5th Annual Soybean Biotechnology Symposium

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center

Sponsored by: National Center for Soybean Biotechnology

Poehlman Lectureship recipient:

Dr. Joseph Burton, USDA-ARS

Professor of Crop Science, Research Agronomist

North Carolina State University

Keynote speakers:

Dr. Wayne Parrott

Professor of Plant Breeding and Genomics

University of Georgia

Dr. Richard Wilson

Oilseeds & Bioscience Consulting

Raleigh, North Carolina

Soybean research offers promising solutions to food, health, and energy concerns worldwide

Participate in the Poster Session!!

All areas of soybean research are welcomed and encouraged.  If interested, please Register, Login and view the poster guidelines to properly submit online. There is no charge for registration. The poster session will take place on April 21, 2009 (see agenda below). 

Please submit an abstract to be printed in the program brochure. (see instructions on the right for your abstract submission and poster presentation) 

Program brochures will be handed out during the Welcome Reception.

Abstract submission deadline: 

April 9, 2009

(any abstracts received after this date will not be

guaranteed to be printed in program brochure)

Schedule of Events:

9:00 – 10:00am        Welcome Reception

                                 Monsanto Auditorium Pre-Function Area(Foyer)               

10:00– 10:30am       Opening Remarks:

                                 Monsanto Auditorium – Life Sciences Center

10:30 – 11:30am     Dr. Richard Wilson

                      Title: Bridging the Gap between R&D and         

                                           Consumer Demand for Soybean Products                                  Monsanto Auditorium – Life Sciences Center

11:45am - 1:30pm   Lunch Break (Invited guests only)

1:30 – 2:30pm          Dr. Wayne Parrott

                                 Title: A Saga of Beans and Bugs: Classical and Genomic                                            approaches to insect resistance in soybean

                                 Monsanto Auditorium – Life Sciences Center   

2:30 - 3:00 pm         Mid-Afternoon Break

                                Monsanto Auditorium Pre-Function Area (Foyer)

3:00 - 4:00pm          Dr. Joseph Burton

                                 Poehlman Lecturer

                                Title: Plant Breeding Solutions to Soybean Seed

                                          Composition Problems             

                                 Monsanto Auditorium – Life Sciences Center  

4:00 - 6:00pm          Closing Reception –

                                 McQuinn Atrium Life Sciences Center

                                 Poster Session -

                                 McQuinn Atrium Life Sciences Center

Further information can be obtained from:

Audrey Clark clarka@missouri.edu