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Monday, May 23, 2011 Morning and Afternoon Schedule

Annenberg Conference Center – Hagler Auditorium unless noted otherwise 8:00 PBCC / NAPB Joint Session – Todd Wehner presiding

Call to order Call for additional agenda items Announcements Nominations for NAPB and PBCC Officers Election of Officers Structure and content of PBCC/NAPB meetings

o Focus on the need to do cutting-edge science o Provide an annual meeting to host national needs grants recipients o Venue, timing and length of meetings, perhaps to accommodate wrap-

around with CSSA, ASHS, etc. NAPB and PBCC: Complementarity, distinctiveness and organization

(See p. 21)

9:00 PBCC General Session – Phil Simon presiding Development of a one-page document on sustaining plant breeding Status of white papers and one-pagers Creation of an intellectual property working group in Grand Challenges Sub. Questions for general discussion

9:20 NAPB General Session – Todd Wehner presiding Establishment of a host for NAPB NAPB Advocacy Questions for general discussion

9:40 Break - Lobby

10:00 Break out session – David Stelly presiding. Meeting rooms (assignments TBD) Hagler Auditorium (1-2 groups); Allen Building rooms #1003,# 1004,# 1005

“Grand Challenges” “Science, Technology, and Informatics” “Awards and Nominations” Combined discussion: “Communications and Outreach” with

“Education and Training of Plant Breeders”

11:15 PBCC / NAPB – Joint Session – Mike Havey presiding Grand Challenges Science, Technology, and Informatics Awards and Nominations Communications and Outreach Education and Training of Plant Breeders

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Voting Instructions – 12:15 Deadline Drop ballot in the ballot box located on the registration table or at the door of the dining room.

12:00 Lunch – Room 1011 B/C

1:00 Welcome – Dr. Bowen Loftin, President – Texas A&M University

1:15 Dr. Joe Bouton – “Breeding and Climate Change”

2:00 PBCC / NAPB Joint Session – Rita Mumm presiding Liaison Reports Need for a survey of NAPB and PBCC members? Call for NAPB logo designs Presentation of 2010 and 2011 awards

2:45 Break - Lobby

3:00 PBCC / NAPB Joint Session – Phil Simon presiding Election Results Call for future meeting hosts Announcement for the 2013 PBCC / NAPB Meeting Announcement for the 2012 PBCC / NAPB Meeting Parting Remarks

3:15 Dr. Yanqi Wu – 2010 NAPB Early Career Awardee– “Breeding and Molecular Research in Bermudagrass and Switchgrass”

4:00 Dr. Jim Myers – “Organic Breeding”

4:45 Adjourn Meeting

Evening Schedule George Bush Presidential Library 5:00 Reception and tours of Presidential Library

Annenberg Conference Center – Room 1011 B/C 6:00 Banquet Buffet

7:00 Dr. Mark Hussey, Vice Chancellor & Dean–Agriculture & Life Sciences Introduction to Texas AgriLife

7:30 Ms. Susan Dworkin, Author, The Viking in the Wheat Field

10:00 Adjourn for the evening

Please seat yourself at your pre-assigned table for the banquet – your Table Number is on the back of your name badge.

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Buses will be available at the end of the program to transport registrants to the following hotels located on University Drive and Texas Avenue:

Comfort Suites Hampton Inn Homewood Suites Econo Lodge Hilton College Station Hyatt Fairfield Inn Holiday Inn Express Residence Inn

Soil and Crop Sciences participants with vehicles, please be available to transport late departures.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011 Morning and Afternoon Schedule Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building Auditorium room 1105 unless noted otherwise 8:00 Set up posters – ILSB Atrium

8:30 Dr. Helen Hambly Odame – “Education Strategies”

9:15 Dr. Rob Hansen – “Intellectual Property Issues”

10:00 Break and View Poster Displays – Atrium

10:30 Dr. Pat Schnable – “The Maize Genome”

11:15 Dr. Ed Buckler – “Genotyping by Sequencing”

12:00 Box Lunch – Atrium

1:00 View Poster Displays

2:00 Dr. Tom Brutnell – “The Maize Transcriptome”

2:45 Dr. Ben Hayes – “The GWS Experience in Dairy Cattle”

