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Plant Breeding Symposium

Sponsored by Pioneer Hi-Bred, International

Organized by Graduate Students in Applied Plant Sciences Program

 

Plant Breeding in the 21st Century:

Challenges and Opportunities Across the Plant Sciences

 

Monday, March 17, 2008

Cargill Center for Microbial and Plant Genomics

St.
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Paul
Campus, University of Minnesota

8:00 am – 5:30 pm

The Symposium is FREE and open to the public

No pre-registration is necessary

 

 

Click on each speaker’s name to access their personal webpages.

Click here for complete presentation abstract and biography.

A detailed schedule of the event can be found here.

 

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Introductory Speech: Plant Breeding Education and Training: An Industry Perspective

Dr. Geoff Graham, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.

 

Keynote Address: Imagining the Future of Applied Plant Genetics

Dr. Ron Phillips, University of Minnesota

 

The Genetics of Domestication: The Evidence from Maize and Other Crops

Dr. John Doebley, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

Where Are We Growing? Making Sense of Plant Breeding Data Across Environments

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Dr. José Crossa, CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center) (Click here for Speaker presentation in pdf format)

 

Big Science and Plant Breeding: Usefulness of Genomics Data

Dr. Bill Beavis, Iowa State University (Click here for Speaker presentation in pdf format)

 

Tree Breeding: Conquering High Heterozygosity and Long Generation Times

Dr. David Neale, University of California-Davis

Directions:

Address:
Cargill Building for Microbial and Plant Genomics
1500 Gortner Avenue
St. Paul, Minnesota 55108

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General Phone: 612-624-6198                

Map and parking: http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/maps/CargillB/index.html

 

 

Committee: All members of the committee are current graduate students in the Applied Plant Sciences Program in the Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics and Department of Horticultural Science at the University of Minnesota. The symposium is solely organized by graduate students in the APS program.

 

Edmund A. Quirin (Co-chair) quir0053@umn.edu

Haiyan Jia (Co-chair) jiax0017@umn.edu

Jennifer Flynn                           Seth Fore

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Alexander Kahler                     Michael Kantar

Robenzon Lorenzana                Patricio Mayor

Steven McKay                         Katie Petersen     

Brian Seda                               Vance Whitaker

 

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about the event.

 


 Symposium poster  
 Schedule  
 Abstracts and biographies  
 Beavis.pdf   Beavis Presentation
 Crossa.pdf   Crossa presentatino