ISTRC 18th Triennial Symposium: Full Schedule

When, Where and How will Tropical Root and Tuber Crops Lead the Next Agri-Food Revolution

Applications for oral/poster presentations and pre-registration are now closed.

7:30am GMT-05

Registration

Monday October 22, 2018 7:30am - 8:30am GMT-05
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - Area located outside Kellog Auditorium Recta Cali – Palmira, Km 17 Cali, Colombia - Area located outside Kellog Auditorium

REGISTRATION

8:30am GMT-05

Inauguration – Opening Ceremony and Keynote Address

Monday October 22, 2018 8:30am - 9:30am GMT-05
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - KELLOG AUDITORIUM Recta Cali – Palmira, Km 17 Cali, Colombia

Inauguration – Opening Ceremony

9:30am GMT-05

Group Photo

Monday October 22, 2018 9:30am - 10:00am GMT-05
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - Area located outside Kellog Auditorium Recta Cali – Palmira, Km 17 Cali, Colombia - Area located outside Kellog Auditorium

GROUP PHOTO

10:00am GMT-05

SCALING: scientific innovations that have impact on root and tuber crop systems and those who depend on them.

Chairs, Co-Chairs and Speakers

Francis Alacho

Country Manager, Africa Innovations Institute

Oriaku, L. C

Research Officer, National Root Crops Research Institute

Satish Chandra

Councilor, ISTRC

ISTRC Councillor for the South PacificAdjunct Professor of Agriculture, University of the South Pacific

Chimaroke

Research officer, National Root Crop Reaserch institute umudike

Nanam Tay Dziedzoave

FORMER DIRECTOR, CSIR-FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Nozomi Kawarazuka

Associate Scientist Gender Research, Asia Research, International Potato Center, CIP - Vietnam

We are developing an economically sustainable, integrated seed system for cassava in Nigeria. Partnership with private sector, public sector and like minded projects is key to shared success. I will be happy to talk anyone interested in inclusive and sustainable development in Ni... Read More →

Benjamin Chukwuemeka Okoye

Research Scientist, NATIONAL ROOT CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE UMUDIKE

Research includes addressing the Economic problems of Root and tuber Crops Production, Marketing, Processing and Utilization. Research program spans issues on food security, production economics, farm management, agricultural marketing, gender productivity and efficiency, environmental... Read More →

Vito Severiano Sandifolo

Country Manager, CAVA Malawi

Marc Schut

Senior Scientist, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

Andrew Westby

Director, University of Greenwich

Monday October 22, 2018 10:00am - 12:00pm GMT-05
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - KELLOG AUDITORIUM Recta Cali – Palmira, Km 17 Cali, Colombia

Main Session

12:00pm GMT-05

Lunch in the CIAT's Arches

Monday October 22, 2018 12:00pm - 1:00pm GMT-05
CIAT's Arches International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - CIAT's Arches area

Lunch

1:00pm GMT-05

Meeting on the Scaling morning session for general discussions and/or more poster-oral presentations

Chairs, Co-Chairs and Speakers

Marc Schut

Senior Scientist, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

Andrew Westby

Director, University of Greenwich

Monday October 22, 2018 1:00pm - 3:00pm GMT-05
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - KELLOG AUDITORIUM Recta Cali – Palmira, Km 17 Cali, Colombia

Second Session

2:00pm GMT-05

Cassava Program's FIELD Visits

Limited Capacity seats available

During this Cassava Program's FIELD visit you can come and see :

Cassava breeding fields and red light district for induced flowering
Phenotyping demonstration (drones, sensors and ground penetrating radar)
Root and Starch Quality. Post-harvest processing
Seed system and rapid multiplication approaches

Monday October 22, 2018 2:00pm - 5:00pm GMT-05
Located outside Kellogg Auditorium CIAT's area outside the Kellogg Auditorium