3:30 Break and View Poster Displays – Atrium

4:00 Dr. Bill Rooney – “Sorghum Bioenergy Breeding”

4:45 1st Student Speaker – Sarah Battenfield “Improvement in Genetic Yield Potential of Semi-dwarf Wheat in the Great Plains”

5:00 2nd Student Speaker – Yiming Jiang “Highly Efficient Production of Haploid and Doubled Haploid Transgenic Rice via Agrobacterium tumefaciens-Mediated Transformation”

5:15 3rd Student Speaker – Golam Rasul “Evaluation of Pre-harvest Sprouting Traits in Spring Wheat Germplasm using Genotype and Genotype x Environment Model”

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5:30 4th Student Speaker – Shelby Repinski “The Common Bean Growth Habit Gene PVTFL1y is a Functional Homolog of Arabidopsis TFL1”

5:45 Adjourn for evening

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Morning Schedule Heep Center – Room 101 (West Campus of Texas A&M University) 8:00 Intellectual Properties Panel Discussion “Looking Ahead at the Intellectual Property Landscape for Plant Breeding” Panelists Include: Dr. Robert Hanson – SNR Denton – Panel Moderator Dr. Stephen Smith – Pioneer Hybrid International Dr. Peter Schuerman – Office of Technology Commercialization, Texas A&M Dr. Erich E. Veitenheimer – Partner, Cooley LLP 10:30 Adjourn Conference is concluded

Optional Tour Schedule (Wednesday, May 25) Tour Part I – CERES – Bioenergy Breeding

10:30 Check luggage in (unless departing early) – Heep Center, room 103

10:45 Load Buses (if departing early, carry luggage with you)

11:00 Buses depart campus

11:15 CERES – the Energy Crop Company – Bioenergy Breeding

11:50 Beef Pavilion Conference Room – CERES – presentation and lunch

12:30 Buses depart to AgriLife Research Farm Tour Part II – Agronomic Breeding Programs

12:40 On-site choice (walk from bus)

1:15 On-site choice (walk from previous choice)

Choice Options: (choose two) - Sorghum , Dr. Bill Rooney - Wheat, Dr. Amir Ibrahim

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- Perennial grasses-breeding, Dr. Russell Jessup and Forage grasses – genetics, Mr. Byron Burson

- Maize, Dr. Seth Murray

Site location - Each of these sites is within close proximity of each other. Weather Contingency – Remain on buses with on bus talks over each site. 2:00 Buses depart – stop at airport for early flights, then on to Heep Center Tour Part III – Assorted Breeding-related Programs

2:30 Select one of the following three choices:

2:45 1- USDA at F&B Road Cotton: seed processing, lint quality, germplasm – Dr. Richard Percy 2- VFIC at Centeq Building Vegetable & Fruit Improvement Center – Dr. Bhimu Patil 3- Heep Center Grain Quality – Dr. Lloyd Rooney

3:15 1 - USDA bus returns to Heep Center to drop off early departures and pick up participants continuing the tour. The bus will go to the Cuke Greenhouses.

2 - VFIC bus goes to Cuke Greenhouses to drop off participants and then to Heep Center to transport early departures to airport, returning to the Cuke greenhouses.

Tour Part IV – Horticulture Breeding Programs

3:30 Pepper and Melon, Cuke Greenhouses– Dr. Kevin Crosby

4:00 Rose Germplasm & Breeding Greenhouses (behind HFSB) – Dr. David Byrne

4:30 Return to Heep Center

5:00 Vehicle shuttles to hotels and/or airport

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2011 NAPB Conference Registrants

