Events

The Raymond F. Baker Center for Plant Breeding sponsors many events throughout the year. Please join us for all future educational events! Questions, contact us at rfbakercenter@iastate.edu. 

2025

  • Apr 30, 2025 - 3:00 PM
    to Apr 30, 2025 - 4:00 PM

    “Re-imaging how new technologies will shape germplasm improvement”

    Nathan Springer,

    Wednesday, April 30th, 2025

    Agronomy 3140, 3:00 – 4:00 pm

    Description: Plant breeding has been exceptionally successful in developing highly productive and resilient varieties for many crop species. While plant breeding continues to evolve there are also a variety of biotechnology applications that offer the potential to augment our ability to develop improved varieties. We will consider a variety of technologies and applications that can add new traits or change the ways we think about moving genetic information.  I will highlight several of the key challenges that limit the current application of these technologies.

  • May 7, 2025 - 3:00 PM
    to May 7, 2025 - 4:00 PM

    “Breeding to support diverse midwestern grain rotations”

    Lauren Brzozowski,

    Wednesday, May 7th, 2025

    Agronomy 3140, 3:00 – 4:00 pm

    Description: This talk will highlight recent progress in breeding winter rye and winter oat for Kentucky, including application of molecular and genomic tools to accelerate breeding progress. In this talk, she will also share her perspective of beginning new plant breeding programs as an early career researcher.

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