2022 PBGG Annual Retreat
Agenda
Wednesday, May 25
| 12:00 pm | Registration/Poster Setup Villas by the Sea Conference Center |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch Retreat-Dungeness Room at the Conference Center |
| 1:30 pm | UGA Graduate Programs Ron Walcott, Vice Provost for Graduate Education & Dean of the Graduate School Wildhorn-Hopeton Rooms |
| 2:00 pm | Northern Wild Rice, a North American Grain with Ecological, Cultural, and Agricultural Significance in the Upper Midwest Jennifer Kimball, University of Minnesota Wildhorn-Hopeton Rooms |
| 2:40 - 3:00 pm | Break |
| 3:00 pm | Student Professional Development Breakout Scott Jackson and Amy Kelly, Bayer Wildhorn-Hopeton Rooms |
| Faculty "Futuring" Breakout Retreat-Dungeness Room |
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| 5:00 pm | Soybean Translational Genomics: from Basic Findings to Applications Jianxin Ma, Purdue University Wildhorn-Hopeton Rooms |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner Retreat-Dungeness Room at the Conference Center |
| 6:45 - 9:00 pm | Poster Session and Reception Prefunction Hallway at the Conference Center |
Thursday, May 26
| 7:00 am | Fun Run Meet in front of the hotel/front desk lobby |
| 8:30 am | Breakfast Retreat-Dungeness Room at the Conference Center |
| 9:00 am | IPBGG Graduate Program Update Esther van der Knaap |
| 9:30 am | How You Can Prevent Intellectual Property Problems Shelley Fincher Senior Licensing Manager, Innovation Gateway, UGA |
| 9:50 am | John Ingle Awardee Presentation Design and Implementation of a Seed Drilling Device to Support Marker-Assisted Soybean Breeding Sam McDonald |
| 10:10 am | John Ingle Awardee Presentation Identification and Characterization of Novel Loci Underlying Fruit Weight and Flavor Volatiles in Tomato Manoj Sapkota |
| 10:30 - 10:50 am | Break |
| 10:50 am | Plant Habitat 05: Plant Somatic Regeneration in Space - A New Frontier Chris Saski, Clemson University Wildhorn-Hopeton Rooms |
| 11:30 am | Pan-genome of Wild and Cultivated Watermelons Shan Wu, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University Wildhorn-Hopeton Rooms |
| 12:10 pm | Lunch Retreat-Dungeness Room at the Conference Center |
| 1:00 pm | Free time/Group Activities Meet in front of the hotel/front desk lobby |
| 3:00 pm | Graduate Faculty Meeting Wildhorn-Hopeton Room |
| 4:30 pm | General Faculty Meeting Wildhorn-Hopeton Room |
| 4:30 pm | Students: GSA Meeting and Elections Retreat-Dungeness Room |
| 6:00 pm | A Career In Fruit Breeding: Opportunities, Strategies and Successes John Clark, University of Arkansas Wildhorn-Hopeton Rooms |
| 7:00 pm | Dinner, Poster Awards and Entertainment Retreat-Dungeness Room at the Conference Center |