International Wheat Quality Conference - IV

June 2-6, 2009

Radisson Hotel, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Preliminary Program Schedule (as of February 24, 2009)

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| **Tuesday   |                                                        |
| June 02,    |                                                        |
| 2009**      |                                                        |
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| 3:00 to     | *Registration*                                         |
| 7:00 PM     |                                                        |
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| 6:30 to     | *Welcome Reception and Mixer*:                         |
| 10:00 PM    |                                                        |
|             | **Co-chairs:** Ravindra Chibbar, Department of Plant   |
|             | Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon,       |
|             | Saskatchewan , CANADA & James Dexter, Canadian Grain   |
|             | Commission, Grain Research Laboratory, Winnipeg,       |
|             | Manitoba, CANADA                                       |
|             |                                                        |
|             | *Welcoming Addresses*:                                 |
|             |                                                        |
|             | Canadian Wheat Board, CANADA                           |
|             |                                                        |
|             | Genome Prairie, CANADA                                 |
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| **Wednesday |                                                        |
| June 03,    |                                                        |
| 2009**      |                                                        |
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| 7:00 to     | *Continental Breakfast*                                |
| 8:00 AM     |                                                        |
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| 8:00 to     | *Welcome, Inauguration and Keynote Address*:           |
| 10:00 AM    |                                                        |
|             | **Co-Chairs:** Bruce Coulman, Department of Plant      |
|             | Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon,       |
|             | Saskatchewan, CANADA & Okkyung Chung, Department of    |
|             | Grain Science and Industry, Kansas State University,   |
|             | Manhattan, Kansas, USA                                 |
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|             | *Welcoming Addresses*:                                 |
|             |                                                        |
|             | Okkyung Chung, IWQC originator and past chair of IWQC  |
|             | I-III, Manhattan, Kansas, USA                          |
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|             | University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,   |
|             | CANADA                                                 |
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|             | Canadian Grain Commission, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA  |
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|             | Mary Ellen Camire, President, AACC International, St.  |
|             | Paul, Minnesota, USA                                   |
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|             | Marina Carcea, President-Elect, International          |
|             | Association for Cereal Science and Technology, Vienna, |
|             | AUSTRIA                                                |
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| 8:40        | *Conference Inauguration*                              |
|             |                                                        |
|             | Hon. Bob Bjornerud, Saskatchewan Minister of           |
|             | Agriculture, Regina, Saskatchewan, CANADA              |
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| 9:00        | *Opening Keynote Address*                              |
|             |                                                        |
|             | Donald Mennel, The Mennel Milling Company, Fostoria,   |
|             | Ohio, USA                                              |
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| 10:00 to    | *Health Break -- Coffee, Tea*                          |
| 10:30 AM    |                                                        |
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| 10:30 AM to | *Trends in International Markets and Trade*:           |
| 12:30 PM    |                                                        |
|             | **Co-Chairs:** Robert Cracknell, Crackers Consulting,  |
|             | Mount Eliza, Victoria, AUSTRALIA & James Dexter,       |
|             | Canadian Grain Commission, Grain Research Laboratory,  |
|             | Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA                             |
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|             | Robert Cracknell, Crackers Consulting, Mount Eliza,    |
|             | Victoria, AUSTRALIA                                    |
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|             | Bruce Burnett, Canadian Wheat Board, Winnipeg,         |
|             | Manitoba, CANADA                                       |
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|             | *Challenges and opportunities for marketing of U.S.    |
|             | northern grown wheat*, Brian Sorenson, Northern Crops  |
|             | Institute, Fargo, North Dakota, USA                    |
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|             | Maria Laura Seghezzo, Laboratorio de Calidad           |
|             | Industrial de Granos, INTA Barrow, Tres Arroyos,       |
|             | Buenos Ares, ARGENTINA                                 |
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|             | *Development of science and industry of wheat-based    |
|             | foods in China*, Weining Huang, School of Food Science |
|             | and Technology, International Exchange and Cooperation |
|             | Program, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, CHINA*.*           |
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|             | *Dynamics of wheat production, processing and export   |
|             | in India*, Dharm Pal Malik, Department of Agriculture  |
|             | Economics, Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar,     |
|             | INDIA                                                  |
