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Annual Interdepartmental Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Symposium


The PBGB Annual Symposium is a highlight of the year for our graduate students. The symposium features presentations by plant breeding, genetics, and biotechnology researchers and is a chance for students interact with nationally famous researchers. Annual symposium agendas are available for the past several years.
For a list of speakers and descriptions of talks, click on the links below:

2011: Improving Crop Yield in the Genomics Era

2010-2011: Colloquium 2011 Feeding the Future
       Video interview of speakers.
       Graduate Student Blog.

2009: Next Generation Genetics

2008: Breeding for Biomass and Biofuels

2007: Use of Wild Germplasm in Crop Improvement

2006: Transposable Elements and Genome Evolution

2005: Plant Breeding and the Public Sector: Who Will Train Plant
Breeders in the U.S. and around the World?

2005: Crop Improvement for Human Health

2004: Functional and Structural Genomics

2003: Plant Reproductive Development

2002: Abiotic Stress