Schedule: Plant Breeding Seminar Series - Spring 2023
Join us every Wednesday from 3-4 pm
Agronomy – Rm 3140
Most seminars are scheduled to be in-person, with the Zoom option. Three seminars will be Zoom only as indicated in the Title/Topic
Seminar starts at 3:00 and extended discussion starts after the seminar.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title/Topic | Host |
| 1-Feb | Rajkumar Zunjare | ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute | Genetic enhancement for nutritional quality and specialty traits in corn through genomics-assisted breeding | Thomas Lubberstedt |
| 1-Feb | Matheus Krause | Iowa State University | Biological insights into soybean breeding with recovered historical yield data | Danny Singh |
| 8-Feb | Jared Crain | Kansas State University | Genomic selection in action: Domesticating intermediate wheatgrass | Jianming Yu |
| 15-Feb | Mike Castellano | Iowa State University | A systems approach to corn and soybean production in the northern Corn Belt: some opportunities for plant breeding | Sotirios Archontoulis |
| 22-Feb | Dave Hyten | University of Nebraska | Mapping and selection for yield stability in soybeans | Jamie O’Rourke |
| 1-Mar | Peggy Ozias-Akins | University of Georgia | Molecular Genetics of Plant Development and Peanuts | Danny Singh |
| 8-Mar | Andres Gordillo | KWS | Hybrid rye breeding (Zoom only) | Thomas Lubberstedt |
| 15-Mar | No seminar | Spring Break (Mar 13 -17) | ||
| 22-Mar | Alain Charcosset | INRAE | Maize Diversity, Quantitative Genetics, and Breeding Methods | Thomas Lubberstedt |
| 29-Mar | Brady Carter | Neutec Group | Flow Cytometer (Zoom only) | Siddique Muhammad-Aboobucker |
| 5-Apr | Jiming Jiang | Michigan State University | Gene Expression and Regulation | Jianming Yu |
| 12-Apr | Vance Whitaker | University of Florida | Strawberry Breeding and Genetics (Zoom only) | Danny Singh |
| 19-Apr | Tyler Foster | Iowa State University | Fine-mapping efforts reduce chromosomal region responsible for qshgd1 in maize | Thomas Lubberstedt |
| 19-Apr | Ashlyn Rairdin | Iowa State University | Deep learning-based phenotyping for genome-wide association studies of complex diseases in soybean | Arti Singh |
| 26-Apr | Anna Locke | USDA-ARS, NCSU | Crop-Environment Interactions | Michelle Graham |
| 3-May | Liza Van de Laan | Iowa State University | Understand the genetic diversity of heat stress tolerance in soybeans | Danny Singh |
| 3-May | Stephen Gray | Iowa State University | Exploring the role of stigmasterol on maize growth and development | Anthony Mahama |
| 3-May | Juan Panelo | Iowa State University | Understanding crop growth genetics in sorghum | Maria Salas-Fernandez |
| 10-May | Nonoy Bandillo | North Dakota State University | Pulse Crop Breeding | Arti Singh |
