Meeting Organizers
The faculty host of the 2025 meeting is Professor Andrew Bent, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The meeting is presented under the guidance of the Soybean Genomics Executive Committee
https://www.soybase.org/resources/SoyGEC/soygec.php
Current SoyGEC members are
- Jamie O’Rourke, Chair
- Zenglu Li, Vice-Chair
- Joseph Jedlicka, Secretary
- Xia Li
- Jianxin Ma
- Bing Stacey
- Qijian Song
- David Grant
- Wayne Parrott
- Andrew Bent, Ex-officio
- Rick Lambeth, Ex-officio
The Program Committee and Local Organizing Committee for Soy2025 are currently being formed. Please share meeting suggestions with Andrew Bent at: afbent@wisc.edu.
The inaugural biennial conference on the Molecular & Cellular Biology of the Soybean was held in 1986 at Iowa State University and was hosted by one of the discipline’s all-time leading scientists, USDA soybean geneticist Dr. Randy Shoemaker.
Previous Conference Sites
- 18th: Lincoln, NE (2023)
- 17th: Athens, GA (2018)
- 16th: Columbus, OH (2016)
- 15th: Minneapolis, MN (2014)
- 14th: Des Moines, IA (2012)
- 13th: Durham, NC (2010)
- 12th: Indianapolis, IN (2008)
- 11th: Lincoln, NE (2006)
- 10th: Columbia, MO (2004)
- 9th: Urbana-Champaign, IL (2002)
- 8th: Lexington, KY (2000)
- 7th: Knoxville, TN (1998)
- 6th: Columbia, MO (1996)
- 5th: Athens, GA (1994)
- 4th: Ames, IA (1992)
- 3rd: Ames, IA (1990)
- 2nd: Ames, IA (1988)
- 1st: Ames, IA (1986)