Sharing Excellence: EiB Virtual Meeting 2020
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Speakers

Cornell, Story of Excellence on Nextgen Cassava
KALRO, Story of Excellence presenter
EiB DIrector
USAID, panelist
EiB Chair, CIP Research Director, panelist

EiB Hopin Support/Moderator

EiB NARS coordinator, Host

Module 3 lead: genotyping/sequencing
Booths

[Session Recording] Shared Services
How EiB plans to develop regional shared services to serve breeding programs around the world

Nextgen cassava: Actionable breeding targets that meet diversity and demand
Hale Ann Tufan (Cornell) on how to use customer profiles to breed crops that meet diversity and demand

[Session Recording] Plenary: Day 1 Asia/AM Africa Sessions
Join Michael Quinn, IITA, and guests for the opening session of Sharing Excellence

[Session Recording] Plenary: Day 1 Americas Sessions
Join Jan Debaene and guests for the opening session of Sharing Excellence

[Session recording] New cooking bananas for smallholder farmers in Tanzania
In this Story of Excellence, Rony Swennen describes how IITA and partners made banana breeding realistic

[Session Recording] Modernizing rice breeding for Ghana's lowlands
Towards a suitable rice variety for Ghana's irrigated and rainfed lowlands [EiB Story of Excellence]

[Session Recording] Operations and Phenotyping module breakout group
EiB's Gustavo Teixeira reviews 2020 and future plans for operations and phenotyping

[Session Recording] Product Design and Management module breakout group
Peter Coaldrake updates on product design and management progress, and services offered. Followed by Q&A

[Session Recording] Breeding scheme optimization module breakout group
Module lead Eduardo Covarrubias and team update on progress, and services offered. Followed by Q&A

[Session Recording] Bioinformatics / data module breakout group
Young Wha Lee shares update and progress, and services offered. Followed by Q&A

[Session Recording] NARS breakout group
Bish Das updates on NARS progress, plans and services. Followed by Q&A

[Session Recording] Genotyping / sequencing tools & services breakout group
Module leads Eng and Ana update on progress, and services offered. Followed by Q&A

Excellence in Breeding overview
Excellence in Breeding overview, via CIP

Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) demo
EBS team demonstrates new integrated data management system

ViTSel: A new decision support tool to facilitate selection in breeding
CIMMYT-IITA [EiB Story of Excellence]

Exploiting heterosis for major gains in clonal crops: how sweetpotato hybrids went from pipe dream to reality
International Potato Centre (CIP) [EiB Story of Excellence]

The power of BrAPPs: BrAPI-compliant tools or widgets that run independently or integrate with a larger system
Integrated Breeding Programme (IBP), LeafNode and Boyce Thompson Institute [EiB Story of Excellence]

Digitization and adoption of BMS by Kenyan (KALRO) maize and wheat breeding programs
KALRO, EiB, IBP, CIMMYT [EiB Story of Excellence]

The BrAPI project: prominent, stable, standard for plant breeding data
The BrAPI Community / Cornell University [EiB Story of Excellence]

Marker design in a polyploid crop, yams
IITA; University of Illinois; Cornell University; CIMMYT-EiB [EiB Story of Excellence]