Schedule

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

5:00 PM- 6:30 PM