For a list of daily events, seminars and sessions, please click on any of the day/date headers below.
**NOTICE**
To book a hotel room, please email Abbey Whipple at abbey.whipple@ag.tamu.edu. We have rooms set aside for conference attendees that did not meet the earlier booking deadline.
Monday, April 24 (click to expand)
- 5:00 PM: Registration (Lobby)
- 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM: Welcoming Reception and poster set-up
- 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM: The McFadden Address:
- Dr. Ed Souza, Global Head Wheat Breeding, BASF Corporation
- 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Social hour and poster viewing
Tuesday, April 25 (click to expand)
- 6:30 – 8:00 AM: Breakfast
- 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM: Women in Crop Science Networking
- Heritage 3 Ballroom
- 8:00 AM: Registration
- 8:15 AM: Welcoming Remarks and Overview of Texas A&M AgriLife Wheat Improvement Program
- Dr. Leland Pierson, Interim Associate Director, Texas A&M AgriLife Research
Edgar McFadden Symposium
- 8:30 AM: KEYNOTE – “Accelerating public plant breeding to respond to the demands of more and healthier food”
- Susanne Dreisigacker, Wheat Molecular Breeding Laboratory Head, CIMMYT
- 9:15 AM: “Redefining crop breeding strategy for effective use of nitrogen in major field crops”
- Dr. Ignacio Ciampitti, Kansas State University
- 9:45 AM: Discussion
- 10:00 AM: Coffee Break
- 10:30 AM: “Current Status of Stem Rust”
- Dr. Yue Jin, USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory
- Dr. Matt Rouse, USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory
- 11:00 AM: “Durable host plant resistance and gene stewardship”
- Dr. Bob Bowden, USDA-ARS, Manhattan, KS
- 11:30 AM: “The Challenge of Wheat Stem Sawfly”
- Dr. Jeff Bradshaw, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- Dr. Esten Mason – Colorado State University
- 12:00 PM: Lunch
- 1:30 PM: “Managing Wheat for Plant Health in Changing Environments”
- Dr. Amanda de Olivera Silva, Oklahoma State University
- 2:00 PM: “Economics of Wheat Quality”
- Dr. Cory Walters, Center for Agricultural Profitability, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- 2:30 PM: “Genomics of Utilization of Ancient Relatives”
- Dr. Eduard Akhunov, Kansas State University Dept of Plant Pathology
- Dr. Allan Fritz, Kansas State University Dept of Agronomy
- 3:00 PM: Coffee Break
- 3:30 PM: “Designing a hybrid wheat program in the public sector”
- Dr. Amir Ibrahim, Texas A&M University
- Dr. Katherine Frels, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- 4:00 PM: “Using next-gen sequencing to finding out what viruses we are really facing in the wheat field”
- Dr. John Fellers, USDA-ARS HWWGRU
- 4:30 PM: Flash and Dash (Coordinated by Dr. Shuyu Liu, Texas A&M and Dr. Mary Guttieri, USDA-ARS)
- 5:00 PM: Poster Session (Coordinated by Dr. Shuyu Liu, Texas A&M and Dr. Mary Guttieri, USDA-ARS)
- 6:00 PM: Adjourn
Wednesday, April 26 (click to expand)
Hard Winter Wheat Workers Workshop
- 6:30 AM – 8:00AM: Breakfast
- 8:15 AM: Welcome, Announcements and Awards
- 8:30 AM: “Mixograph Replacement”
- Andrew Green, North Dakota State University
- 9:00 AM: “Options for replacing the Perkin Elmer/Perten Single Kernel Characterization System in breeding and agronomy applications”
- Dan Brabec, USDA-ARS Center for Grain and Animal Health Research, Manhattan, KS
- 9:30 AM: Panel discussion
- Integrating Diversity: Dr. Jackie Rudd, Texas A&M University
- Resiliency: Dr. Sunish Sehgal, South Dakota State University
- 10:30 AM: Break
- 10:45 AM: Hard Winter Wheat Improvement Committee Meeting (Chaired by Dr. Amir Ibrahim, Texas A&M)
- 11:45 AM: Depart for McGregor, TX, lunch provided for attendees
- 2:00 PM: Winter Wheat Breeders’ Field – McGregor, TX and Adjourn
- 4:00 PM: Depart for Hotel