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| 12:30 to    | *Buffet Lunch*                                         |
| 1:30 PM     |                                                        |
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| 1:30 to     | *Food Safety and Security*                             |
| 3:30 PM     |                                                        |
|             | **Co-Chairs:** Meinolf Lindhauer, Max Rubner           |
|             | Institute, Federal Research Institute for Nutrition    |
|             | and Food, Department of Safety and Quality of Cereals, |
|             | Detmold, GERMANY & Harcharan Dhaliwal, Department of   |
|             | Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, |
|             | Roorkee*,* INDIA                                       |
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|             | *Food safety issues and cereal grains: Global          |
|             | perspectives*, David Lineback, Joint Institute for     |
|             | Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, University of       |
|             | Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA                  |
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|             | Dave Kendra, Mycotoxin Research Institute, USDA ARS    |
|             | NCAUR, Peoria, Illinois, USA                           |
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|             | Tom Nowicki, Canadian Grain Commission, Grain Research |
|             | Laboratory, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA                 |
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|             | *European safety and security perspective of wheat and |
|             | wheat based food*, Meinolf Lindhauer, Max Rubner       |
|             | Institute, Federal Research Institute for Nutrition    |
|             | and Food, Department of Safety and Quality of Cereals, |
|             | Detmold, GERMANY                                       |
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| 3:30 --     | *Interactive Poster Session with beer and wine         |
| 5:30 PM     | reception*                                             |
|             |                                                        |
|             | **Co-Chairs:** Curtis Pozniak, Crop Development        |
|             | Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon,         |
|             | Saskatchewan, CANADA & Nancy Edwards, Canadian Grain   |
|             | Commission, Grain Research Laboratory, Winnipeg,       |
|             | Manitoba, CANADA                                       |
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| 6:00 --     | *Barbecue -- Western Development Museum*               |
| 10:00 PM    |                                                        |
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|             | *Featured speaker*:                                    |
|             |                                                        |
|             | *History of wheat improvement in Canada*, Ron Depauw,  |
|             | AAFC SPARC, Swift Current, Saskatchewan, CANADA        |
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| **Thursday  |                                                        |
| June 04,    |                                                        |
| 2009**      |                                                        |
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| 7:00 --     | *Continental Breakfast*                                |
| 8:00 AM     |                                                        |
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| 8:00 --     | *Grain Fractionation and Processing*                   |
| 10:00 AM    |                                                        |
|             | **Co-Chairs**: George Lookhart, Department of Grain    |
|             | Science and Industry, Kansas State University,         |
|             | Manhattan, Kansas, USA & Ody Maningat, MGP Inc,        |
|             | Atchison, Kansas, USA                                  |
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|             | *Impact of new tools development to study wheat grain  |
|             | fractionation and control of the product quality*,     |
|             | Valerie Lullien-Pellerin, INRA, UMR Ingénieire des     |
|             | Agropolymères et Technologies Emergentes, Montpellier, |
|             | FRANCE                                                 |
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|             | *Noodle texture measurement: Moving from empirical to  |
|             | fundamental mechanical (rheological) testing*, David   |
|             | W. Hatcher and Guillermo G. Bellido, Canadian Grain    |
|             | Commission, Grain Research Laboratory, Winnipeg,       |
|             | Manitoba, CANADA                                       |
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|             | Qiang Liu, Food Research Centre, Guelph, Ontario,      |
|             | CANADA                                                 |
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|             | *Development and characterization of wheat-Aegilops    |
|             | amphiploids and interspecific derivatives with high    |
|             | grain iron and zinc content*, Harcharan S. Dhaliwal,   |
|             | Nidhi Rawat, Neelam Kumari and Vijay K. Tiwari,        |
|             | Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of       |
|             | Technology Roorkee, Roorkee*,* INDIA                   |
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|             | *Effects of suni-bug (Eurygaster spp.) damage on the   |
|             | milling properties, semolina and spaghetti quality     |
|             | characteristics of durum wheats (Triticum durum L.)*,  |
|             | Hamit Koksel, Tulin Ozderen, Burcu Olanca, Dilek Sivri |
|             | Ozay, and Turgay Sanal, Hacettepe University, Food     |
|             | Engineering Department, Ankara, TURKEY and Central     |
|             | Field Crop Research Institute, Yenimahalle/Ankara,     |
|             | TURKEY                                                 |
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|             | *Influence of mycotoxin producing fungi (Fusarium,     |
|             | Aspergillus,* *Penicillium) on gluten proteins during  |
|             | suboptimal storage of wheat after harvest,* Alexander  |
|             | Prange, Mikrobiologie und Lebensmittelhygiene, FB      |
|             | Oecotrophologie Hochschule Niederrhein,                |
|             | Mönchengladbach, GERMANY                               |
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|             | Several presentations may be selected from submitted   |
