8:00-8:10 am
Welcome/ Instructions
Functional and Translational Genomics
8:15-8:35am
Wild soybeans meet systems biology---Understanding complex trait variations for crop improvement
Bao-Hua Song, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
8:35-8:55 am
Roots to Seeds: Gene Discovery and Precision Breeding by Genome Editing
Yuefeng Guan, Fujian A&F University
8:55-9:15 am
Combining Fast Neutron and CRISPR/Cas9 mutagenesis to facilitate gene discovery in soybean
Bing Stacey, University of Missouri
9:15-9:30 am
Developing activation tagging resources for soybean gene discovery
C. Nathan Hancock , University of South Carolina- Aiken
9:35-9:55 am
A giant NLR gene confers broad-spectrum resistance to Phytophthora sojae in soybean
Weidong Wang , Purdue University
9:55-10:15 am
Investigating the functions of a soybean rust effector protease that suppresses host immunity
Steven Whitham, Iowa State University
10:30-10:50 am
Possible epigenetic controls of salt responses in soybean (Note: Session is 11:25 pm - 1:10 am in Hong Kong)
Hon Ming Lam, Chinese University of Hong Kong
10:50-11:10 am
Studying IDC in Soybean: Turning the Model Right Side Up
Michelle Graham, USDA-ARS, Iowa
11:10-11:30 am
Impacts of Tropospheric Ozone on Soybean Roots
Ripley Tisdale, USDA-ARS, Raleigh
11:30-11:50 am
Manipulating Growth Temperatures Under Field Conditions to Understand and Alter Crop Responses to Global Warming
Carl Bernacchi, University of Illinois
11:50-12:10 pm
Defining the genetic architecture of soybean drought tolerance and enabling pre-breeding for enhanced germplasm
Jason Gillman, USDA-ARS, Missouri
12:10-1:00 pm
Break for Lunch
1:05-1:25 pm
Linking signal perception at the plasma membrane to intracellular events during soybean nodule formation-roles of heterotrimeric G-proteins
Sona Pandey, Danforth Center
1:25-1:45 pm
The roles of rhizobial exopolysaccharides in legume symbiosis: Contrasts in indeterminate- and determinate-nodule-forming hosts
Kathryn (Kay) Jones, Florida State University
1:45-2:05 pm
Bacteriophages add a new dimension to Bradyrhizobium diversity and ecology
Jeffrey Fuhrmann, University of Delaware
2:05-2:25 pm
Use of high resolution functional genomic tools to investigate the soybean-Bradyrhizobium nitrogen fixing symbiosis
Gary Stacey, University of Missouri
2:25-2:45 pm
Evaluation of a novel drought-tolerant N-fixing inoculant on soybean yield and its effect on the rhizosphere microbiome
Woo-Suk Chang, University of Texas, Arlington
8:00-8:10 am
Welcome/ Instructions
8:15-8:35 am
Helping plants deal with soybean aphids: A critical but underestimated role of stems
Vamsi Nalam, Colorado State University
8:35-8:55 am
Synergistic transcriptomic effects of pyramiding Rag1 and Rag2 aphid resistance genes
Martha Natukunda, Augustana University
8:55-9:15 am
Impacts of Plant Elicitor Peptides and Bacillus subtilis on nematode infection on soybean
Fiona Goggin, University of Arkansas
9:15-9:35 am
A Bacillus thuringiensis Cry protein controls soybean cyst nematode in transgenic soybean plants
Julia Daum, BASF
9:35-9:55 am
A Phakopsora pachyrhizi effector suppresses PTI and interacts with a soybean Endo-1,3- β -glucosidase to promote virulence.
Francismar Corrêa Marcelino-Guimaraes , Embrapa Soja (Brazil)
10:10-10:30 am
Graph-based pan genome analyses in soybean
Zhixi Tian, Chinese Academy of Sciences
10:30-10:50 am
Improving soybean seed composition using induced mutations
Khalid Meksem, Southern Illinois University
10:50-11:10 am
Altering carbon partitioning over development to improve soybean composition
Thiya Mukherjee, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
11:10-11:30 am
Dry Beans for Flour Ingredient Applications
Karen Cichy, USDA-ARS, MI
11:30-11:50 am
Structural genome variation and protein:oil ratio
Matthew Hudson, University of Illinois
11:50-1:00 pm
Break for Lunch
1:05-1:25 pm
Experiences with using novel genetic diversity in soybean breeding
Brian Diers, University of Illinois
1:25-1:45pm
Breeding by design
Kristin Bilyeu, USDA-ARS
1:45-2:05 pm
Soybean longitudinal biomass accumulation and applications to selection for yield and resilience
Katy Martin Rainey, Purdue University
2:05-2:25 pm
Genomics-enabled soybean improvement
Mark Miller, University of Georgia
2:40-3:00 pm
A soybean single-cell resolution transcriptome atlas to reveal gene function in a cell-type-specific manner
Marc Libault, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
3:00-3:40 pm
Using Malic Enzyme to Short Circuit Carbon Partitioning in Soybeans
Stewart Morley, Danforth Center
3:20-3:40 pm
Decoding protein rebalancing in soybean with genome editing
Ritesh Kumar, University of Minnesota
3:40-4:00 pm
Determining Regulatory Elements for Canopy-Specific Gene Expression in Soy
Laurie B Leonelli, University of Illinois
4:00-4:20 pm
Incorporating crop quality into crop growth models.
Justin McGrath , USDA-ARS, Illinois
4:20-4:45 pm
Closing Remarks
Poster Winners