Cassava Program Labs and Field visits

2:00pm GMT-05

Cassava Program's LABS visit

Limited Capacity seats available

During this visit to the Cassava Program's LABS you will see:

Germplasm bank and Invitro conservation
Tissue Culture Cassava Genetics
Advance Breeding Platform
Cassava Genetics
Crop Protection

Monday October 22, 2018 2:00pm - 5:00pm GMT-05
Located outside Kellogg Auditorium CIAT's area outside the Kellogg Auditorium

Cassava Program Labs and Field visits

3:30pm GMT-05

Afternoon Coffee Break

Monday October 22, 2018 3:30pm - 4:00pm GMT-05
Located outside Kellogg Auditorium CIAT's area outside the Kellogg Auditorium

Coffee Breaks

4:00pm GMT-05

ISTRC Councilors meeting (closed event)

ISTRC councillors (presenting Africa, Asia, Pacific, Americas, Europe and the Caribbean) come together to discuss ISTRC business.

Monday October 22, 2018 4:00pm - 5:00pm GMT-05
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - TROPICO ROOM Recta Cali – Palmira, Km 17 Cali, Colombia - CIAT - Conferences Area

Closed event

5:00pm GMT-05

Welcome Cocktail

A welcome cocktail will be offered for all ISTRC's participants during the first day of the meeting (Monday October 22) from 5:00 to 7:00pm. This is a good opportunity for attendees to get together and to start interchanging ideas and concepts.

The cocktail is including a salsa Caleña dancing show.

Transportation to the hotels in Cali will be provided from the CIAT’s main reception starting 7:00pm.

Monday October 22, 2018 5:00pm - 7:00pm GMT-05
CIAT's Arches International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - CIAT's Arches area

18TH ISTRC Welcome cocktail

7:00pm GMT-05

Departure by bus from CIAT's main reception area

Those staying in Cali should walk to CIAT's main reception in order to take the bus to go to Cali. Please be on time. Bus will leave at 6:00pm

Monday October 22, 2018 7:00pm - 7:30pm GMT-05
CIAT's main reception area

Bus Departure to Cali

8:00am GMT-05

DISCOVERY: How to sustain genetic gains in root and tuber crops: Is Next-Generation breeding approaches our next bet (breeding, genetics, cytogenetics, gene editing, genetic mapping, molecular techniques etc.)

Chairs, Co-Chairs and Speakers

Ranjana Bhattacharjee

Molecular Geneticist, BioScience, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA

Adriana Bohorquez

Ph.D, International Center for Tropical Agriculture, CIAT

Hernán Ceballos

Cassava Breeder, CIAT

B.S. in Agronomy from National University of Córdoba (Argentina) and Ph.D. in Plant Breeding from Cornell University. Field breeding experiences for seven years in Maize (CIMMYT) and about 20 years in Cassava (CIAT). Taught Quantitative Genetics at National University of Colombia... Read More →

Luis Duque

Assistant Research Professor, Penn State University

Chiedozie Egesi

Project Director, International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, IITA

Pim Lindhout

Head of R&D, Solynta

Conversion of potato into hybrid breeding cropSolynta has developed a revolutionary breakthrough by establishing a diploid potato capable of inbreeding, thereby allowing the much faster development of new hybrid cultivars that are propagated by clean seeds. Good performing inbred... Read More →

Jessica Lyons

Partnerships and Translation Manager, Innovative Genomics Institute

Tuesday October 23, 2018 8:00am - 10:00am GMT-05
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - KELLOG AUDITORIUM Recta Cali – Palmira, Km 17 Cali, Colombia

Main Session

10:00am GMT-05

Coffee Break + RTBs CULINARY DEMONSTRATION

Nozomi and Graham are chefs specialized in roots, tubers and bananas. We will serve sweet potato dishes. Please join us!
Related Youtube link here:https://youtu.be/Zk5wM-TOCY4

Chairs, Co-Chairs and Speakers

Nozomi Kawarazuka

Associate Scientist Gender Research, Asia Research, International Potato Center, CIP - Vietnam

