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Mini-Symposium

Next Generation Plant Phenotyping Technologies

Tuesday, May 16, 8:30 am – 12:00 pm, 146 Stocking Hall in Ithaca

• Plant phenotyping is a rapidly emerging multidisciplinary research area.
• It has become ever more urgent to close the gap between genotype and phenotype for improving critical crop traits for addressing food and nutritional security.
• This mini-symposium will feature talks from leading researchers integrating state-of-the-art high-throughput phenotyping technologies for capturing plant traits under controlled and field environments.

Schedule of Events:

8:30 – 8:50    Morning coffee

8:50 – 9:00    Opening remarks by Christine Smart (Interim Director, School of Integrative Plant Science)

9:00 – 9:30          Todd M. DeZwaan (LemnaTec Corporation)

Phenotyping solutions for basic and applied research in plant biology and agriculture

9:30 – 10:00       Argelia Lorence (Department of Chemistry and Physics, Arkansas State University)

Novel phenomic approaches for model and crop plants

10:00 – 10:30      Michael Gore (Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, SIPS, Cornell University)

The great outdoors: the application of field-based phenotyping to improve crop resiliency

10:30 – 11:00    Coffee & snack break

11:00 – 11:30     Chris Topp (Danforth Center)

What’s going on in there: imaging technologies to understand the hidden parts of plants

11:30 – 12:00     Olena Vatamaniuk (Soil and Crop Sciences and Plant Biology Sections, SIPS, Cornell University)

X-ray fluorescent microscopy imaging for studies of mineral nutrient homeostasis

12:30 – 2:00        Speakers’ lunch with SIPS graduate students (Plant Sciences, G22).

                                   RSVP (Lunch only – RSVP not required for symposium attendance) to Tara Reed (tln2@cornell.edu)

Sponsored by the School of Integrative Plant Science and the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity