Associate chair Susan Brown will speak on “Apples: From Johnny Appleseed to Genomics” at a day-long symposium, Wild and Forgotten: Conservation, Characterization, and Utilization of Orphan Crops and Wild Relatives. The event is sponsored by Synapsis (the Plant Breeding and Genetics grad student organization) and Pioneer Hi-Bred.
Friday April 13, 2012
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM EST
102 Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca NY.
Overflow seating available in 100 Mann Library.
If you can’t attend in person, the program will also be livestreamed. More information.
Other speakers include:
- David Bonnett, Senior Scientist in Germplasm Resources at CIMMYT in Texcoco, Mexico:“Harnessing Diversity for wheat improvement”
- Paul Gepts, Professor of Plant Sciences at University of California in Davis, CA:“Closing the domestication triangle: The role of humans in the on-farm management of crop biodiversity”
- Jeff Maughan, Professor of Genetics and Genomics at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT:“Genetic resources for orphaned crops of Central and South American”
- Susan McCouch, Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY:“Capturing positive transgressive variation in rice from wild and exotic germplasm”
- Dean Podlich, Research Scientist at Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. in Johnston, Iowa:“Insights into Pioneer’s corn germplasm pipline”