Graham Thiele

Program Director, CPR RTB Program, International Potato Center - RTB

Tuesday October 23, 2018 10:00am - 10:30am GMT-05
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - Area located outside Kellog Auditorium Recta Cali – Palmira, Km 17 Cali, Colombia - Area located outside Kellog Auditorium

Coffee Breaks

10:30am GMT-05

COME CLEAN go CLEAN: Are we declaring war to pest and diseases: How epidemiology, pest and disease management, molecular diagnostics, and disease monitoring will shield our crops.

Chairs, Co-Chairs and Speakers

Prempeh Ruth Naa Ashiokai

RESEARCH SCIENTIST, CSIR - CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Cassava Breeder/Biotechnologist

Martha Giraldo

Associate professor, University of Puerto Rico

I work for the University of Puerto Rico, Agriculture Experiment Station (AES) were we maintain root crop collections consist of different accessions from yams (Dioscorea spp.), cassava (Manihot esculenta), sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) and tanier (Xanthosoma sagittifolium), these... Read More →

Maruthi Gowda

Professor of Molecular Plant Pathology, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich

The ISTRC is the only global forum for all tropical root and tuber crops and has been serving the root and tuber crops global community since 1967. Root and tuber crops are becoming increasingly important with respect to contributing to rural and urban livelihoods, food security... Read More →

Jenyfer Jimenez

Research assistant, International Center for Tropical Agriculture, CIAT

Jan Kreuze

Head Crop and System Sciences Division, International Potato Center

James Legg

Scientist, IITA

INNOCENT Nwankwo

Research Officer, Root rops Research Institute

Julian Smith

International Partnerships, Fera Science Ltd

Mathias Tembo

Senior Agricultural Research Officer, Zambia Agriculture Research Institute, Mount Makulu Research Station

I am Agronomist in Plant Protection with a bias towards plant diseases

Eugene Terry

ATECHO and Associates

Root Crops Pathologist - Virus diseases of Cassava, Sweet Potatoes and Yams

Tuesday October 23, 2018 10:30am - 12:30pm GMT-05
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - KELLOG AUDITORIUM Recta Cali – Palmira, Km 17 Cali, Colombia

Main Session

12:30pm GMT-05

Lunch in the CIAT's Arches

Tuesday October 23, 2018 12:30pm - 1:30pm GMT-05
CIAT's Arches International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - CIAT's Arches area

Lunch

2:00pm GMT-05

General discussion on COME CLEAN go CLEAN session and/or more oral presentations

Limited Capacity seats available

Chairs, Co-Chairs and Speakers

James Legg

Scientist, IITA

Eugene Terry

ATECHO and Associates

Root Crops Pathologist - Virus diseases of Cassava, Sweet Potatoes and Yams

Tuesday October 23, 2018 2:00pm - 4:00pm GMT-05
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - LATINO AMÉRICA Y CARIBE ROOM Recta Cali – Palmira, Km 17 Cali, Colombia - CIAT Conferences area

Second Session

2:00pm GMT-05

General discussion on DISCOVERY and more oral presentations

Limited Capacity full

General discussions and questions & answers

Chairs, Co-Chairs and Speakers

Ranjana Bhattacharjee

Molecular Geneticist, BioScience, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA

Hernán Ceballos

Cassava Breeder, CIAT

Chiedozie Egesi

Project Director, International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, IITA

Pim Lindhout

Head of R&D, Solynta

Tuesday October 23, 2018 2:00pm - 4:00pm GMT-05
COLOMBIA ROOM International Center for Tropical Agriculture

Second Session

3:30pm GMT-05

Afternoon Coffee Break + SP LIQUOR TASTING

Sweet potato liquor from Japan and cassava liquor from Cambodia will be served to participants. Sweet potato liquor has three types: red, white and black. You will see differences in aroma, flavour and sweetness. Please join us!

