Check-In and Registration
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Opening remarks
Dr. Patrick Tranel, Associate Head, Department of Crop Sciences
Opening remarks
Dr. Jason Rauscher, Academic Relations Manager, Corteva Agriscience
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
9:10 AM - 9:30 AM
Invited Talk
Dr. Leonardo Bastos (University of Georgia)
9:30 AM-10:10 AM
Invited Talk
Dr. Rachel Cott (Kansas State University)
10:10 AM - 10:50 AM
Break
10:50 AM - 11:00 AM
Invited Talk
Dr. Diego Jarquin (University of Florida)
Predictive Framework
11:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Corteva Speaker
Dr. Piero Barone (Corteva Agriscience)
Pioneering Agriculture Innovation: Genome Editing and the Future of Crop Improvement
11:40 AM - 12:20 PM
Lunch break
12:20 PM - 1:20 PM
Poster session
1:20 PM - 2:30 PM
Break
2:30 PM - 2: 40 PM
Graduate Student Speaker 1
Olanrewaju Adeyemi (Utah State University)
Survey and Dose – Response Reveals Glyphosate – Resistant Kochia (Bassia scoparia) in Utah After 27 – Year Gap — A Wake – Up Call for the Broader U.S. Agricultural Landscape
2:40 PM - 2:55 PM
Graduate Student Speaker 2
Mainak Dutta (University of Illinois)
Temporal and Spatial Metabolomic Profiling of Pumpkin Fruit in Response to Phytophthora capsici Infection
2:55 PM - 3:10 PM
Graduate Student Speaker 3
Komal Mahajan (South Dakota State University)
Machine Learning and UAV Multispectral Imagery for High-Throughput Oat Biomass Estimation
3:10 PM - 3:25 PM
Coffee break/Networking
3:25 PM - 4:40 PM
Closing remarks & Awards
4:40 PM - 4:50 PM
Social event: Reception
Illini Union