Breakfast and Coffee
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Opening remarks
Dr. Adam Davis, Department of Crop Sciences
Opening remarks
Dr. Tabare Abadie, Corteva Agriscience
8:30 AM - 8:35 AM
8:35 AM - 8:50 AM
Dr. Tracy Leskey
Developing behaviorally-based monitoring and management tools for the invasive brown marmorated stink bug and their compatibility with biological control agents
8:50 AM - 9:30 AM
Dr. Tara Tarnowski
Harnessing big data for commercial plant breeding
9:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Coffee break
10:10 AM - 10:40 AM
Dr. Brian Diers
Improving resistance in soybean to soybean cyst nematode through genetic research
10:40 AM - 11:20 AM
Dr. Mitch Tuinstra
Prussic Acid Free Sorghum: A multi-omics approach to develop a new end-use quality trait in sorghum
11:20 AM - 12:00 PM
Lunch break
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Student Speaker 1: Manwinder Singh Brar
Comparative metabolome analysis identified the role of naringenin chalcone in delaying leaf senescence in maize
1:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Student Speaker 2: Satinderpal Kaur
Can Nitrogen application help mitigate flooding stress response in maize plants by influencing plant growth and plant- insect interactions?
1:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Student Speaker 3: Swas Kaushal
Deep Transfer Learning for Winter Wheat Yield Prediction Using UAV-derived Spectral and Textural Indices Across Temporal and Spatial Domains
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Announcements/Break
1:45 PM - 1:55 PM
Poster session
1:55 PM - 3:25 PM
Coffee break/Networking
3:25 PM - 4:30 PM
Closing remarks & Awards
4:30 PM - 4:50 PM
Social event
Riggs Beer Company