ICGN - International Coffee Genomic Network
             
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> Founding Meeting Paris (4-5 April 2005)

Coordinator's opening address :

"As part of the last ASIC conference in Bangalore/India, a round table was organised at the initiative of Dr Naidu coffee board of India to discuss the possibility and interest of an international commitment to work jointly in the area of coffee genomics. About 50 scientists from 13 different countries attended the round table. There was a general consensus for initiating an international effort on coffee genomics.

In order to implement the proposed initiative, it was decided to have an interim working group “coordinated by Agropolis, France and chaired by Prof. Andre Charrier.

Consequently, and in order to respect our mandate, we decided to organise the ICGN meeting in Paris under the umbrella of ASIC.

Furthermore, I would like to give thanks to USDA that supports the participation of several representatives from coffee producing countries and to my collegues C. Montagnon (CIRAD) and S. Hamon/A. de Kochko/Ph. Lashermes (IRD).

As mentioned in the minutes of the Bangalore Round Table, the main objective of this meeting is to discuss and agree scope, structure and modalities of implementation of the ICGN. Some of the most important issues have been also pointed out in the concept note. I wish free and constructive discussions and sincerely hope that the ICGN will move forward."

Prof. André Charrier.


List of participants :

BRASIL

IAPAR
EMBRAPA

Luiz Gonzaga E. Viera
Alan Andrade)
 
COLOMBIA

CENICAFE

Gabriel Cadena
Marcela Yepes
 
COSTA RICA

CATIE

Lizz Johnson
COTE D'IVOIRE

CNRA

Abdourahamane Sangare
ETHIOPIA



Kassahun Tesfaye
FRANCE

CIRAD
 
 
IRD
 
 
NESTLE

Christophe Montagnon
Thierry Leroy
Benoît Bertrand
Serge Hamon
Alexandre de Kochko
Philippe Lashermes
Vincent Pétiard
GERMANY

Univ. Bonn

Thomas Borsch
INDIA

TCBC Mysore
CCRI Chikmagalur
CCMB Hyderabad

H.L.Sreenath
BK Jayarama
Ramesh K. Aggarwal
 
ITALIA

Univ. Trieste

Giorgio Graziosi
KENYA

CRF

Elijah Gichuru
UK

Kew

Aaron Davis
USA

CORNELL
HAWAI
 

Steven Tanksley
Chifumi Nagai
Ray Ming
 


ASIC

André Charrier


CORNET

Charles Agwanda


IPGRI - INIBAP

Nicolas Roux
Ehsan Dulloo
 


ORION GENOMICS

Ujwala Warek

 
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