Name Company E-mail Tabare Abadie Pioneer Hi-Bred Intl P. Stephen Baenziger University of Nebraska Ali Bakhsh University of Nebraska David Baltensperger Texas AgriLife Research Michael Baring Texas AgriLife Research Ivan Barrero Farfan Texas A&M University Matt Bartek Texas A&M University Bhoja Basnet Texas A&M University Sarah Battenfield Oklahoma State University David Becker Bayer CropScience Francis Beecher Texas A&M University Dr. P. S. Benepal USDA/NIFA/IYFC John Beuttenmuller UF/IFAS-FL Foundation Seed Producers, Inc. Ben Beyer Texas A&M University Yang Bian North Carolina State University Sumardi Bin Haji Abdul Hamid University Of Nebraska-Lincoln Peter Birks Weyerhaeuser Company Don Blackburn Dow AgroSciences Sterling Blanche LSU AgCenter Stacy Bonos Rutgers University Unaroj Boonprakob Kasetsart University Dustin Borden Texas A&M University Joe Bouton Noble Foundation James Brewbaker University of Hawaii Charlie Brummer The Noble Foundation Tom Brutnell Boyce Thompson Inst/Cornell University Ed Buckler USDA/Cornell University Byron Burson USDA ARS Tom Byram Texas Forest Service - WGFTIP David Byrne Texas A&M University Patrick Byrne Colorado State University Joel Cape Frilot LLC Arron Carter Washington State University Ambika Chandra Texas AgriLife Research Vikram Chhatre Texas A&M University Christopher Chick Texas A&M University Nanyen Chou Bayer Crop Science Delroy Collins Texas A&M University Patrick Conner University of Georgia Eloy Corona Monsanto Chris Cramer New Mexico State University Kevin Crosby Texas A&M University Donn Cummings Monsanto Gerald De La Fuente Texas A&M University Jane Dever Texas AgriLife Research Robert Duncan Texas AgriLife Extension Susan Dworkin Susan Dworkin - Author Jode Edwards USDA _ ARS Ibrahim Elbasyoni UNL Juthamas Fakthongphan UNL Rick Falconer American TAKII, Inc. Francisco Farias Embrapa Terry Felderhoff Texas A&M University

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Name Company E-mail David Francis The Ohio State University Terrence Frett Clemson University Peter Friedemann DOW AgroSciences Ksenija Gasic Clemson University Dennis Genovesi Texas AgriLife - Research Jiqing Gou The Noble Foundation Lj Grauke USDA ARS Kendra Gregory Texas A&M University Ockert Greyvenstein Texas A&M University Steve Hague Texas A&M University Kater Hake Cotton, Incorporated Helen Hambly Odame University of Guelph Michael Hammerman Fluidigm Robert Hanson SNR Denton Chersty Harper Texas AgriLife Research Michael Havey USDA-ARS James Hawk University of Delaware Ben Hayes La Trobe University Lori Hinze USDA-ARS Kevin Hoegenauer Texas A&M University Leo Hoffmann Texas A&M University Trevis Huggins Texas A&M University Amanda Hulse Texas A&M University Babitha Jampala Texas A&M University Shelley Jansky USDA-ARS Rosa Jauregui Texas A&M University Qingzhen Jiang The Noble Foundation Yiming Jiang Bayer CropScience Shumei Jin Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center Don Jones Cotton, Incorporated Kolbyn Joy Texas A&M University Jay Kalous Montana State University Mason Kearns Texas A&M University Carol Kelly Texas AgriLife Research Dong man Khu The Noble Foundation Patricia Klein Texas A&M University Carrie Knott LSU AgCenter Tom Koch AgReliant Genetics, LLC Mike Kolomiets Texas A&M University Neha Kothari Texas A&M University Roy Kreizenbeck Bejo Seeds, Inc Tadele Kumssa University of Nebraska Carol Lange Texas A&M University Sara Larsson Cornell University Cindy Lawley Illumina Elizabeth Lee University of Guelph Ellen Leue PanAmerican Seed Janet Lewis Michigan State University Chunping Li Monsanto Xuehui Li The Noble Foundation Lian Lian University of Minnesota Roy Lillywhite Monrovia Nursery Company Yunhua Liu Texas A&M University Mike Lohuis Monsanto Eliezer Louzada Texas A&M University-Kingsville

