Maria Carlota Vaz Patto (ITQB – Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica / UNL – Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Lisboa, Portugal) ‘Portugal at the diverse common bean world’ BEAN_ADAPT kick-off meeting Global Crop Diversity Trust, Bonn (Germany) 10-11 August 2015 Slovenia, Slovenia) Vladimir Meglič (Dept. of Crop Science, Agricultural Institute of Slovenia ‘From Genetic Diversity to Proteomic Analyses of South East European Beans’ Domenico Rau (Università di Sassari, Italy) ‘Research activities on Phaseolus spp. at the UNISS’ Monday, 10th of August: 16.30 - 17.00 Tania Gioia (Jülich Forschungszentrum, Germany / Università degli Studi della Basilicata, Italy) ‘The European ean common bean: researche activities at the UNIBAS’ Arrival of kick-off BEAN_ADAPT Participants 17.00 - 19.00 17.00 Roberto Papa (BEAN_ADAPT Consortium) - ‘The BEAN_ADAPT project’ 17.15 Peter Wenzl (Global Crop Diversity Trust) - ‘DivSeek: Current status & some lessons learned from a large-scale genebank characterization effort’ 17.40 Paula Bramel (Global Crop Diversity Trust) - ‘Global conservation strategy for common beans and Phaseolus spp.’ 18.05 Ulrich Schurr (Jülich Forschungszentrum) - ‘Phenotyping plant genetic resources’ 12.00 - 12.30 coffee break Alessia Cogliandro (European Seed Association) ‘ESA ESA European Seed Association activities and the seed sector in Europe Europe’ Peter Pauls (Dept of Plant Agriculture Agriculture, University of Guelph) ‘The The OAC Rex genome - a Meso American bean with Phaseolus acutifolius introgressions’ Dinner at the Brauhaus Bönnsch Juan Jose Ferreira (Servicio Regional de Investigaciòn y Desarrollo Agroalimentario, Spain) ‘The plant genetic group of SERIDA (Spain): working lines and last results’ Tuesday, 11th of August: 8.30 - 9.00 Opening Shakeel Bhatti (FAO, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture) - ‘Global Information System: next programme of Work and opportunities for collaboration’ 9.00 - 10.30 BEAN_ADAPT: Project description, Consortium presentation and Tasks and Activities presentations Introduction Roberto Papa, UNIVPM (Project coordinator) Germplasm sampling & characterization Andreas Graner, IPK (WP1 leader) Genomics and Bioinformatics, data storage & sharing Scott A. Jackson, UGA (WP2 and WP4 Leader) Phenotyping Paul Gepts, UC-DAVIS (WP7 Leader) Data analyses, Dissemination and Connection with other groups Roberto Papa, UNIVPM (Project coordinator) Discussion 10.30 - 11.00 coffee break 11.00 - 13.30 Associated partner presentations and possible collaborations within BEAN_ADAPT Bodo Raatz (CIAT, Colombia) ‘CIAT Genetic Resources Unit: genetic stocks and functions of the germplasm bank’ Creola Brezeanu (European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources, ECPGR) ‘ECPGR - a safety network for our crops’ Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops Crops, Dept.. for Vegetable production production, Aleksandra Savić (Institute Novi Sad, Serbia) ‘Bean Bean breeding prog program and research activities at Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops (IFVCNS)’ Francesca Sparvoli (IBBA, CNR, Italy) ‘Bean seed components and seed nutritional quality’ Jülich Forschungszentrum Forschungszentrum, Germany) Siegfried Jahnke (Jülich ‘Possible cooperation for whole plant and/or seed phenotyping’ 13.30 - 14.30 lunch 14.30 - 16.30 Discussion and Closing remarks