Chairs, Co-Chairs and Speakers

Nozomi Kawarazuka

Associate Scientist Gender Research, Asia Research, International Potato Center, CIP - Vietnam

Graham Thiele

Program Director, CPR RTB Program, International Potato Center - RTB

Tuesday October 23, 2018 3:30pm - 4:00pm GMT-05
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - Area located outside Kellog Auditorium Recta Cali – Palmira, Km 17 Cali, Colombia - Area located outside Kellog Auditorium

Coffee Breaks

4:00pm GMT-05

Poster Session

Tuesday October 23, 2018 4:00pm - 5:30pm GMT-05
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - Area located outside Kellog Auditorium Recta Cali – Palmira, Km 17 Cali, Colombia - Area located outside Kellog Auditorium

Poster Sessions

6:00pm GMT-05

Departure by bus from CIAT's Arches

Tuesday October 23, 2018 6:00pm - 6:15pm GMT-05
CIAT's Arches International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - CIAT's Arches area

Bus Departure to Cali

8:00am GMT-05

SEEDs or NO SEEDS: What is the dilemma? How to create root and tuber seed systems.

Chairs, Co-Chairs and Speakers

Beatrice Aighewi

Researcher, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA

Jorge Andrade-Piedra

Plant pathologist, International Potato Center

Jorge is a plant pathologist at the International Potato Center (CIP) and the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers, and Bananas (RTB). He specializes in potato seed systems and late blight epidemiology. Jorge holds a PhD in Plant Pathology from Cornell University in New York.

Chimaroke

Research officer, National Root Crop Reaserch institute umudike

Elohor Mercy Diebiru-Ojo

Asst Specialist Cassava Seed Systems, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA

Karen A. Garrett

Professor, CIP / University of Florida

Food systems, plant pathology, networks, seed systems, statistics, R packages, scenario analysis

Lava Kumar

Head, Germplasm Health & Virology, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lava_Kumar2

Norbert Maroya

Project Leader, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA

Hemant Nitturkar

Project Director, CIP

Srinivasulu Rajendran

Agricultural Economist, International Potato Center, CIP

Francisco Saborio

Researcher, Universidad de Costa Rica

Cocoyam and Taro breeder, research on root rot disease of cocoyam, interest in collaborating research on cocoyam and taro.

Wednesday October 24, 2018 8:00am - 10:00am GMT-05
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - KELLOG AUDITORIUM Recta Cali – Palmira, Km 17 Cali, Colombia

Main Session

10:00am GMT-05

Coffee Break

Wednesday October 24, 2018 10:00am - 10:30am GMT-05
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - Area located outside Kellog Auditorium Recta Cali – Palmira, Km 17 Cali, Colombia - Area located outside Kellog Auditorium

Coffee Breaks

10:30am GMT-05

BIOFORTIFICATION: Are we solving malnutrition? How to improve nutrition and health through roots and tuber biofortification.

Chairs, Co-Chairs and Speakers

Daniel Alvarez

Food Science and Nutrition Researcher, HarvestPlus

I'm a scientist with a great interest in International Development, working at HarvestPlus based at CIAT for biofortification, a strategy which improves the nutritional value of staple crops to defeat malnutrition.

Meike Andersson

Senior Researcher Crop Development, HarvestPlus

Maria Andrade

Senior Sweetpotato Breeder for SSA & Asia, International Potato Center (CIP)

Chiedozie Egesi

Project Director, International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, IITA

Thomas zum Felde

Researcher, International Potato Center (CIP)

Apollin Fotso

Visiting Scientist, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA

Entomologist by Training, looking at the interaction between Cassava genotypes and pests and diseases

Frederick Grant

Country Manager (Tanzania) and Scientist, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA

Paul Ilona

Country Manager, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA

Isata Kamanda

Cassava Breeder Biotechnologist, Njala Agricultural Research Center

Isata kamanda a cassava breeder and biotechnologist responsible for the development , advancement and deployment of biofortified cassava with farmers preferred traits to communities whose consumption heavily relies on cassava as a major staple.