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Name Company E-mail Shen Ma North Carolina State University Stevan Madjarac Monsanto Clint Magill Texas A&M University Adam Mahan Texas A&M University Richard Manshardt University of Hawaii at Manoa Laura Masor Texas A&M University Bruce Maunder United Sorghum Checkoff Program Laura Mayor Pioneer HI-Bred International Mitch McGrath USDA-ARS Julie McNabb Issues Ink Ben Meritt Texas A&M University Creighton Miller Texas A&M University Swasti Mishra Michigan State University Karen Moldenhaer U of A Rice Research & Extension Center Maria Monteros The Noble Foundation Daniel Morrow Weyerhaeuser Company Rita Mumm University of Illinois Seth Murray Texas A&M University Jim Myers Oregon State University Pheonah Nabukalu LSU Ag Center John Nelsen Ricetec Liana Nice University of Minnesota Steve Nyikos Douglas Scientific, LLC Somrudee Onto University of Nebraska-Lincoln Juliana Osorio-Marin Texas A&M University Juan M. Osorno North Dakota State University Joshua Parsons University of Wisconsin-Madison Duke Pauli Montana State University Ting Peng University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Richard Percy USDA-ARS Ramasamy Perumal Kansas State University Charles Pick DNA LandMarks Steve Plehn Dow AgroSciences Ostilio Portillo Texas A&M University Jeff Posch Dow AgroScience Sarah Potts University of Illinois Ashima Poudel Texas A&M University Marcelo Queijo Dow AgroSciences Fred Raley Texas Forest Service - WGFTIP Golam Rasul South Dakota University Shelby Repinski University of California - Davis Ray Riley Syngenta Bill Rooney Texas A&M University Malay Saha The Noble Foundation Jose Santa-Cruz North Carolina State University Jodi Scheffler USDA-ARS Douglas Scheuring Texas A&M University Patrick Schnable Iowa State University Qiming Shao Bayer CropScience Jamie Sherman Montana State University Philipp Simon USDA Shree Singh University of Idaho Gerald Smith Texas AgriLife Research Nathan Smith University of Guelph Stephen Smith Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.

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Name Company E-mail Wayne Smith Texas A&M University Thomas Stefaniak Texas A&M University David M. Stelly Texas A&M University Charles Stuber North Carolina State University Yuanjie Su Michigan State University Rodante Tabien Texas AgriLife Research Sean Thompson Texas A&M University Tommy Thompson ARS-USDA Steven Thornton University of Florida Barry Tillman University of Florida Sarah Turner Texas A&M University Jim Uphaus AgReliant Genetics, LLC Allen Van Deynze University of California Erich Veitenheimer Cooley LLP Nancy Wahl NA Stephanie Walker New Mexico State University Ted Wallace Mississippi State University Xinwang Wang Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Yueguang Wang Everglades Research and Education Center Russell Ward University of Nebraska Jacob Washburn Texas A&M University Todd Wehner North Carolina State University Ross Whetten North Carolina State University Kyle Whitmire Texas A&M University Jim Wilborn Texas AgriLife Research Duane Wolf Syngenta Seeds Robert Wright Texas AgriLife Research Yanqi Wu Oklahoma State University Eric Young SAAESD, North Carolina State University John Yu USDA – ARS Neil Yu Michigan State University Junli Zhang University of Idaho Xiuting Zheng Texas A&M University John Zwonitzer DOW AgroSciences

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Organization and activities of the National Association of Plant Breeders (NAPB) and the Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee (PBCC)

NAPB PBCC

Officers and representation

Independent set of officers—Represent all aspects of the national plant breeding community. Note: Chair of PBCC will be part of the NAPB governance structure

Independent set of officers - Represent national plant breeding with a focus on education in the broader sense, including providing information to the public and administrators, and encouraging the development of formal educational opportunities, continuing education, and lifelong learning.

Representatives Retained with PBCC Liaisons Separate Separate Subcommittees Separate Separate Awards Yes No Advocacy Yes No Web site Plantbreeding.org Plantbreeding.com; NIMSS Letterhead, educational and outreach tools developed, press releases

Letter head should be separate for NAPB.

Separate, often the person’s institution

Focus The national state of the plant breeding community in its fullest definition (public, private, NGO).

Effective plant breeding participation and communication in the federal/state partnership, with particular reference to: 1) core competency needs in plant breeding research, extension, and education; and 2) the role and importance of plant breeding for national strategic goals for agriculture and food security.

Annual Meetings Lead organizer of yearly full meeting-broad purview of matters related to plant breeding including advocacy.

Held jointly with the NAPB annual meeting. Will include a business meeting relating to the topics within PBCC mission, which will be open to any interested person.

Funds Separate Separate

Conference Calls Monthly, with PBCC leadership invited

At least one per quarter

Membership Members by request. The PBCC members will consist of the representatives of the SCC-080 committee and others by request.

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