Symposium Schedule

Event times are in PST

10:00 am Introduction

10:20 am Yermanos Speaker: Rex Bernardo (University of Minnesota)

"Plant Breeding in Times of Change"

11:20 am Logan Kistler (Smithsonian)

"Ancient DNA perspectives on plant domestication"

12:10 pm Lunch

1:00 pm Jon Reinders (Corteva Agriscience)

"Enabling Maize Microspore Embryogenesis Using Machine Learning"

1:50 pm Patricia Lang (Stanford University)

"Studying developmental responses to climate change with functional historical genomics"

2:40 pm Break

3:00 pm Dan Chitwood (Michigan State University)

"Perspective matters: a topological view of plant morphology and training in computational plant science"

3:50 pm Break

4:00 pm Mitchell Feldman (UC Davis)

"Genomic Prediction and Other Approaches for Redesigning Strawberry Breeding"

5:00 pm Symposium Close

5:10 pm Botany and Plant Science Department Award Ceremony