Jan Low

Principal Scientist, International Potato Center (CIP)

Jan Low is a principal scientist with the International Potato Center (CIP), based in Nairobi, Kenya. During the past decade, she managed the Sweetpotato Action for Security and Health in Africa (SASHA) research project and co-led the Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative... Read More →

Alexandre Mello

Researcher, Embrapa Vegetables

Tawanda Muzhingi

Regional Food Scientist, International Potato Center (CIP)

Damien Njoku

Research Scientist, National Root Crops Research Institute Umudike

Elizabeth Parks

Breeder, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA

Matilda Steiner-Asiedu

Professor, UNIVERSITY OF GHANA

Wednesday October 24, 2018 10:30am - 12:30pm GMT-05
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - KELLOG AUDITORIUM Recta Cali – Palmira, Km 17 Cali, Colombia

Main Session

12:30pm GMT-05

Lunch in the CIAT's Arches

Wednesday October 24, 2018 12:30pm - 1:30pm GMT-05
CIAT's Arches International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - CIAT's Arches area

Lunch

2:00pm GMT-05

Poster Session

Wednesday October 24, 2018 2:00pm - 4:00pm GMT-05
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - Area located outside Kellog Auditorium Recta Cali – Palmira, Km 17 Cali, Colombia - Area located outside Kellog Auditorium

Poster Sessions

3:00pm GMT-05

ISTRC General Meeting (Open event - all people to attend)

This is usually quite a lively event. This is your chance to have a say in the future of the global root and tuber crops community. All people attending the symposium automatically become members. We need everyone to attend. At this event you will:
- hear reports from ISTRC Councillors representing the main regions of the world for root and tuber crops (Africa, Caribbean, Pacific, Asia, Europe/North America and South America)
- discuss equity in the ISTRC (gender, age, race, disability etc)
- vote to elect the new ISTRC Council (President, Second Vice-President, Secretary/Treasurer and Councillor for Publications)
- Nominations for the location and venue of the ISTRC Symposium in 2021
- raise any issues

Wednesday October 24, 2018 3:00pm - 5:00pm GMT-05
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - KELLOG AUDITORIUM Recta Cali – Palmira, Km 17 Cali, Colombia

Main Session

5:00pm GMT-05

How to foster more demand driven research and innovations in RTB crops?

Limited Capacity full

A session at the ISTRC Symposium is proposed for all stakeholders in RTB value chains to share the research questions that are hampering their work. A Research Questions Bank (RQB) can come out that then becomes a live resource for all stakeholders to benefit from. Researchers get to know what practical problems are being faced by the development project implementors and collaborators who are taking their research output to the masses – both, smallholder farmers and the consumers. University students, early career researchers and their guides will find the RQB a rich resource as they plan their research projects. Targeted research will provide the needed answers for the development delivery-oriented project members, enhancing their ability to create impactful, sustainable changes on the ground. This win-win-win exercise can take us all closer to our shared mission of the Next Agri-Food Revolution. RTB research will become more demand driven, more justifiable to the donor community and more useful to all.

A panel discussion on “How to foster more demand driven research and innovations in RTB crops?” is being organised during the 18th ISTRC Symposium in Cali, Columbia. Researchers, students, development project leads, NGOs, university faculty members, policy makers and thinkers are invited to build this mutually beneficial feedback loop that has the potential to benefit the entire value chain.

