***Announcement***

> **[BARLEY CAP CONFERENCE]{.underline}**
>
> **"*Coordinated Agricultural Project Conference on Barley
> Translational Genomics" ***

**November 13-14, 2004**

Plans are set for the Barley Coordinated Agricultural Project (CAP)
Conference to be held at the Cargill Building for Microbial and Plant
Genomics at the University of Minnesota on the St. Paul Campus.

The overall theme of the conference will be to discuss the use of
state-of-the-art GeneChip technology and other barley genomics tools to
develop high-throughput trait mapping for barley improvement and to
ensure that these mapped genes are available to the barley breeders. The
ultimate goal for the meeting will be to define research priorities for
barley translational genomics and outline a proposal that will be
submitted for a barley CAP grant.

Everyone who is interested in barley research is invited to attend the
Barley CAP Conference. Graduate students and post docs are also
encouraged to attend. **[Registration is required; however, there is no
registration fee]{.underline}**. Complete the attached registration form
and return by email to Kevin Smith (<smith376@umn.edu>). Refeshments at
the breaks and lunch each day will be provided for registered
participants.

**[Please submit registration forms on or before October 21 ,
2004]{.underline}**.

**[A block of rooms is being held at the Radisson Hotel Metrodome in
Minneapolis until October 21, 2004]{.underline}**. If you reserve your
room by this date, you will qualify for the special CAP conference rate
of \$94.00, plus taxes. All participants are responsible for making
their own lodging reservations and should indicate to the hotel that
they are attending the Barley CAP Conference. The hotel has parking
available for a charge of \$9.50 per day. There will be a shuttle
departing from the hotel each day at 7:30 AM to take participants to the
Cargill Building on the Saint Paul campus. Parking is also available on
the University of Minnesota St. Paul campus.

**Radisson Hotel Metrodome**

**615 Washington Avenue S.E., Minneapolis MN, 55414**

**Reservations: (612) 379-8888 or (800) 822-6757**

**Fax: (612) 379-8682**

***Website: <http://www.radisson.com/minneapolismn_metrodome>***

> CAP Conference Organizing Committee

Gary J. Muehlbauer, Chair, University of Minnesota

Brian Steffenson, University of Minnesota

Kevin Smith, University of Minnesota

Andris Kleinhofs, Washington State University

Roger Wise, USDA-ARS, Iowa State University

Patrick Hayes, Oregon State University

Timothy Close, University of California, Riverside

Michael P. Davis, National Barley Improvement Committee

Gary Hanning, Anheuser Busch

Marv Zutz, Minnesota barley grower

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REGISTRATION FORM -- Barley CAP Conference November 13-14, 2004

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***Tentative Program***

**Saturday, Nov. 13**

***Session I "Genes and bioinformatics"** Session chair, Roger Wise,
USDA-ARS, Iowa State University*

*8:10 -- 8:30 am* *"GeneChip mapping applications and review of preCAP
meeting"*

Gary Muehlbauer, University of Minnesota

*8:30 -- 8:50 am "HarvEST:Barley and the Morex Physical Map Database"*

> Timothy Close, University of California, Riverside

*8:50 -- 9:10 am "BarleyBase: a state of the art database for cereal
GeneChip data"*

> Julie Dickerson, Iowa State University

*9:10 -- 9:30 am* *"The future of barley genomics"*

Roger Wise, USDA-ARS, Iowa State University

*9:30 -- 10:00 am* Break with refreshments

***Session II "Traits"** Session chair, Patrick Hayes, Oregon State
University*

*10:00 -- 10:20 am "Barley diseases: constraints and opportunities*"

> Brian Steffenson, University of Minnesota

*10:20 -- 10:40 am "Marker-assisted selection for Fusarium head blight
resistance"*

> Kevin Smith, University of Minnesota

*10:40 --11:00 am* *"Barley stripe rust: a model for studying and
utilizing QTL"*

> Patrick Hayes, Oregon State University

*11:00 -- 11:20 am* "*New barley genes for beef production"*

> Tom Blake, Montana State University

*11:20 -- 11:40 am* *\"Unravelling the genetic complexities of malting
quality traits\"*

Steve Ullrich, Washington State University

*11:40 -- noon "Quality traits of barley for food uses"*

Byung-Kee Baik, Washington State University

*Noon -- 1:00 pm Lunch*

*1:00 -- 1:20 pm "Genetic engineering of barley: prospects and
potential"*

> Diter von Wettstein, Washington State University

***Session III "Products"** Session Chair, Michael P. Davis, National
Barley Improvement Committee*

*1:20 -- 1:40 pm "Malting barley industry needs: a research
perspective"*

> Michael P. Davis, National Barley Improvement Committee

*2:10 -- 2:30* p*m* "*Malting barley industry needs: an industry
perspective"*

> TBA

*2:30 -- 2:50 pm "Farmer needs: a Minnesota state barley grower
perspective"*

> TBA, Minnesota barley grower

*2:50 -- 3:10 pm "Farmer needs: a Washington state barley grower
perspective"*

Dave Ruark, Washington barley grower

*3:10 -- 3:30 pm Break with refreshments*

***Session IV "Coordination with international collaborators"***

*3:30 -- 4:00 pm Maintaining collaborations with international groups*

> Gary Muehlbauer, University of Minnesota and Timothy Close, University
> of California, Riverside

*4:00 -- 5:00 pm Recap of Sessions I-IV; begin to develop research
objectives and trait priorities.*

> Facilitated by Patrick Hayes
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> Break
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> Dinner

**Sunday, Nov. 14**

***Session V "Extension and Education"** Session Chair, Gary Muehlbauer,
University of Minnesota*

*8:30 -- 8:50 am "Improving Barley: From the genome to the field to the
marketplace"*

Peggy Lemaux, University of California, Berkeley

*8:50 -- 9:10 am "Data release and intellectual property issues"*

> Roger Wise, USDA-ARS, Iowa State University

*9:10 -- 9:30 am "Extension and Education plan"*

Gary Muehlbauer and Kevin Smith, University of Minnesota

***Session VI "Development of outline of conference report"***

*9:30 -- 10:00 am "Prioritization of research objectives by entire
group"*

*facilitated by* TBA

*10:00 -- 10:30 am* Break with refreshments

*10:30 -- noon Breakout groups will assemble for each research objective
and the education and extension plans. Each group will develop a plan
that will consider how we will proceed if CAP is funded or not funded,
data release and intellectual property policy, a management plan, and
coordination with international collaborators.*

*Noon -- 1:00 pm* *Lunch and report from breakout groups*

*1:00 -- 3:00 pm* *Continue work in breakout groups and submit draft
documents before departing.*