|             | abstracts                                              |
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| 10:00 --    | *Health Break -- Coffee, Tea*                          |
| 10:30 AM    |                                                        |
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| 10:30 AM to | *Dough Rheology*                                       |
| 12:30 PM    |                                                        |
|             | **Co-Chairs:** Martin Scanlon, , Department of Food    |
|             | Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba,   |
|             | CANADA & Steven Mulvaney, Department of Food Science,  |
|             | Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA              |
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|             | *Using rheological information to control the quality  |
|             | of processed cereal products*, Mahesh Padmanabhan,     |
|             | Kraft Foods Inc., Glenview, IL, USA                    |
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|             | *Novel high fibre wheat goods from diluted matrices:*  |
|             | *Visco-elastic network, functional and technological   |
|             | aspects*, Concha Collar, Department of Food Science,   |
|             | Instituto de Agroquimica y Tecnologia de Alimentos,    |
|             | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas,       |
|             | Valencia, SPAIN                                        |
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|             | *Bakery ingredients assessed in dough rheology :       |
|             | Importance of a temperature variation on a dough*,     |
|             | Charles Loubersac d'Hotel, Chopin Technologies,        |
|             | Villeneuve-la-Garenee, FRANCE                          |
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|             | *Procedure to estimate milling, rheological and        |
|             | bread-making quality of wheat by using the elastic     |
|             | properties of intact wheat kernels*, Juan de Dios      |
|             | Figuera , CINVESTAVY, Mexico, D.F., MEXICO             |
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|             | *Large deformation elasticity of gluten,* Steven       |
|             | Mulvaney, Department of Food Science, Cornell          |
|             | University, Ithaca, New York, USA                      |
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| 12:30 to    | *Buffet Lunch*                                         |
| 1:30 PM     |                                                        |
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| 1:30 to     | *Enzymes Work Wonders*                                 |
| 3:30 PM     |                                                        |
|             | **Co-Chairs**: Graham Worden, Canadian Wheat Board,    |
|             | Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA & Perry Ng, Department of   |
|             | Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State       |
|             | University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA                |
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|             | *Optimizing nutritional and technological              |
|             | functionality of wheat arabinoxylans:* *Xylanases*     |
|             | *work wonders,* Christophe Courtin, Department of Food |
|             | Chemistry and Biochemistry, Katholieke Universiteit    |
|             | Leuven, Leuven, BELGUIM                                |
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|             | Michael Tilley, USDA ARS GMPRC, Manhattan, Kansas, USA |
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|             | M. Gérard Bloch, Puratos NV/SA, Groot-Bijgaarden,      |
|             | BELGUIM                                                |
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|             | General Discussion                                     |
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| 4:00 to     | *Interactive Poster Session, Beer and win e reception* |
| 6:00 PM     |                                                        |
|             | **Co-Chairs:** Pooba Ganeshan, Department of Plant     |
|             | Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon,       |
|             | Saskatchewan, CANADA & Patricia Rayas-Duarte, Oklahoma |
|             | State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA            |
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|             | *Presentations by authors of posters*                  |
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| 6:30 to     | *Barbecue at Kernen Farm, University of Saskatchewan*  |
| 10:00 PM    |                                                        |
|             | Co-chairs: Dorothy Murrell and Kirk Blomquist, Crop    |
|             | Development Centre, University of Saskatchewan,        |
|             | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CANADA                        |
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| **Friday    |                                                        |
| June 05,    |                                                        |
| 2009**      |                                                        |
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| 7:00 to     | *Continental Breakfast*                                |
| 8:00 AM     |                                                        |
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| 8:00 AM to  | *Biotechnology/Genomics and Crop Improvement*          |
| 12:00 PM    |                                                        |
|             | **Co-Chairs**: Pierre Hucl, Crop Development Centre,   |
|             | University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,   |
|             | CANADA & Craig Morris, USDA ARS WWQL, Pullman,         |
|             | Washington, USA                                        |
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|             | Olin Anderson, Genomics and Gene Discovery, USDA ARS   |
|             | WRRC, Albany, California, USA                          |
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|             | *Wheat genomics for grain quality improvement*, Robert |
|             | Henry, Centre for Plant Conservation Genetics,         |
|             | Southern Cross University, Lismore, New South Wales,   |
|             | AUSTRALIA                                              |
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|             | Howard Eagles, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South |
|             | Australia, AUSTRALIA                                   |
