Check-In and Registration
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Opening remarks
Dr. Adam Davis, 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. Daniel Quinn (Assistant Professor, Purdue University)
Corn production systems
9:30 AM-10:10 AM
Graduate Student Speaker 1 - Travel Grant Awardee
Aakriti Adhikari (Graduate Student; Tennessee State University)
10:10 AM - 10:25 AM
Break
10:25 AM - 10:45 AM
Invited Talk
Dr. Samuel B. Fernandes (Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas)
Agricultural Statistics and Quantitative Genetics
10:45 AM - 11:25 AM
Graduate Student Speaker 2 - Travel Grant Awardee
Yizhou Mao (Graduate Student; University of Wisconsin-Madison)
11:25 AM - 11:40 PM
Corteva Speaker
Dr. Clayton Carley (North America Field Experimentation Lead, Corteva Agriscience)
“Teamwork Makes the Dream Work – Cross Disciplinary Value Creation”
11:40 AM - 12:30 PM
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Poster Session
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Graduate Student Speaker
Mandeep Singh (Graduate Student; South Dakota State University)
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Invited Talk
Dr. Charlie Messina (Professor, University of Florida)
Predictive Breeding
3:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Coffee break/Networking
3:40 PM - 4:40 PM
Closing remarks & Awards
4:40 PM - 5:00 PM
PSS Happy Hour
Illini Union