Speakers

Speakers for 2023 Meeting 

 

Keynote Speakers 

Pollen-Pistil Interaction: a long and winding road to fertilization
Alice Cheung
Professor
University of Massachusetts
https://gpls.cns.umass.edu/pb/directory/alice-cheung

 Engineering plant genome to advance human health – affordable drugs for increased global access
Henry Daniell
Vice Chair and W.D. Miller Professor
University of Pennsylvania
https://www.dental.upenn.edu/faculty/henry-daniell/

 

Session speakers

CRISPR/Cas Genome Editing for Rice Functional Genomics and Trait improvement
Yinong Yang
Professor
Pennsylvania State University
https://plantpath.psu.edu/directory/yuy3

 Nourish the population with nutritionally enhanced, healthier, safer wheat and peanuts
Sachin Rustgi
Assistant Prof.
Clemson University
https://sites.google.com/g.clemson.edu/rustgilab

 Auxin biosynthesis: a geneticist’s perspective
Anna Stepanova
Associate Prof.
North Carolina State University
https://cals.ncsu.edu/plant-and-microbial-biology/people/atstepan/

Diverse EPF signals regulate stomatal development
Xingyun Qi
Assistant Professor
Rutgers Camden
https://qi.camden.rutgers.edu/

 Diverse mobile genetic elements shaped phytopathogenicity of Streptomyces
Christopher Clarke
Research Plant Pathologist
USDA-ARS at Beltsville
https://www.ars.usda.gov/northeast-area/beltsville-md-barc/beltsville-agricultural-research-center/genetic-improvement-for-fruits-vegetables-laboratory/people/christopher-clarke/

 Breaking down nonhost resistance to understand plant immunity
Shunyuan Xiao
Professor
University of Maryland
https://agnr.umd.edu/about/directory/shunyuan-xiao

 The Nucleo-cytoplasmic Function of Actin Depolymerization Factors (ADF) in Plant Immunity
Pai Li
Postdoc
Michigan State University

Evolution by co-option and convergence in the carnivorous plants
Tanya Renner
Assistant Prof.
Pennsylvania State University
https://ento.psu.edu/directory/tur158

Crosstalk between mutualistic and parasitic endosymbionts on the same host plant
Corlett Wood
Assistant Prof
Pennsylvania State University
https://www.bio.upenn.edu/people/corlett-wood

Engineering rhizobacteria for biosynthesis of plant effectors and for containment
Aditya Kunjapur
Assistant Professor
University of Delaware
https://cbe.udel.edu/people/faculty/kunjapur/

 Populus protoplast experimental system enables systematic characterization of bHLH transcription factors
Meng Xie
Staff Scientist
Brookhaven National Laboratory
https://www.bnl.gov/staff/mxie