{"id":34,"date":"2024-04-05T20:02:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T20:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conferences.union.wisc.edu\/soy2025\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2025-07-10T00:36:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T00:36:03","slug":"program-info","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/conferences.union.wisc.edu\/soy2025\/program-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Program Info"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Talks will begin on Wednesday July 23 at 4:00pm.\u00a0 You may prefer to arrive earlier and join the tour of UW-Madison\u2019s Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center, starting at 12:30 on Wednesday.\u00a0 WCIC is the largest public plant transformation facility in the United States and continues to build new technologies onto the pioneering legacy of its former existence as the Agracetus\/Monsanto plant transformation facility. See: https:\/\/cropinnovation.cals.wisc.edu\/about-us\/history\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The full conference will continue until 9:00pm on Friday July 25, with Sat. July 26 morning reserved only for special sessions as needed.<\/p>\n

The 2025 meeting will include a greater emphasis on poster presentations and presenters, including an extended Wednesday evening (first-day) poster session with food and beverages, so that attendees can get to know each other right at the beginning of the conference. \u00a0A call for Abstract submissions for poster presentations (and consideration for speaking slots) will go out in January.<\/p>\n

Speakers<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Conference speakers will include nine speakers (any career level) chosen from submitted poster abstracts, and eight 5-minute \u201clightning talk\u201d early-career speakers also chosen from poster abstracts. Program committee is presently filling out the roster of invited speakers. Talks will begin Wednesday mid-afternoon and continue through Friday evening.<\/p>\n

Confirmed Speakers Include:<\/h3>\n
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  • Tom Clemente – University of Nebraska<\/li>\n
  • Marc Libault \u2013 University of Missouri<\/li>\n
  • Melissa Mitchum \u2013 University of Georgia<\/li>\n
  • Jianxin Ma \u2013 Purdue University<\/li>\n
  • Bob Schmitz \u2013 University of Georgia<\/li>\n
  • Wolfgang Busch \u2013 Salk Institute<\/li>\n
  • Kristin Bilyeu \u2013 University of Missouri<\/li>\n
  • Lisa Ainsworth \u2013 University of Illinois<\/li>\n
  • Gary Stacey – University of Missouri<\/li>\n
  • Bob Stupar \u2013 University of Minnesota<\/li>\n
  • Henry Nguyen \u2013 University of Missouri<\/li>\n
  • Jamie O\u2019Rourke \u2013 USDA\/ARS and Iowa State University<\/li>\n
  • Keith Slotkin \u2013 Danforth Center and University of Missouri<\/li>\n
  • Leah McHale \u2013 Ohio State University<\/li>\n
  • Ron Mittler \u2013 University of Missouri<\/li>\n
  • Xuelu Wang \u2013 Henan University<\/li>\n
  • Marlies Wouters – Inari<\/li>\n
  • Qingxin Song – Nanjing Agricultural University<\/li>\n
  • Steve Whitham \u2013 Iowa State University<\/li>\n
  • Khalid Meksem \u2013 Southern Illinois University<\/li>\n
  • Kyung Do Kim – Sejong University<\/li>\n
  • Ray Collier \u2013 Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center (UW-Madison)<\/li>\n
  • Young Cho \u2013 University of Hawaii<\/li>\n
  • Nathan Hancock \u2013 University of South Carolina Aiken<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    The Soy2025 program is currently under development, and will resemble the previous Biennial Molecular & Cellular Biology of the Soybean conferences in topic coverage and format.<\/p>

    The 2025 meeting will include a greater emphasis on poster presentations and presenters, including an extended Wednesday evening (first-day) poster session with food and beverages, so that attendees can get to know each other right at the beginning of the conference. \u00a0A call for Abstract submissions for poster presentations (and consideration for speaking slots) will go out in January.<\/p>

    Speakers<\/strong><\/p>

    Conference speakers will include nine speakers (any career level) chosen from submitted poster abstracts, and eight 5-minute \u201clightning talk\u201d early-career speakers also chosen from poster abstracts. Program committee is presently filling out the roster of invited speakers. Talks will begin Wednesday mid-afternoon and continue through Friday evening.<\/p>

    Confirmed Speakers Include:<\/p>

    Marc Libault \u2013 University of Missouri<\/p>

    Bob Schmitz \u2013 University of Georgia<\/p>

    Melissa Mitchum \u2013 University of Georgia<\/p>

    Ron Mittler \u2013 University of Missouri<\/p>

    Bob Stupar \u2013 University of Minnesota<\/p>

    Lisa Ainsworth \u2013 University of Illinois<\/p>

    Henry Nguyen \u2013 University of Missouri<\/p>

    Jamie O\u2019Rourke \u2013 USDA\/ARS and Iowa State University<\/p>

    Kristin Bilyeu \u2013 University of Missouri<\/p>

    Jianxin Ma \u2013 Purdue University<\/p>

    Keith Slotkin \u2013 Danforth Center and University of Missouri<\/p>

    Wolfgang Busch \u2013 Salk Institute<\/p>

    Leah McHale \u2013 Ohio State University<\/p>

    \u00a0<\/p>

    Session titles for oral sessions at the previous two meetings have included:<\/strong><\/p>

    Pests & Diseases
    Abiotic Stress
    Symbiosis & Phytobiome
    Composition & Nutrition
    Functional Genomics
    Breeding & Genomics
    Biotechnology & Genome Editing
    Genome Biology
    Integrative Genomics
    Biotic Interaction
    Genetics\/Breeding for Output Traits
    Proteomics\/Metabolomics
    Genomics\/Transcriptomics
    Breeding\/Genetics for Yield\/Protection of Yield
    Genetic Engineering
    Soybase Workshop<\/p>

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