Program | 2019 National Association of Plant Breeders Annual Meeting

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Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019

9 a.m.-3 p.m. – Soft skills workshop hosted by Bayer and Corteva
1 p.m.-5 p.m. – PBCC committee meeting
NIFA poster session (open to all)
- - Session Chair: Pushpa Kathir, Program Specialist; NIFA Includes NIFA grantsmanship table w/handouts
  - 2:30 p.m. – Poster setup
  - 3 p.m.-5 p.m. – Posters
    - 3 p.m.-4 p.m. – Even #
    - 4 p.m.-5 p.m. – Odd #
5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. – Opening session

: Peggy Ozias-Akins, NAPB2019 Welcome

: Sam Pardue, Dean, College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences

: Gary Black, Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture

: Todd Campbell, NAPB – Welcome and PBCC connection

: Ksenija Gasic – PBCC Report

6:30 p.m. – Opening Keynote

: Jeff Bennetzen, University of Georgia – Sources of Genetic Variation in Breeding Materials, and How It Might Be Enhanced

7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. – Opening reception

Monday, Aug. 26, 2019

7 a.m.-8:30 a.m. – Borlaug Scholar breakfast (awardees and mentors); Diversity Travel Awardee breakfast (awardees and mentors)
8:30 a.m.-10 a.m. – NIFA Plant Breeding Project Director Presentations

: Session Chair: Ed Kaleikau, NIFA

: Scott Angle, Director NIFA – Opening remarks

: Soraya Bertioli, University of Georgia – Unlocking Novel Wild Alleles in Cultivated Peanut to Increase Disease Resistance and Productivity

: Zachary Lippman, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory – Merging Breeding and Gene Editing: Lessons from Tomato

: George Kantor, Carnegie Mellon University – Robotic Field Measurements for Plant Breeding and Crop Management

: Allen Van Deynze, University of California Davis – Breeding for Food Safety, Current Status

10 a.m.-10:20 a.m. – Break
10:20 a.m.-noon – NIFA Plant Breeding Project Director Presentations, cont.; Session Chair: Liang-Shiou Lin, NIFA

: Session Chair: Liang-Shiou Lin, NIFA

: Seth Murray, Texas A&M University – Transdisciplinary Plant Phenomics and Unmanned Aerial System Phenotyping for Maize Crop Improvement

: Julie Dawson, University of Wisconsin – Facilitating the Increased Use of Genetic Resources: Custom Core Collections and Genomic Prediction With Carrot as a Model Crop

: Xiwen Cai, North Dakota State University – Genomics-enabled Chromosome Engineering for Alien Introgression and Genome Characterization in Wheat

: Dusti Gallagher, Heartland Plant Innovations – Establishment of a Winter Wheat Organic Breeding Pipeline in the Great Plains

: Karen Cichy, USDA-ARS Bean Breeding – Optimizing the Convenience, Nutrition, and Taste of Yellow Dry Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) to Promote Pulse Consumption in the U.S.

Noon – 12:30 p.m. – Break and pick up box lunch to board buses for Griffin Campus
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. – Travel to Griffin Campus
1:30 p.m.-8 p.m. – Griffin Campus Tour (UGA and USDA-ARS breeding programs) and dinner at Barnstormer’s Grill

Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019

8 a.m.-10 a.m. – Plenary session and lightning talks

: Marlin Edwards, retired plant breeder and consultant – Plant Breeding: A Lifetime Passion

: Graduate student lightning talks (15 min)

: Scott Jackson, University of Georgia – The Application of Machine Learning to Trait Prediction and the Underlying Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits

: Graduate student lightning talks (15 min)

10 a.m.-10:30 a.m. – Break
10:30 a.m.-noon – Posters (Loblolly/Loblolly prefunction/Cypress)
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. – Lunch
1 p.m.-3 p.m. – General session, Plant Breeding Innovations

: Fredy Altpeter, University of Florida – Editing the Complex Sugarcane Genome

: Fenggao Dong, Bayer – Doubled Haploid Technology and Utilization in Plant Breeding

