Course info

Sun, 01/11

Activity-Discussions-Demonstration

Responsibility

Arrival of participants to AGERI

AGERI (ICARDA staff)

09:30 – 10:00

Registration

CDU, ICARDA

10:00 – 11:00

Opening Ceremony                               

CDU, ICARDA

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee break and Group photo

11:30 – 12:30

Training course Program Presentation

Dr. Wuletaw Tadesse Degu (online); Dr Aladdin Hamwieh,

Mr. Charles Kleinermann

12:30 – 13:30

 Lunch Break

13:30 – 14:30

Zero Assessment

Mr. Kleinermann/ Dr. Tadesse (online)

14:30-17:30

Lecture: Bread Wheat Breeding: Approaches and strategies

Dr. Tadesse (online)

Monday, 02/11

Venue: AGERI

08:00

Bus departure to AGERI

09:00 – 9:30

Current status of wheat research in Egypt

Dr Salah Abdulmajeed

9:30-10:30

Activities of the food security project in Egypt

Dr Samy Sabri

10:30-11:30

Wheat breeding at Sakha station

Dr Adel Hagras

11:30- 12: 30

Wheat breeding at Sids station

Dr Sherif Thabet

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch break

13:00 – 14:30

Quantitative genetics for plant breeders

Dr. Abdulkader Jighly (online)

14:30 – 16:00

Biotechnology practical (DNA extraction)

Ms. Nourhan Fouad

Tuesday, 03/11

Venue: AGERI

08:00

Bus departure to AGERI

09:00 – 10:30

Biosafety

Dr. Hisham Shishtawi

10:30-12:00

Lecture: legumes breeding 

Dr. Fouad Maalouf (online) & Dr.Rehab Abdulrahman

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch break

13:00 – 14:30

Introduction to molecular markers

Dr. Mohamed Atia

14:30 – 16:00

Biotechnology practical (PCR)

Ms. NourhanFouad

Wednesday, 04/11

Venue:AGERI

08:00

Bus departure to AGERI

09:00 – 10:30

Barley breeding program

Dr. Mohammad Mansour

10:30-12:00

Speed breeding for enhancing genetic gain

Dr. Tadesse

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch break

13:00 – 14:30

Seed system

Zewdie Bishaw & Dr. Abdul-Aziz Neiane (online)

14:30 – 16:00

Biotechnology practical (Electrophoresis)

M. Nourhan Fouad

Thursday, 05/11

Venue:AGERI

08:00

Bus departure to AGERI

09:00 – 10:30

Mobilizing wheat diversity for disease resistance breeding

Dr Almed El-Kot

10:30-12:00

Mapping and QTL (practical software)

Dr. Aladdin Hamwieh

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch break

13:00 – 14:30

Data analysis (genetic diversity, association mapping)

Dr. Alsamman Alsamman

14:30 – 16:00

Association (Practical data analysis)

Dr. Alsamman Alsamman

Sunday, 08/11

Venue: AGERI

08:00

Bus departure to AGERI

09:00 – 10:30

Introduction to data analysis

Mr. Khaled El-Shamaa

10:30-12:00

Data analysis using R

Mr. Khaled El-Shamaa

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch break

13:00 – 14:30

Data analysis using R

Mr. Khaled El-Shamaa

14:30 – 16:00

Data analysis using R

Mr. Khaled El-Shamaa

Monday, 09/11

Venue: AGERI

08:00

Bus departure to AGERI

09:00 – 10:30

Lecture: Breeding for crop quality

Dr. Tadesse

10:30-12:00

Wheat Diseases: IPM

Dr. Nazari Kumarse (online)

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch break

13:00 – 14:30

Crop molecular/biological control 

Dr. Wael Elmenofy

14:30 – 16:00

Genome Editing

Dr. Haitham Mohammad

Tuesday, 10/11

Venue: AGERI

08:00

Bus departure to AGERI

09:00 – 10:30

Modernizing traditional mathematical models in breeding

Dr. Abdulkader Jighly (online)

10:30-12:00

Doubled haploid/tissue culture

Dr. Sawsan Tawkaz

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch break

13:00 – 14:30

Irrigation management and water use efficiency

Dr. Atef Swelam

14:30 – 16:00

Nitrogen-fixing Rhizobium symbiosis

Dr. Hatem Aboutaleb

Wednesday, 11/11

Venue:AGERI

08:00

Bus departure to AGERI

09:00 – 10:30

AGERI

ARC

10:30-12:00

Nanotechnology and its application : Lab. visit

ARC

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch break

13:00 – 14:30

Forage Institute (Lecture / Lab visit)

ARC

14:30 – 16:00

Soil Laboratory (Lecutre/ Lab visit)

ARC

Thursday, 12/11

Venue:AGERI

08:00

Bus departure to AGERI

09:00 – 10:30

General discussion

10:30-12:00

Training Evaluation

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch break

13:00 – 14:30

Closing Ceremony and Award of Certificates