FRIDAY, November 1

Morning - MSU Union Lake Huron Room

Session I - Medicinal applications

Chair: Emily Lanier

Start	Speaker	Topic
9:00	David DeWitt Sr. Associate Dean	Welcome Remarks
9:05	Jason Slot The Ohio State University	Leveraging fungal evolution for discovery of neuroactive compound metabolic pathways
9:40	Vincenzo DeLuca Brock University	Elucidation of natural product biosynthesis in plants
10:15	Coffee Break (Lake Erie Room)

Session II -  Plant nutrition

 Chair: Jeremy Pardo

Start	Speaker	Topic
10:45	Mary Ann Lila North Carolina State University	If food is our medicine, then why aren't we all healthy?
11:20	Hideki Takahashi Michigan State University	Nitrogen-responsive small signaling peptides modulate root system architecture
11:45	Mary Lou Guerinot Dartmouth	Micronutrient Dynamics: From the Soil to the Seed
12:20	Lunch (Lake Erie Room)

Afternoon - MSU Union Lake Huron Room

Session III -  Sustainability

Chair: Emily Jennings

Start	Speaker	Topic
1:20	Shawna Rowe (STUDENT, RESEARCH)  PLB, MSU	How to study nutrient exchange between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
1:35	James Kremer AgBiome	Microbiome Technology - Discovery and Development of Microbial Products and Crop Protection Traits
2:10	Jeremy Pardo (STUDENT, INTERNSHIP) PLB, MSU	Internship: Inari Agriculture
2:25	Clay Carter University of Minnesota	Nectar chemistry at the nexus of plant-biotic interactions
3:00	Coffee Break (Lake Erie Room)

Session IV - Plants and Security

Chair: Leah Johnson

Start	Speaker	Topic
3:30	June Medford Colorado State University	Using Synthetic Biology to Produce New Plant Traits
4:05	Genevieve Hoopes (STUDENT, INTERNSHIP) PLB, MSU	Internship: Simplot
4:20	Adam Seroka (STUDENT, RESEARCH) PLB, MSU	Turning up the heat on plant immunity in Arabidopsis
4:35	Blake Bextine Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)	Leveraging Biology for National Security
5:10	Alan McClain (STUDENT) Michigan State University	Closing Remarks

5:30-6:50 Poster Sessions I & II, Lake Erie Room, MSU Union

6:50 Dinner, Ballroom, MSU Union

 

SATURDAY, November 2

1200 Molecular Plant Sciences

Careers in Biotechnology-Related Fields

Chair: Genevieve Hoopes

Start	Speaker
9:00	Genevieve Hoopes	Welcome Remarks
9:05	Rob Horsch Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	There and back again: being with the question
9:40	Panel I  Chair: Levi Bauer	James Kremer Cait Thireault   Christy Gault
10:15	Kerry Rouhier Kenyon College	Academic careers at primarily undergraduate institutions
10:50	Coffee break (MPS 1200)
11:05	Panel II Chair: Shawna Rowe	June Medford Rob Horsch Vincenzo DeLuca
11:40	Christy Gault Inari Agriculture	Reflections on my move from academia to a startup
12:15	Rob Last Michigan State University	Closing Remarks