: Marissa Simon, Corteva – Achieving Apomixis in Sorghum

: Charlie Li, University of Georgia – Robot-assisted and Machine Learning-enabled In-field High Throughput Plant Phenotyping

: Katrien Devos, University of Georgia – Trait Mapping in Non-model Crops: Challenges and Successes

: Khushi Goda, North Carolina State University – Optimal mating in Pinus taeda

3 p.m.-3:30 p.m. – Break
3:30 p.m.-5:10 p.m. – General session, Plant Breeding Perspectives

: Susan Mayne, FDA – FDA’s Role in Supporting Plant Biotechnology Including Genome Editing

: Roger Boerma, Georgia Seed Development, GICRS – Bringing UGA-Developed Varieties into the Marketplace

: Wayne Hanna, University of Georgia – Don’t Forget to Follow and Complete the Scientific Process

: Qi Mu, Iowa State University – Exploring plant height plasticity observed in natural field environments

Evening – Graduate student social (garden tour, cookout) and dinner on your own followed by entertainment in the lounge, featuring Cotton Bird.

Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019

8 a.m.-10 a.m. – General session, Awardee Presentations and lightning talks

: Shawn Kaeppler, Lifetime Achievement Awardee 2018, University of Wisconsin – Breeding for Future Food Systems

: Donald Bockelman, Plant Breeding Impact Awardee 2018 – Reflections on 38 Years of Corn Breeding and Diversity

: Graduate student lightning talks (15 min)

: Jeffrey Endelman, Early Career Awardee 2018, University of Wisconsin – Genomics-Assisted Breeding in Potato

: Nathan Taitano, University of Georgia – Exploring a shared organ shape regulatory network in three solanaceous crops

10 a.m.-10:30 a.m. – Break
10:30 a.m.-noon – Posters
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. – Lunch
1 p.m.-3 p.m. – General session, Breeding Specialty Crops

: Shelley Jansky, USDA-ARS – My Mother Is Also My Father – Tales of Inbreeding and Redemption Through the Eyes of a Potato

: Michael Mazourek, Cornell University and Row 7 Seed Co. – Breeding for Flavor: Field and Kitchen Co-Selection

: John Ruter, University of Georgia – Herbaceous Ornamental Plant Breeding at UGA

: Patrick Conner, University of Georgia – Pecan Tree Breeding at the University of Georgia

: Ksenija Gasic, Clemson University – Starting from Scratch: 10 Years of Peach Breeding Program at Clemson University

: Sarah Kostick, Washington State University – Identifying fire blight resistance/susceptibility loci in apple for breeding use

3 p.m.-3:15 p.m. Break
3:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m. – General session, Advances in Field Crop Breeding and Genetics

: Michael Casler, USDA-ARS – Design Optimization in Field Experiments

: Jenny Koebernick, Auburn University – Importance and impact of cotton breeding in the U.S.

: David Bertioli, University of Georgia – The Peculiar Genetics of Peanut – Breeding with a Segmental Allotetraploid

4:15 p.m.-4:30 p.m. – Break
4:30 p.m.-6 p.m. – NAPB Breakout Sessions and General Meeting
6 p.m.-7 p.m. – Social hour
7 p.m.-9 p.m. – Banquet and award presentations

Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019

8 a.m.-8 p.m. – Depart Callaway Gardens for post-meeting tour to Plains and Tifton (University of Georgia and USDA-ARS breeding programs); dinner at Blackshank Farm

Join us on the Plains/Tifton Tour to learn about the University of Georgia and USDA-ARS breeding programs for peanut, cotton, soybeans, muscadine grape, citrus, turf and forage grasses along with the associated seed system that brings new cultivars to market. A bit of history will be interspersed with the science with a visit to the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site in Plains and the newly reconstructed Centennial Garden on the UGA Tifton campus. Tour fee includes transportation, lunch/dinner, return to ATL on 30 Aug. See the Accommodations page for information on Tifton lodging.