Symposium

Genotype by Environment by Management (GxExM) Symposium III

Wednesday 30 - Thursday 31 October 2024
Wageningen Campus

A symposium to share understanding and approaches to predict cropperformance, accounting for Genotype by Environment by Management(GxExM) Interactions: Considering Breeder, Agronomist and Farmer Perspectives

After successful symposia in Brisbane (Australia, 2022) and Gainesville (USA, 2023), we are organizing the third symposium to offer a worldwide podium for presentations and discussions around modelling and prediction of GxExM data and interactions. The symposium will have a hybrid character with on-site participation against a limited fee of 150 euros for a maximum of 270 participants and online participation for free.  The onsite fee includes dinner on Wednesday 30 October at the conference venue (Omnia building at Wageningen campus, see photo ).

Presentations and discussions will, upon permission, be recorded and made available end 2024 / early 2025. The organizers strongly encourage anyone with an interest in modelling and prediction of GxE and GxExM interactions to participate and submit an abstract for a poster or oral presentation. For any questions about content, contributions and potential involvement, please contact Fred van Eeuwijk. 
The official symposium flyer can be downloaded here.

GxExM BACKGROUND
TThe importance of GxExM interactions has been established for many agricultural systems. There are complex and growing pressures acting upon the global crop systems on which we depend for our livelihoods. Universally, significant yield gaps have been identified between potential and realised on-farm crop productivity for most crop systems. Further, the sustainability of the current and required levels of crop productivity to meet the expectations of future needs is continually questioned. The challenges are diverse, complex and multi-faceted. Crop breeders seek to utilise available genetic resources to develop improved cultivars. Crop agronomists seek to define agronomic management practices that will work for the improved cultivars. Farmers seek to combine the improved cultivars with appropriate agronomic practices to achieve a target on-farm productivity while balancing short and long-term risks and rewards. The GxExM symposia offer a platform for the initiation and continuation of integrated efforts on problems involving modelling and prediction of GxE and GxExM at multiple levels within crop systems. The organisers aim at bringing together different modelling and utilisation perspectives and facilitate interdisciplinary discussions.

Preliminary Programme

Abstract submission

Abstract submission for the GxExM Symposium III is open until 15 September 2024 18:00 CET. 
Participate by sharing your work with colleagues. The GxExM Symposium offers excellent opportunities to learn from the latest research and practice, to network with experts and colleagues and to expand your professional horizons.
Abstracts are considered for oral and poster presentations. If your abstract is accepted and you present it at the GxExM Symposium III, it will be published in to be determinded). 
Do not miss the opportunity to share your work and upload your oral and poster presentations here.                                                            

General information

Organisers

Local organisers (WU): Fred van Eeuwijk, Jonathan Kunst, Killian Melsen, Aike Potze, Junita Solin, Yingjie Shao, Production Ecology & Resource Conservation (PE&RC) and admin support: Dinie Verbeek.
International organisers: Daniela Bustos Korts (UACh), Mark Cooper (UQ), Charlie Messina (UF) and admin support: Phoebe Baldwin (UQ).

More information

Fred van Eeuwijk (fred.vaneeuwijk@wur.nl )
Claudius van de Vijver (Claudius.vandevijver@wur.nl)

Fees ¹

The course fee includes a digital reader and for in persons participants; coffee/tea/lunch and dinner on Wednesday evening 30 October.
Note:

• Please make sure that your payment is arranged within two weeks after your registration.
• It is the participant's responsibility to make sure that the payment is done correctly and in time.

PE&RC Cancellation Conditions

• Up to 4 (four) weeks prior to the start of the course, cancellation is free of charge.
• Up to 2 (two) weeks prior to the start of the course, 50% of the participation fee will be charged.
• In case of cancellation within two weeks prior to the start of the course or no show, 100% of the participation fee will be charged.

Note: If you would like to cancel your registration, ALWAYS inform us (and do note that you will be kept to the cancellation conditions)

Registration