Agenda
OPENING REMARKS (8:30-8:45)
Peggy Ozias-Akins, National Association of Plant Breeders
Michael Kantar, Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee
Allen Van Deynze, University of California Seed
Biotechnology Center
Session 1
BREEDING PROGRAMS FOR FOOD AND FEED CROPS (8:45-12:00)
Chair: Peggy Ozias-Akins, Professor, University of Georgia
Wayne Parrott, University of Georgia
David Douches and Natalie Kirkwyland, Michigan State University
Larry Sernyk, Dow AgroSciences (retired)
Peggy Ozias-Akins, University of Georgia
Allen Van Deynze, University of California, Davis
Session 2
APPLYING GENETIC DIVERSITY TO IMPROVE THE PRODUCTIVITY,
EFFICIENCY AND RATE OF CROP IMPROVEMENT
(1:00-4:45)
Chair: Allen Van Deynze, Professor, University of California Davis
Shilpa Swarup, Bayer Crop Sciences
Katy Martin Rainey, Purdue University
Amy Iezzoni, Michigan State University
Zachary Lippman, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Aaron Hummel, Pairwise