20-21 January 2011, El Batan, Mexico
Participants: CIMMYT/GCP scientists, consultants, students and visitors who are in El Batan and interested in the topic; no registration fee will be charged;participants must bring their own laptops to this workshop!
Location:Sasakawa
Day 1 (Thursday, 20th January): Breeding Simulation
Coordinator: Jiankang Wang
9:00 Distribution of the workshop CD; Background of the workshop
10:30 Break
11:45 Run QU-GENE and QuLine and check results
12:30 Lunch (Sandwich provided in the meeting room)
Scott Chapman / Mark Dieters
14:30 Use of the QU-GENE GUI: Design the simulation experiments (some examples)
15:00 Break
15:30 Use of the QU-GENE GUI: Visualize the simulation results
17:30 Break
Day 2 (Friday, 21st January): QTL Mapping
Coordinator: Jiankang Wang
10:00 Interface of QTL IciMapping
10:30 Break
11:00 Use of QTL IciMapping: Build genetic linkage maps
12:30 Lunch (Sandwich provided in the meeting room)
13:30 Use of QTL IciMapping: Map QTL in biparental populations
14:30 Use of QTL IciMapping: Compare two methods by simulation
15:00 Break
15:30 Use of QTL IciMapping: Map QTL in CSSL populations
16:00 Use of QTL IciMapping: Segregation distortion mapping, QTL by E, and NAM
17:30 Adjourn
