Time | Speaker | Title |
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | Registration and Breakfast |
8:00 AM – 8:15 AM | Opening Remarks |
8:20 AM – 9:05 AM | Dr. Kan Wang | Progress and Challenges in Crop Bioengineering and Genome Editing |
9:10 AM – 9:55 AM | Dr. James Schnable | Making the Invisible Visible Across Genomes and Fields |
10:00 AM – 10:45 AM | Poster Session 1 – even numbered posters |
10:50 AM – 11:05 AM | Ashlyn Rairdin | Identification of Genomic Regions Associated with Protein Content in the Iowa Mung Bean Diversity Panel |
11:10 AM – 11:55 AM | Dr. Luca Comai | Haploid induction through centromere destabilization |
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Lunch |
12:30 PM – 12:50 PM | Special Awards Ceremony |
1:05 PM – 1:50 PM | Dr. Rita Mumm | Building the global workforce to push genetic frontiers in crop improvement |
1:55 PM – 2:40 PM | Dr. Gaganpreet Sidhu | Targeting meiotic recombination for crop improvement |
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM | Poster Session 2 – odd numbered posters |
3:35 PM – 4:20 PM | Dr. Jon Reinders | A novel in vivo genome editing doubled haploid system for Zea mays |
4:25 PM – 4:40 PM | Yizhou Mao | A Comparative Analysis of the Metabolic Profiles of Cranberry Cultivars at Different Developmental Stages Using Widely Targeted Metabolomics |
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM | Poster Awards and Closing Remarks |
6:00 PM – onward | Post Symposium Social at Torrent Brewing – 504 Burnett Ave, Ames, IA 50010 |