2024 Symposium

2024 Raymond F. Baker Plant Breeding Symposium

The Power of Multi-Omics: Plant Breeding in a New Era

Friday, March 22, 2024

 

Sponsored by: Corteva Symposia Series, the Raymond F. Baker Center, and ISU Department of Agronomy 

Organized by:  ISU plant breeding graduate students

Speakers:

Ivan Baxter - Donald Danforth Plant Sciences Center
Clare Casteel - Cornell University   
Diego Jarquin - University of Florida
Jamie O’Rourke - USDA-ARS        
Radu Totir – Corteva Agriscience  

 

Jinliang Yang - University of Nebraska-Lincoln

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Student Speakers:

Boris Alladassi - Iowa State University
Boris M.E. Alladassi - Iowa State University
Raissa Fon - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Presentations (recordings where available):

 

1. Dr. Jamie O’Rourke: The 'omics" of legume nutrient stress responses


2. Dr. Jinliang Yang: Leveraging multi-omics to reveal spatial and temporal adaptive genes to N-limitation


3. Boris M.E. Alladassi: Genetics of Leaf Angle Across Canopy in Maize


4. Dr. Diego Jarquin: Multi-Omics Integration in Plant Breeding: Ideas, Methods, and Implementations


5. Dr. Ivan Baxter: Integrating Metabolomics and High Throughput Phenotyping to Understand the Response of C4 Crops to Water Deficit


6. Dr. Clare Casteel: The power of multi-omics in studying plant-virus-vector interactions


7. Dr. Radu Totir: A Seed Industry Perspective: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Power of Multi-Omics


8. Raissa Fon: De Novo Genome Assembly and Sex Determination in Cylicomorpha solmsii (Urb.) Urb