Chairs, Co-Chairs and Speakers

Hemant Nitturkar

Project Director, CIP

Wednesday October 24, 2018 5:00pm - 6:00pm GMT-05
ASIA ROOM International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Second Session

5:00pm GMT-05

Seeds no Seeds / Biofortification morning sessions' general discussions

Limited Capacity seats available

Chairs, Co-Chairs and Speakers

Meike Andersson

Senior Researcher Crop Development, HarvestPlus

Jorge Andrade-Piedra

Plant pathologist, International Potato Center

Lava Kumar

Head, Germplasm Health & Virology, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lava_Kumar2

Jan Low

Principal Scientist, International Potato Center (CIP)

Wednesday October 24, 2018 5:00pm - 6:00pm GMT-05
COLOMBIA ROOM International Center for Tropical Agriculture

Second Session

6:00pm GMT-05

DINNER - NETWORKING EVENT

Wednesday October 24, 2018 6:00pm - 8:00pm GMT-05
CIAT's Arches International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - CIAT's Arches area

Dinner - Networking Event

8:00pm GMT-05

Departure by bus from CIAT's Arches

Wednesday October 24, 2018 8:00pm - 8:15pm GMT-05
CIAT's Arches International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - CIAT's Arches area

Bus Departure to Cali

8:00am GMT-05

QUALITY FOODs: Postharvest loss prevention, storage and processing.

Chairs, Co-Chairs and Speakers

Dominique Dufour

Researcher, CIRAD Qualisud

PhD, Researcher in Food Science & Food Engineering, CIRAD (French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development, Montpellier, France). For over 30 years he has specialized in adding value to cassava, sweet potato, yam, cocoyam, taro, plantain, and minor RTB crops in Latin... Read More →

Lateef Sanni

Professor, Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta

Thursday October 25, 2018 8:00am - 10:00am GMT-05
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - KELLOG AUDITORIUM Recta Cali – Palmira, Km 17 Cali, Colombia

Main Session

10:00am GMT-05

Coffee Break

Thursday October 25, 2018 10:00am - 10:30am GMT-05
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - Area located outside Kellog Auditorium Recta Cali – Palmira, Km 17 Cali, Colombia - Area located outside Kellog Auditorium

Coffee Breaks

10:00am GMT-05

Poster Session

Poster Sessions

10:30am GMT-05

Building the DATA REVOLUTION in Tropical Root Crops

Introduction:
Building communities and architectures for the data revolution
Brian King (CIAT/Big Data Platform) - <10 Minutes

Toward a unified architecture vision for crop breeding* Tom
Hagen (CIMMYT/Excellence in Breeding) <20 Minutes

"Smart Agronomy Data Management. Experiences from the African Cassava Agronomy initiative”
Stefan Hauser ( IITA) <20 Minutes

Building an image analysis pipeline-as-a-service for breeding decisions
Michael Selvaraj ( CIAT ) <15 Minutes

Standardizing Data Collection from Agronomy Trials via the Agronomy Field Information Management System (AgroFIMS)
Medha Devare( IFPRI/Big Data Platform)/ Marie Angelique LaPorte (Bioversity) <20 Minutes

Breeding informatics solutions for the RTB Crops* Lukas Mueller (Cornell University) <20 Minutes
Q&A
Daniel Jimenez (CIAT)

From 3-5 PM the same day, time as been set aside for two “deeper-dive” demonstrations of informatics tools bridging breeding and agronomy use-cases, from Medha and Lukas.

Participants will be urged to attend these demos, hopefully equipped with some new insights into the architectures for building the data revolution in tropical root crops.

Chairs, Co-Chairs and Speakers

Medha Devare

Module Lead, Big Data Platform, CGIAR

Stefan Hauser

Root & Tuber Systems Agronomist, Agronomy, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA

Daniel R. Jiménez

Scientist, CIAT

Daniel Jiménez is an award-winning scientist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). A pioneer of using artificial intelligence techniques for agricultural research in developing countries, he coordinates the Data-Driven Agronomy Community of Practice of the... Read More →

