2019: Foundations for the Future: Embracing New Agricultural Technology
Feeding the future depends on innovation in agriculture, including new technology, diverse crops, and improvement to classic methods.

Symposium Recordings & Poster Abstracts
Speakers
Topic: Fast-tracking Improvement of Groundcherry and Goldenberry by CRISPR:
Ripening the Potential of Underutilized Fruit Crops
Topic: Forgotten Foods to Feed the Future
Topic: Harnessing the Power of -omic Approaches to Better Understand the Role
of the Inositol Pathway to Ascorbate at Conferring Plants Enhanced
Growth and Resilience to Abiotic Stresses
Topic: Transitioning to Smart Agriculture: Technology Landscape
Topic: Engineering an Alternative Photorespiration Pathway to Improve Photosynthesis and Crop Yield
Topic: Product Development – From Discovery to Orphan Crops Registrations
Student Speakers
Topic: The Effects of Domestication on the Legume-Rhizobia Mutualism
Travel grant recipient
Topic: Hybrid wheat: a promising technology for feeding the future
Travel grant recipient
Topic: Correlating Near-Infrared Spectra of Kernels to Grain Yield in Maize
Travel grant recipient
2018: Diversity in Agriculture
Diversity is inherent to plant breeding, not only in the germplasm and environments we study, but also regarding the people, techniques, and ideas.

Symposium Recordings & Poster Abstracts
Speakers
Topic: Thirty five years of plant biotechnology: Personal reflections and the importance of diversity
Topic: Terraces and Islands: Career Migration in Plant Biology
Debora Menicos Driscoll’s
Topic: Utilizing crop diversity to enhance resistance to insect pests
Topic: Corn domestication: diversity and artistic creativity for science communication
Corteva Agriscience
Topic: Diversity-Variation-Change: Lessons that we can learn from plant breeding
2017: Pioneering Ideas in Agriculture
A unique focus on entrepreneurial endeavors with innovative approaches to agriculture.

Symposium Recordings & Poster Abstracts
Speakers
Topic: Does graduate school produce innovative thinkers?
Topic: Entrepreneurship and Academia: Three case Studies
Topic: Innovation in the private seed industry
Topic: Challenges & Opportunities in Agricultural Start-ups
Topic: Genetic Literacy Project and its role in achieving public scientific literacy related to agricultural biotechnology
Topic: From satellites to sequencing: driving precision agriculture through collaborations and innovation