm - Innovations in Genotyping: Transforming Agrigenomics from End to End

Speaker: Thiago Medeiros (Thermo Fisher Scientific)

02:00 pm - Perspective of a corn breeding program in the seed industry 

Speaker: André Humberto de Brito (Corteva)

03:10 pm - Coffee Break

03:40 pm - Presentation and awards for the three best works submitted 

05:10 pm - Raffles

05:25 pm - Closing ceremony

08:00 pm - Closing cocktail

Speakers