HAGEN, Thomas John

Brian King

Big Data Platform Coordinator, CGIAR

Lukas Mueller

Professor, Boyce Thompson Institute

Michael Gomez Selvaraj

Leader CIAT phenomics platform, CIAT

Dr. Michael Gomez Selvaraj is Crop Physiologist leading CIAT Phenomics Platform. His interest mainly focuses on applying remote sensing tools/ technologies on field based Plant Phenomics and to identify the target traits to improve water and N use efficiency to enhance smallholder... Read More →

Isaak Yosief Tecle

Bioinformatics Researcher, Cornell University

Thursday October 25, 2018 10:30am - 12:30pm GMT-05
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - KELLOG AUDITORIUM Recta Cali – Palmira, Km 17 Cali, Colombia

Main Session

12:30pm GMT-05

Lunch in the CIAT's Arches

Thursday October 25, 2018 12:30pm - 2:00pm GMT-05
CIAT's Arches International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - CIAT's Arches area

Lunch

2:00pm GMT-05

CGIAR Research Program on Roots Tubers and Bananas partnership platform: progress and prospects

Thursday October 25, 2018 2:00pm - 3:00pm GMT-05
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - TROPICO ROOM Recta Cali – Palmira, Km 17 Cali, Colombia - CIAT - Conferences Area

Main Session

3:00pm GMT-05

Coffee Break

Thursday October 25, 2018 3:00pm - 3:15pm GMT-05
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - Area located outside Kellog Auditorium Recta Cali – Palmira, Km 17 Cali, Colombia - Area located outside Kellog Auditorium

Coffee Breaks

3:00pm GMT-05

Demos of AgroFIMS and the Cassava base systems/examples

Limited Capacity full

Attendees can come and interact with the systems and provide user feedback to the developers.

Chairs, Co-Chairs and Speakers

Daniel R. Jiménez

Scientist, CIAT

Brian King

Big Data Platform Coordinator, CGIAR

Thursday October 25, 2018 3:00pm - 5:00pm GMT-05
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - AFRICA ROOM Recta Cali – Palmira, Km 17 Cali, Colombia - CIAT Conferences area

Second Session

3:00pm GMT-05

QUALITY FOODs' morning session general discussions and/or questions & answers

Limited Capacity seats available

General discussions or questions & answers on the Quality Foods's morning session

Chairs, Co-Chairs and Speakers

Dominique Dufour

Researcher, CIRAD Qualisud

Lateef Sanni

Professor, Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta

Thursday October 25, 2018 3:00pm - 5:00pm GMT-05
ASIA ROOM International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Second Session, addnew

3:15pm GMT-05

Cassava Program's FIELD Visits

Limited Capacity seats available

During this Cassava Program's FIELD visit you can come and see :

Cassava breeding fields and red light district for induced flowering
Phenotyping demonstration
Root Quality and Post-harvest processing
Seed System fields

Thursday October 25, 2018 3:15pm - 5:00pm GMT-05
Located outside Kellogg Auditorium CIAT's area outside the Kellogg Auditorium

Cassava Program Labs and Field visits

3:15pm GMT-05

Cassava Program's LABS visit

Limited Capacity seats available

During this visit to the Cassava Program's LABS you will see:

Germplasm bank and Invitro conservation
Tissue Culture Cassava Genetics
Advance Breeding Platform
Cassava Genetics
Crop Protection

Thursday October 25, 2018 3:15pm - 5:00pm GMT-05
Located outside Kellogg Auditorium CIAT's area outside the Kellogg Auditorium

Cassava Program Labs and Field visits

5:00pm GMT-05

Closing Ceremony and Awarding of Prizes

Thursday October 25, 2018 5:00pm - 6:30pm GMT-05
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - Area located outside Kellog Auditorium Recta Cali – Palmira, Km 17 Cali, Colombia - Area located outside Kellog Auditorium

Closing Ceremony - Awards

7:00pm GMT-05

Departure by bus from CIAT's Arches

Thursday October 25, 2018 7:00pm - 7:30pm GMT-05
CIAT's Arches International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - CIAT's Arches area

Bus Departure to Cali