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|             | Domenico Lafiandra, Department of Agrobiology and      |
|             | Agrochemistry, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, ITALY    |
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| 10:00       | *Health Break -- Coffee, Tea*                          |
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|             | Bikram Gill, Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas     |
|             | State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA               |
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|             | Michael Emes, College of Biological Sciences,          |
|             | University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, CANADA          |
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|             | Several presentations to be selected from submitted    |
|             | abstracts                                              |
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| 12:00 to    | *Buffet Lunch*                                         |
| 1:00 PM     |                                                        |
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| 1:00 PM to  | *Health and Wellness*                                  |
| 3:00 PM     |                                                        |
|             | **Co-chairs:** Roberto Javier Peña, Global Wheat       |
|             | Program, Cereal Quality Laboratory, CIMMYT, Mexico,    |
|             | D.F., MEXICO & Trust Beta, Department of Food Science, |
|             | University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA     |
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|             | *Understanding consumer perceptions about wheat and    |
|             | health*, Mary Ellen Camire, Department of Food Science |
|             | and Human Nutrition, University of Maine, Orono,       |
|             | Maine, USA                                             |
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|             | Simin Liu, Program on Genomics and Nutrition, School   |
|             | of Public Health, David Gefen School of Medicine,      |
|             | Department of Epidemiology, UCLA, Los Angeles,         |
|             | California, USA                                        |
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|             | R. Gary Fulcher, Department of Food Science,           |
|             | University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA     |
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|             | *HealthGrain: Increasing the health benefits of        |
|             | wheat,* Huw Jones, Plant Sciences Department,          |
|             | Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UNITED  |
|             | KINGDOM                                                |
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|             | Marina Carcea, INRAN, Rome, ITALY                      |
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| 3:00 to     | *Health Break -- Coffee, Tea*                          |
| 3:30 PM     |                                                        |
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| 3:30 to     | *Bioproducts*                                          |
| 5:00 PM     |                                                        |
|             | **Co-Chairs:** Ron Madl, Department of Grain Science   |
|             | and Industry, Kansas State University, Manhattan,      |
|             | Kansas, USA & Robert Tyler, Department of Food and     |
|             | Bioproduct Science, University of Saskatchewan,        |
|             | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CANADA                        |
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|             | Praveen Vadlani, Department of Grain Science and       |
|             | Industry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas,  |
|             | USA                                                    |
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|             | Jeff Robert, Delta T, USA                              |
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|             | Bart Goderis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven,  |
|             | BELGUIM                                                |
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| 5:00 to     | *Interactive Poster Session with Beer and Wine         |
| 6:00 PM     | Reception*                                             |
|             |                                                        |
|             | **Co-Chairs:** Monica Båga, Department of Plant        |
|             | Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon,       |
|             | Saskatchewan, CANADA & André Laroche, AAFC Bioproducts |
|             | and Bioprocesses, Lethbridge Research Centre,          |
|             | Lethbridge, Alberta, CANADA                            |
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| 6:30 PM to  | *Conference Banquet*                                   |
| 12:00 AM    |                                                        |
|             | *Conference Summary*, R. Carl Hoseney, Department of   |
|             | Grain Science and Industry, Kansas State University,   |
|             | Manhattan, Kansas, USA                                 |
|             |                                                        |
|             | *Awards for best posters, entertainment and            |
|             | networking*                                            |
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| Saturday    |                                                        |
| June 06,    |                                                        |
| 2009        |                                                        |
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| 9:00 AM to  | *Tours,* *University of Saskatchewan Campus:*          |
| 12:00 PM    |                                                        |
|             | > Innovation Place                                     |
|             | >                                                      |
|             | > NRC Plant Biotechnology Institute                    |
|             | >                                                      |
|             | > University of Saskatchewan College of Agriculture    |
|             | > and Bioresources & Phytotron                         |
|             | >                                                      |
|             | > POS Pilot Plant Corp                                 |
|             | >                                                      |
|             | > Canadian Light Source                                |
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