Thursday

November 5  

Arrival

08:00-22:00

Registration check-in: Grand Skylight Hotel

Session Ⅰ

Opening ceremony and keynote presentation

Chair: Qiao-Quan Liu

17:00-17:20

Opening ceremony

17:20-17:55

Zhong-Hu He  (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences /CIMMYT) Association mapping and molecular marker development for color related traits in bread wheat by new tools

17:55-18:30

Sandra Hill (University of Nottingham, UK) Characterisation methods relevant to starch and starchy materials when processed at moderate water content

18:30

Welcome mixer

Friday

November 6

Session Ⅱ

Genetic diversity and improvement

Chair: Zhong-Hu He

08:30-09:00

Ai-Min Zhang (Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology,  Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Wheat storage protein: composition, diversity and genetic improvement

09:00-09:30

Mike Sissons (NSW Australia Department of Agriculture, Australia) How does manipulation of the glutenin composition of durum wheat impact pasta and bread making quality and starch digestibility?

09:30-10:00

Yann-Rong Lin (National Taiwan University) To study rice grain quality by natural variants and mutants

10:00-10:30

Morning tea/coffee

Session Ⅲ

Starch structure and properties

Chair: Wei-Ning Huang

10:30-11:00

Harold Corke (University of Hong Kong, HK) New approaches to measurement of starch texture

11:00-11:30

Yong-Cheng Shi (Kansas State University, USA) Properties, modifications, and applications of waxy wheat flour and starch

11:30-11:50

Robert G. Gilbert ( Huazhong University of Science and Technology, University of Queensland) Characterization and interpretation of starch structural data

12:00-14:00

Lunch time

Session Ⅳ

Genomics and grain quality

Chair: Yann-Rong Lin

14:00-14:30

Nese Sreenivasulu (International Rice Research Institute,  Philippine) Design healthier and high quality grains using post-genomic resources

14:30-15:00

Jian-Bing Yan (Huazhong Agriculture University, China) High nutritional maize for poor

15:00-15:20

Qiang-Sheng Wang (Nanjing  Agricultural University, China) Effects of brassinosteroids on the yield and quality of mechanically-planted hybrid rice

15:20-15:40

Qiao-Quan Liu (Yangzhou University, China) Genetic dissection of natural variation of rice ECQ, amylose as an example

15:40-18:00

Posters Afternoon tea/coffee/group photo

17:00-18:00

Committee meeting

18:00

Dinner

Saturday

November 7 

Session Ⅴ

Food quality and safety

Chair: Yong-cheng Shi

08:30-09:00

Gerard Downey (Ashtown Food Research Centre, Ireland) The role of vibrational spectroscopy in brand protection and food product assurance

09:00-09:30

Jian-Rong Shi (Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China) Risk and management of Fusarium toxins of wheat in China

09:30-09:50

Jovin Hasjim (Roquette Company) Health benefits of resistant dextrins

10:00-10:30

Morning tea/coffee

Session Ⅵ

Genetic improvement I

Chair: Andreas Blennow

10:30-11:00

Kim H. Hebelstrup (Aarhus University, Denmark) Methods towards starch and carbohydrate bioengineering in barley

11:00-11:30

Jian-Sheng Li (China Agricultural University, China) Improvement of nutrition traits by molecular markers in maize

11:30-11:50

Zhi-Ying Deng (Shandong  Agricultural University, China) Genetic dissection of the sensory and texture properties of Chinese white noodles using the specific RIL population

11:50-12:05

Yi-Hao Yang (Yangzhou University, China) Identification of quantitative trait loci responsible for rice grain protein content using chromosome segment substitution lines and fine mapping of qPC-1 in rice (Oryza sativa L.)

12:05-14:00

Lunch time

Session Ⅶ

Genetic improvement II

Chair: Ai-Min Zhang

14:00-14:30

Andreas Blennow (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Transgenic barley grain modified for high-value food and bioplastics

14:30-15:00

Peng Zhang (Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology,  Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) STORAGE ROOT DEFICIENCY (SRD) gene regulates starch metabolism and storage root development in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz)

15:00-15:20

Ying Zhu (Zhejiang  Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China)  Genetic dissection of grain quality regulation at high temperature with CSSLs in rice

15:20-15:35

Awais Rasheed ( Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China) Development and validation of SNP assays for functional gene underpin end-use quality

15:35-16:00

Afternoon tea/coffee

Session Ⅷ

Biosynthesis-structure-property relations

Chair: Harold Corke

16:00-16:30

Jay-Lin Jane (Iowa State University, USA) Structures and properties of resistant starch

16:30-17:00

Wei-Ning Huang (Jiangnan University, China) Innovation and advancement of modern frozen dough fermentation and baking industrialization key technologies in China

17:00-17:20

Xue-Ling Zheng (Henan University of Technology, China) The mechanical damage properties of wheat A starch and B starch

17:20-17:35

Cheng Li (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) New insights into leaf starch biosynthesis, the fuel for synthesis of starch in cereals

17:35-17:50

Juan Wang (Yangzhou University, China) Heterogeneous properties of high-amylose rice starch granules with different morphologies

17:50-18:00

Closing ceremony 

Chair: Robert G. Gilbert

18:00

Dinner

Sunday

November 8  Tour/Leaving