Breakfast and Coffee
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Dr. Adam Davis (Opening remarks)
Professor & Head – Department of Crop Sciences
Dr. Jason Rauscher (Opening remarks)
Academic Relations Manager – Corteva Agriscience
8:30 AM - 8:35 AM
8:35 AM - 8:50 AM
Dr. Wendy Srnic (Corteva speaker)
Vice President, Biotechnology – Corteva Agriscience
8:50 AM - 9:40 AM
Dharani Suresh Babu (Abstract speaker)
“Revolutionizing Cranberry Production: Harnessing Technology for Increased Yield and Sustainable Growth”
9:40 AM - 10:00 AM
Poster session 1 / Coffee break
10:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Dr. Adam Famoso (Keynote Speaker)
“Past, present, and future optimization of the LSU rice variety development program”
10:40 AM - 11:30 AM
Dr. Peter Balint-Kurti
“How does plant quantitative disease resistance work?
A multiple choice question (choose all that apply)”
11:30 AM - 12:20 PM
Lunch break
12:20 PM - 1:20 PM
Dr. Diane Bassham
“Activation of autophagy in response to environmental stress”
1:20 PM - 2:10 PM
Julie Borlaug (Keynote Speaker)
“Mobilizing agriculture”
2:10 PM - 3:00 PM
Poster session 2 / Coffee break
3:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Rachel Combs-Giroir (Abstract speaker)
“Morphological and transcriptomic responses to waterlogging in Pennycress, a new biofuel cover crop”
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Dr. Lee Hickey (Keynote Speaker)
“Speed breeding future crops”
4:00 PM - 4:50 PM
Closing remarks & Awards
4:50 PM - 5:00 PM
Social event
Riggs Beer Company