Speakers

David Bullock
Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
University of Illinois
Using Precision Technology to Conduct On-Farm Research Trials for Data-Intensive Farm Management

Mario Carlone
Research Fellow (Breeding Corn)
Corteva AgriScience
Triumphs and Tribulations of Long-term Germplasm Development
Mario Carlone, Edwin Grote, Eli Rodgers-Melnick and Dave Bubeck

Brian Dilkes
Professor of Biochemistry
Purdue University
Topic: Ionomics and the Integration of Genetics with Other Data Types

Carolyn Lawrence-Dill
Department of Agronomy
Iowa State University
Computing on Phenotypic Descriptions: Making Computers Think Like People

David Habier
Corteva AgriScience
Methodology and Software Innovations
On the Predictability of Genomic Prediction in Plant Breeding

Tiffany Jamann
Department of Crop Sciences
University of Illinois
Conserved Mechanisms of Disease Resistance in Maize Sorghum

Angela Kent
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
University of Illinois
Selecting for Sustainability: Maize Breeding Shapes Microbial Community Structure and Function

Brian Rhodes
Department of Crop Sciences
University of Illinois
Fine Mapping and Mutagenesis of the Nitrate Transporter (NRT1.1/NPF6) Gene Family in Maize

Gary Schnitkey
Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
University of Illinois
Lessons from the 2019 Year

Margaret Smith
School of Integrative Plant Science
Cornell University
Breeding Corn for Organic Systems: Experiences from the Fringe (i.e., not the Corn Belt!)

Bill Tracy
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
University of Wisconsin
Breeding Sweet Corn for Organic Cropping Systems

Daniel Voytas
College of Biological Sciences
Institute for Molecular Virology
Overcoming Bottlenecks in Plant Gene Editing

Jason Wallace
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences
University of Georgia
Genotype-by-Genotype Interactions Between Corn and Microbes