| Advocating for Growth: Bridging Science and Society in Plant Research | 2025 | |
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| Thom Petersen | Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture | Agriculture, Government and Advocacy in Minnesota |
| Kathryn Anderson | Union of Concerned Scientists | From Science to Action: Advancing Agricultural Policy for a Sustainable Future |
| Kevin Folta | University of Florida | Public Engagement in Uncertain Times: We Must Control Academic Ag’s Narrative |
| David Bubeck | Corteva Agriscience | Plant Breeding Without Boundaries and Inspirations for Advocacy |
Past Speakers
| Harvesting Synergies: Elevating Plant Sciences Through Interdisciplinarity | 2024 |
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| Jianming Yu | Director of the Raymon F. Baker Center for Plant Breeding - Iowa State University |
| Magdalena Julkowska | Assistant Professor - Boyce Thompson Institute |
| Elison Blancaflor | Senior Scientist - NASA Kennedy Space Center |
| Emily Ziemke | Portfolio Lead at Farming Solutions & Digital Group - Corteva Agriscience |
| Salvador A. Gezan | Statistical Genetics Consultant - VSNI International |
| The International Impact of Plant Science | 2023 |
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| Alison Bentley | Director of CIMMYT's Global Wheat Program |
| Allen Van Deynze | Director of the Seed Biotechnology Center and Associate Director of the Plant Breeding Center - University of California, Davis |
| Megan Bowman | Director of Research Operations - Ball Horticultural |
| Vara Prasad | Distinguished Professor, R.O. Kruse Endowed Professor and Director - Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab |
| Tabare Abadie | Senior Research Manager and Distinguished Laureate - Corteva Agriscience |
| Growing Solutions for a Changing Climate | 2022 |
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| Aubrey Streit-Krug | Director of Ecosphere Studies - The Land Institute |
| Steve Knapp | Director of the Strawberry Breeding Program - University of California Davis |
| Andrzej Kilian | Founder and Director (President) of Diversity Arrays Technology Pty Ltd (DArT) |
| Molly Jahn | Program Manager - Defense Sciences Office at DARPA |
| Jon Massman | Soybean Technology Lead - Corteva |
| Plant Science in a Rapidly Changing World | 2021 |
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| Adam Famoso | Associate Professor - Louisiana State University |
| Ari Novy | President and CEO - San Diego Botanic Garden |
| Cathie Martin | John Innes Centre - East Anglia University |
| Ariana Torres | Horticulture Business - Purdue University |
| Philip Crain | Corteva Research Scientist - Predictive Agriculture R&D |
| International Perspectives on Global Hunger: Feeding the World Through Innovation, Collaboration, and Communication | 2019 |
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| Abebe Menkir | International Institute of Tropical Agriculture |
| Paul Porter | Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, UMN |
| Sandra Milach | Global Leader for Systems and Innovations for Breeding - Corteva Agriscience |
| Sayed Azam-Ali | Chief Executive Officer of the Crops For Future Research Centre (CFFRC) |
| From Markers to Markets: Breeding for End Use Quality | 2018 |
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| Amy Jacobson | DuPont Pionneer - Discovery Breeder |
| Jim Kirkwood | Former General Mills - Chief Science and Technology Development Officer and Vice President, GTECH; (General Mills’ Global Center for Technology Creation) |
| Natalia Dudareva | Distinguished Professor - Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University |
| Tom Clement | Professor of Biotechnology - University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| Vance Whitaker | Strawberry Breeding Program - University of Florida |
| Domestication and Contemporary Plant Breeding | 2017 |
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| Alisson Miller | Associate Professor - Department of Biology at Saint Louis University |
| Brianna Gross | Assistant Professor of Biology - University of Minnesota, Duluth |
| John Burke | Professor of Plant Biology - University of Georgia in the Department of Plant Biology |
| John Doebley | Quantitative Genetics of Maize-Teosinte Evolution - University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Michael Purugganan | Dean for Science and Silver Professor of Biology - New York University |
| Plant Breeding: Rooted in Education | 2016 |
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| Bruce Walsh | Professor in the Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Public Health, Plant Sciences - BIO5 Institute at the University of Arizona |
| Eric Watkins | Associate Professor in the Department of Horticultural Science - University of Minnesota |
| Fred Bliss | Professor Emeritus in the Dept. of Plant Sciences - University of California, Davis |
| Gary Atlin | Crop Productivity Functional Team Lead in Agricultural R&D - Gates Foundation |
| Liz Lee | Professor in Plant Agriculture - University of Guelph |
| Breeding Crops for Alternative Systems and Environments | 2015 |
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| John Arbuckle | Vice President of Crop Genetics Research & Development - DuPont Pioneer |
| Kevin Murphy | Assistant Professor of Barley and Alternative Crop Breeding - Washington State University |
| Julie Dawson | Assistant Professor in the Department of Horticulture - University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Lee Dehann | The Land Institute - Kansas |
| Marc Albertsen | DuPont Fellow and Leader of the Research for Enhanced Adaptation and Crop Hybridization (REACH) |
| Jim Orf | Professor - University of Minnesota in the Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics |
| Breeding Today for Tomorrow’s Problems | 2014 |
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| Amy Lezzoni | Project Director, RosBREED - Michigan State University |
| Bill Dolezal | Research Plant Pathologist - Pioneer Union City, TN, Corn Research Center |
| Chris Richards | Population Geneticist - USDA-ARS National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation in Fort Collins, Colorado |
| Dan Voytas | Department of Genetics, Cell Biology & Development - University of Minnesota |
| Major Goodman | William Neal Reynolds and Distinguished University Professor - North Carolina State University in the Department of Crop Science |