Thursday, August 10

TimeEvent
3 pm Poster set-ups can proceed
3:30 pm Workshop (Science Communications?)
5:30 pm Welcome/Opening Remarks
5:45 pm Plenary Speaker
6:30 pm Awards (SoyGec Rep)
7 pm Opening Reception/Dinner on your own

Friday, August 11

TimeEvent
8 am Biotic Interaction Session 1 – Melissa Mitchum, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia
8:10 am Adam Steinbrenner
8:40 am Speaker
9:10 am Speaker
9:40 am Speaker
10:10 am Coffee Break
10:30 am Genetic/Breeding for Output Traits – Felix Fritschi, College of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources, University of Missouri
10:35 am Speaker
11:05 am Speaker
11:35 am Speaker
12:05 pm Speaker
12:35 pm Lunch
1:35 pm Proteomics/Metabolomics – Doug Allen, USDA-ARS and Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, and Michaela McGinn, Smithbucklin
1:40 pm Speaker
2:10 pm Speaker
2:30 pm Speaker
3:00 pm Speaker
3:30 pm Coffee break
4:00 pm Genomics/Transcriptomics – Jason Nichols, Principal Scientist, Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC
4:05 pm Zhixi Tian – Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
4:35 pm Gary Stacy – Curator's Professor, Divisions of Plant Science and Biochemistry, University of Missouri
5:05 pm Hilde Nelissen – Group Leader, VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology
5:35 pm Speaker
6:05 pm Poster viewing/Social
6:35 pm Plenary Speaker
7:20 pm Dinner on your own/Poster/Social

Saturday, August 12

TimeEvent
7:45 am Registration desk opens
8 am Breeding/Genetics for Yield/Protection of Yield – Carrie Miranda, NDSU
8:05 am Leah McHal – The Ohio State University
8:35 am Natalia de Leon – University of Wisconsin
9:05 am

Kyle Kocak – Corteva

9:35 am Speaker
10:05 am Coffee break
10:35 am Biotic Interaction Session 2 – Andrew Bent, Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agricultural & Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin–Madison
10:40 am Speaker
11:10 am Speaker
11:40 am Speaker
12:10 pm Speaker
12:35 pm Lunch
1:35 pm Genetic engineering – Robert Stupar, Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota
1:40 pm Speaker
2:10 pm Speaker
2:40 pm Speaker
3:10 pm Speaker
3:40 pm Coffee break
4:10 pm Opportunities in advancing genetic and genomic translations in soybean biology – Henry Nguyen, College of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources, University of Missouri
Introduction: Soybean is a model (5 minutes)
4:15 pm Speaker
4:45 pm Speaker
5:15 pm Speaker
5:45 pm Speaker
6:30 pm Plenary Speaker
7:15 pm Social/poster viewing
7:45 pm Conference dinner
8:45 pm Social/on your own/poster awards

Sunday, August 13

TimeEvent
9 am SoyGEC Report
10 am Closing remarks