Academic Speakers:

Jen Sheen, Massachusetts Gerneral Hospital
"The sugar signaling network of plants."

Jeff Dangl, University of North Carolina
"The molecular logic of the plant immune system."

Jiri Friml, Tuebingen University
"Feed back regulation in auxin distribution mediate adaptive
development in plants."

Ton Bisseling Wageningen University
"The legume toolbox controlling nitrogen fixing root nodules."

Maria Harrison, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell Univ.
"Signaling in the AM symbiosis."

Christian Fankhauser, University of Lausanne
“Light-induced signaling events in Arabidopsis: from photoreceptors to transcription factors.”

John Bowman, University of California Davis
"Meristems and patterning in land plants."

Industry Speakers:

DuPont/Pioneer, Anthony Kinney
"Metabolic engineering of fatty acid
metabolism in oilseed plants to improve human health"

Bayer BioScience (Belgium), Marc De Block
"Improving stress tolerance and yield: a genetic and an epigenetic approach"

Kumho Life and Environmental Science Laboratories (Korea), Pill-Soon Song
"Stress- and shade-tolerant crops."

DOW AgroSciences, LLC, Paul Roessler
" Plant oils as feedstocks for the chemical industry"

CombiMatrix
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Allylix, Dr. Joe Chappell
"Using Nature’s Blueprints for the Production of Fine and Specialty Chemicals "

Monsanto, Dr. Steve He
"Cytokinin manipulation for coordinated enhancement of cell prolification and plant development. "

Invitrogen
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