Students in Synapsis, the Plant Breeding graduate student association, organized and hosted the 14th Annual Cornell Corteva Plant Breeding Symposium around the theme, “Maintaining Genetic Diversity: Conserving and Utilizing Wild Relatives of Common Crops.”
The symposium, held April 11 at the Boyce Thompson Institute, featured speakers from across the country — as well as from our own Greg Vogel, assistant professor in the Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, who spoke about his work leveraging wild and vintage tomatoes to improve traits in the new tomato cultivars his program is developing. (View full list of speakers and topics.) The symposium is one of many sponsored by Corteva Agriscience in collaboration with graduate students at leading universities to help them develop leadership and communication skills.
Video of many of the talks will be available soon on the SIPS YouTube channel.
Special thanks go out to the symposium planning committee:
- Bhaswati Sarmah (Chair)
- Bahiya Zahl (Advisor)
- Leah Treffer
- Claire King
- Maura Gallagher
- Henry Dawson
- Tabinda Shahid
