Symposium Schedule

Event times are PST

10:00 am Introduction

10:10 am Elizabeth Haswell (Washington University in St. Louis)

"Plant cell mechanobiology: greater than the sum of its parts"

10:40 am Morgan Halane (UC Riverside)

"Plants resisting disease, plant scientists resisting racism."

11:10 am Coffee Break

11:20 am Student lightning talks

12:30 pm Lunch

1:25 pm Career Panel

-Andrea Arias (Corteva)

-Rishi Masalia (LeafWorks)

-Anna Locke (Research Plant Physiologist USDA)

-Sonia Zarate (Program officer at Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

2:10 pm Andrea Arias (Corteva) "Agriculture in the digital age"

2:40 pm Exequiel Ezcurra (UC Riverside)

"Memories of the future: Rainforest relicts provide clues about the last interglacial period"

3:10 pm Coffee Break

3:30 pm Yermanos Speaker: Rishi Masalia (LeafWorks)

"Back to Cannabasics, a genetic look at Cannabis label consistency"

4:10 pm Gómez-Pompa Speaker: Richard Bugbee (Kumeyaay Community College)

"Chipé'na: Cyclical Mosaic Burns"

4:50 pm Symposium Close

5:00 pm Break

5:10 pm Botany and Plant Science Award Ceremony