INTEGRAPE 2019
Data Integration as a key step for future grapevine research
Meeting was held from March 25th to March 28th, 2019 at the Conference Center of Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Crete, Greece. https://confer.maich.gr/.
PARTICIPATION STATISTICS
88 participants attended the First Annual Meeting in Crete representing 23 countries.
COST ACTION CA17111 Integrape was able to reimburse the expenses of over 50% of those attending
Programme
Monday, March 25 2019
| All day | Arrival of participants to Chania |
| 19.00 | Registration |
| 19.00 | Reception at Conference Center |
Tuesday, March 26 2019
| 08:30 | Registration |
| 09:00 – 09:10 | George Baourakis (Director of MAICh, Greece), Panagiotis Kalaitzis (Studies/Research Coordinator, MAICh, Greece) Local organisers welcome |
| 09.10 – 09.25 | Mario Pezzotti (MC Chair, University of Verona, Italy) Welcome speech and introduction |
09.25 | Session 1: Setting up the context |
| 09.25 – 09.45 | Anne-Francoise Adam-Blondon (MC Vice Chair, INRA, France) Possibilities and needs of the participating countries in terms of infrastructure for bioinformatics |
| 09.45 – 10.15 | Paul Kersey (MC Member, WG2 Leader, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK) International initiatives to support open data in Life Sciences |
| 10.15 – 10.45 | Kristina Gruden (Invited Speaker COST Action CHARME, National Institute of Biology, Slovenia) Towards implementation of FAIR data management in life sciences – ongoing efforts in COST CHARME |
| 10.45 – 11.15 | Coffee Break |
11.15 | Session 2: External Views of Data Integration for grapevine improvement |
| 11.15 – 12.00 | Dario Cantu (Invited Speaker, UC Davis, USA) Characterization of genomic diversity in grapevines through whole-genome assembly |
| 12.00 – 14.00 | Lunch and poster session |
14.00 | Session 3: Status and example of databases in the grapevine community |
| 14.00 – 14.45 | Doreen Ware – GRAMENE (Invited Speaker, USDA-ARS & Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA) Developing Pan-Genome resources for grapevine |
| 14.45 – 15.05 | Ludger Hausmann (Julius Kühn-Institut, Institute for Grapevine Breeding, Germany) The Vitis International Variety Catalogue and the European Vitis database |
| 15.05 – 15.25 | Anne-Françoise Adam-Blondon (MC Vice-Chair, INRA, France) Federations of information systems in the plant community and possible application to grapevine |
| 15.25 – 15.55 | Coffee break |
Wednesday, March 27 2019
09.00 | Session 5 (continued). Example of large data sets managed by the community |
| 09.00 – 09.30 | Fulvio Mattivi (MC Member, WG2 Scientific Advisor, University of Trento, Italy) (co-authors: Alessandro Cestaro, Pietro Franceschi, Marco Moretto) Interoperability in metabolomics: the role of standardisation (co-authors: Alessandro Cestaro, Pietro Franceschi, Marco Moretto) |
| 09.30 – 09.50 | Marco Moretto (Unit of Computational Biology, Research and Innovation Center, Fondazione Edmund Mach, S. Michele all’Adige, Italy) VESPUCCI: the integrated gene expression database for grapevine |
| 09.50 – 10.10 | Carlos M. Rodriguez Lopez (University of Kentucky, USA) Ancient epialleles: a multi-omic view on wine quality |
| 10.10 – 10.30 | Ia Pipia (Agricultural University of Georgia, Georgia) Whole genome sequencing and gene annotation of Georgian grape cultivars |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee Break |
| 11.00 – 11.20 | Roland Pieruschka (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) EMPHASIS a European research infrastructure to integrate plant phenotyping and make data reusable |
| 11.20 – 11.40 | Nabil Girollet (INRA, France) Investigating grapevine x environment interactions: data integration is the corner stone! |
| 11.40 – 12.00 | Dr Andreas Doulis (Department of Vitis, Institute of Olive Tree Subtropical Crops and Viticulture, Hellenic Agricultural Organization-Demeter, Greece) New integrated Hellenic Vitis resources available for further scientific collaboration |
| 12.00 – 12.20 | Matus José Tomás (Institute for Integrative Systems Biology, Spain) Determining the cistrome landscapes of the grape MYB transcription factor family: on the search of novel secondary metabolism regulators |
| 12.20 | Training Schools |
| 12.20 – 12.40 | George Manganaris (Training School Coordinator, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus) Presentation of training schools (procedure and proposals) |
| 12.40 – 14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 – 16.00 | Working Group’s World café |
| 17.00 – 18.00 | Wrap up of priorities for the next period |
| 20.00 | Social dinner at Conference Centre |
Thursday, March 28 2019
| 09.00 – 10.00 | Conference Wrap up and Conclusions |
| 10.00 – 11.00 | CA17111 – Core Group Meeting |
| 11.00 – 13.30 | Coffee Break |
| 11.30 – 13.00 | CA17111 – Management Committee |
| 13.00 | End of Conference |
List of Conference Invited Speakers
- Dario Cantù, Professor of Viticulture and Enology at College of Biological Sciences
(UC Davis, USA), - Doreen Ware, Computational Biologist, Computational Biologist
(USDA-ARS, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA) - Kristina Gruden, Professor of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Biology
(Ljubljana, Slovenia), a representative of CA15110 Harmonising standardisation strategies
to increase efficiency and competitiveness of European life- science research (CHARME).
Conference Scientific Committee
- Mario Pezzotti (Action MC Chair, University of Verona, Italy)
- Anne-Francoise Adam-Blondon (Action MC Vice Chair, INRA, France)
- Reinhard Toepfer (WG 1 Leader, Julius Kühn-Institute, Institute for Grapevine Breeding, Germany)
- Paul Kersey (WG 2 Leader, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK)
- Johan Trygg (WG3 Leader, Umea University, Sweden)
- Dragan Nikolic (WG4 Leader, University of Belgrade, Serbia)
- Panagiotis Kalaitzis (Local Organiser, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Greece)
- Marina Dermastia (Science Communication Manager, National Institute of Biology, Slovenia)