Past Symposia and Speakers
| The International Impact of Plant Science | 2023 |
|---|---|
| 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 at the University of California, Davis |
| Megan Bowman | Director of research operations at 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 at Corteva Agriscience |
| Growing Solutions for a Changing Climate | 2022 |
| Aubrey Streit-Krug | Director of Ecosphere Studies at The Land Institute |
| Steve Knapp | Director of the Strawberry Breeding Program at the University of California Davis |
| Andrzej Kilian | Founder and the Director (President) of Diversity Arrays Technology Pty Ltd (DArT) |
| Molly Jahn | Program Manager in the Defense Sciences Office at DARPA |
| Jon Massman | Soybean Technology Lead at Corteva |
| Plant Science in a Rapidly Changing World | 2021 |
| 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 |
| 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 at 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 |
| 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 in the Department of Biochemistry at Purdue University |
| Tom Clement | Professor of Biotechnology - University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| Vance Whitaker | Strawberry breeding program at the University of Florida |
| Domestication and Contemporary Plant Breeding | 2017 |
| Alisson Miller | Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Saint Louis University |
| Brianna Gross | Assistant professor of biology at the University of Minnesota, Duluth |
| John Burke | Professor of Plant Biology at the 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 at New York University |
| Plant Breeding: Rooted in Education | 2016 |
| Bruce Walsh | Professor in the departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Public Health, Plant Sciences, and the BIO5 Institute at the University of Arizona |
| Eric Watkins | Associate Professor in the Department of Horticultural Science at the University of Minnesota |
| Fred Bliss | Professor Emeritus in the Dept. of Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis |
| Gary Atlin | Crop productivity functional team lead in Agricultural R&D at the Gates Foundation |
| Liz Lee | Professor in plant agriculture at the University of Guelph |
| Breeding Crops for Alternative Systems and Environments | 2015 |
| John Arbuckle | Vice President of Crop Genetics Research & Development for DuPont Pioneer |
| Kevin Murphy | Assistant Professor of Barley and Alternative Crop Breeding at Washington State University |
| Julie Dawson | Assistant Professor in the Department of Horticulture at the 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 at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics |
| Breeding today for tomorrow’s problems | 2014 |
| Amy Lezzoni | Project Director - RosBREED - Michigan State University |
| Bill Dolezal | Research plant pathologist at Pioneer’s Union City, TN, Corn Research Center |
| Chris Richards | Population geneticist for the 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 at North Carolina State University in the Department of Crop Science |