USAA
June 20, 2012

Meeting Title: “Sustaining Life through Plant Improvement”

Registration and hotel links can be found on the NAPB web site. http://www.plantbreeding.org/napb/Meetings/pbccmeeting2012.html

Meeting Sponsor: Dow AgroSciences

Sunday, August 5:

• Student mixer 7‐9 PM at University Place hotel, featuring entertainment by “ComedySportz” of Indianapolis.

Monday, August 6:

• 8 AM: Welcome by Dow
• 8:15 AM to 11:30 AM: NAPB/PBCC business meeting (Rita Mumm and Mike Havey)
• 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM: Lunch
• 12:30 to 5 PM: Speakers on Plant Breeding Education and Capacity Building
  • 12:30 to 1:00 PM: Public sector national leader on Trends, Challenges, and Future Outlook for plant breeding and infrastructure maintenance: Dr. Kay Simmons (USDAARS National Program Staff)
  • 1:00 to 1:30 PM: Private sector seed‐trade leader on Trends, Challenges, and Future Outlook: Speaker from American Seed Trade Association
  • 1:30 to 2:00 PM: Status of plant‐breeding education in Africa: Professor from the Program for Africa's Seeds Systems (PASS)
  • 2:00 to 2:30 PM: Results and recommendations of Delphi survey on plant breeding education. Dr. Fred Bliss (Seminis Seed Company, retired)
  • 2:30 to 3 PM: Break
  • 3 to 3:30 PM: Purdue AFRI Grant with public‐private collaborations. Speaker from Purdue Univ.
  • 3:30 to 4:00 PM: Distance education and web‐based learning. Dr. Jaime Sherman (Montana State Univ.)
  • 4:00 to 4:30 PM: Plant Breeding Academy at UC‐Davis as an example of non‐traditional education. Dr. Allen Van Deynze (UC‐Davis)
  • 4:30 to 5:00 PM: Panel discussion on how to maintain plant breeding education and capacity in a period of declining resources and lack of "mass" at a single university. All speakers will serve on panel
• 5:30 PM: Board buses for “Evening at Dow AgroSciences” banquet
  • Featured Speakers:
    • Rolando Meninato – Seeds Traits & Oils Global Business Leader (Welcome)
    • Dan Kittle – Dow AgroSciences Global R&D Leader
    • Henry Head – Dow AgroSciences Human Resources – Your Career in Plant Breeding and the Human Element

Tuesday, August 7:

• 8 to 11 AM: Research presentations (25 min presentations + 5 min Q&A) by award winners and grad students
  • 8 to 8:30 AM: NAPB/PBCC career award winner: “Tropical Plant Breeding; Harvesting Every Tuesday”, Dr. James Brewbaker (Univ. of Hawaii)
  • 8:30 to 9 AM: “RosBREED: what do we mean by enabling?”, Dr. Amy Iezzoni (Michigan State Univ.)
  • 9 to 9:30 AM: “Marker‐assisted selection in long‐lived perennial crops: applications and limitations”, Dr. Tom Gradziel (UC‐Davis)
  • 9:30 to 11 AM: Break and grad student posters
• 11 AM to 5 PM: Board buses for tour of:
  • Purdue University Farm
  • Dow AgroSciences Fowler Field Breeding Station
• Annual banquet at 7:30 PM at hotel (intro by Don Blackburn) and Dr. Jules Janick (Purdue Univ.) as banquet speaker, “Origins and Future of Fruit Breeding”

Wednesday, August 8:

• 8 AM to noon: Research presentations (25 min presentations + 5 min Q&A)
  • 8 to 8:30 AM: “Sequencing of soybean genome”, Dr. David Hyten (Pioneer Hi‐Bred)
  • 8:30 to 9 AM: “Application of genome sequence to soybean improvement”, Dr. Leah McHale (Ohio State Univ.)
  • 9 to 9:30 AM: "Breeding From First Principles: the USDA‐FS program for hardwood tree improvement", Dr. Keith Woeste (Purdue)
  • 9:30 to 10 AM: Ornamental breeding: “Ornamental Horticulture: More Than Meets The Eye”, Dr. Alan Blowers (Ballhort)
  • 10 to 10:30 AM: Break
  • 10:30 to 12 noon: Selected grad student presentations
• 12 noon: lunch
• 1 to 5 PM Board busses for tour of:
  • AgReliant Genetics breeding station and field breeding labs
  • Beck’s Superior Hybrids breeding station and seed operations plant.
• 5 PM meeting concludes

Registration and hotel links can be found on the NAPB web site. http://www.plantbreeding.org/napb/Meetings/pbccmeeting2012.html

Website: http://www.plantbreeding.org

Published: June 20, 2012