The Cliffs Hotel and Spa - Pismo Beach, CA, United States
Convening experts in lettuce breeding, production, post-harvest handling, safety, marketing, and consumer preferences to envision the future of lettuce.
Education, debate and advocacy are on the agenda each June at ASTA’s annual convention. Attendees focus on science and policy issues related to the development and free movement of quality seed worldwide. This is also when new association officers are installed.
Conference Center, UC Davis - Davis, CA, United States
Dr. Heiner Lieth, Professor / Extension Specialist, Plant Sciences, UC Davis
Dr. Julin Maloof, Professor, Department of Plant Biology, UC Davis
Dr. Melanie Yelton, Director of Research, Lumigrow Inc.
Conference Center, UC Davis - Davis, CA, United States
Featured speaker - Dr. Ian Korf, Associate Professor, Molecular & Cellular Biology, UC Davis - Topic: From bench to keyboard and back: integrating experimental molecular biology and bioinformatics to understand intron-mediated enhancement
During Seed meets Technology Holland shows its seed business. At trial fields and at an exhibition participants demonstrate new seed treatments, coatings, varieties and germination systems. You also experience the newest technologies for seed processing-, drying-, and ...
ARC Ballroom A, UC Davis - Davis, CA, United States
Speakers: Dr. Allen Van Deynze, Research Director, Seed Biotechnology Center; Assistant Director, Plant Breeding Center, UC Davis / Dr. Heather Koshinsky, Director of Research, Eureka Genomics / Dr. Kent S. McKenzie, Director, Rice Experiment Station, California Coopera...
The Genomics in Business Conference is an international conference for executive management, entrepreneurs, start-ups, leading scientists and financial experts from the agro and biotech industry. Platform to discuss trends and developments in the international agro indu...
Speakers: Dr. Edwin Reidel, Business Manager, North America, LemnaTec - Dr. Niels Kruize, LGC Genomics - Dr. Susan Turner, Principal Scientist, BioConsortia
Student Community Center, UC Davis - Davis, CA, United States
4:30 to 7:00 PM - Monthly networking event on the 2nd Thursday of the month, with featured speaker Dr. Charles Bamforth, Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Malting and Brewing Sciences, UC Davis. Topic: Bountiful barley
Plant & Environmental Sciences Building (Room 3001), UC Davis - Davis, CA, United States
Topic: Quest for the "ScienceFinder", a set of tools allowing industry researchers and executives to easily and quickly find UC Davis science and technology that could be of value to their companies.
Conference Center, UC Davis - Davis, CA, United States
4:30 to 7:00 PM - Monthly networking event on the 2nd Thursday of the month, with featured speaker Dr. David Zilberman, Robinson Chair, Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley - Topic: Agricultural Biotechnology: The Promise and the Prospects
Featuring Kent Bradford, UC Davis; Lisa Newman, DuPont Pioneer; Paul Gepts, UC DAvis; Peter Wenzl, CIMMYT; Molly Jahn, University of Wisconsin; and Gary Atlin, Gates Foundation.
UC Davis, Plant & Environmental Sciences Building (Room 3001) - Davis, CA, United States
1:30 to 2:45 pm - Research & technology presentations. Speakers: DR. Hiro Nonogaki, Washington State University - Topic: Gene switches and miRNA to control seed development - Dr. Lindsey du Toit, Washington State University - Topic: Seed borne diseases
University of California Davis, Conference Center - Davis, CA, United States
Monthly networking event with featured speaker Dr. Alan Bennett. Topic: Linking plant genomes to food quality – making a better tomato. 4:30 to 7:00 PM
University of California Davis, Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center - Davis, CA, United States
4:30 to 7:00 PM - Monthly networking event on the 2nd Thursday of the month, with featured speaker Dr. Carl Keen, , Professor of Nutrition & Internal Medicine, UC Davis - Topic: Flavanol-rich foods; an approach to helping maintain good vascular health?
University of California Davis, Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center (5:00 to 7:30 pm) - Davis, CA, United States
Monthly networking event with featured speaker Dr. Luca Comai, Professor, UC Davis Genome Center, Department of Plant Biology, College of Biological Sciences
University of California Davis, Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center (5:00 to 7:30 pm) - Davis, CA, United States
Monthly networking event with featured speaker Dr. Roberta Cook, UC Cooperative Extension Specialist and Lecturer, Food Distribution, Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Marketing
University of California Davis, Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center (5:00 to 7:30 pm) - Davis, CA, United States
Monthly networking event with featured speaker Dr. Florence Negre-Zakharov (webcast at 6:30), Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis - Topic: Investigating fruit volatile metabolism: toward improving crop flavor quality
University of California Davis, Plant & Environmental Sciences Building, Room 3001 (2:00 - 4:45 pm) - Davis, CA, United States
Research & technology presentations - Topic: strategies for using modern genomics in breeding - Speakers: Dr. Richard Michelmore, The Genome Center, UC Davis & Dr. Allen van Deynze, Seed Biotechnology Center, UC Davis
University of California Davis, Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center (5:00 to 7:30 pm) - Davis, CA, United States
Monthly networking event on the 2nd Thursday of the month, with featured speaker Dr. Jorge Dubcovsky, whose research illustrates the power of modern biotechnology approaches in delivering new tools to breeders.
6 one-week sessions in Belgium, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain and California - , United States
The integrated postgraduate program, which is not crop specific, teaches the fundamentals of plant breeding, genetics, and statistics through lectures, discussion, and field trips to public and private breeding programs. Participants attend six 6-day sessions in five co...
The conference program includes oral presentations from leading Scientist in Solanaceae Genetics and Genomics and will cover all aspects of the conventional and modern resistance breeding. The conference creates a forum for exchange of scientific ideas and knowledge bet...
University of California - Davis, California, United States
This two-year course addresses the reduced number of plant breeders being trained in academic programs around the world. The program targets working professionals who desire to become fully trained plant breeders while maintaining their current employment...