Participation: Contact Information: Interdepartmental Graduate Program in The symposium is open to MSU faculty, staff, Dr. Guo-Qing Song Plant Breeding, Genetics & Biotechnology graduate students and undergraduates, as well Faculty Advisor as members of neighboring institutions and the [email protected] Symposium 2014 community. There is no registration fee or 355-5191 (Ex. 1384) requirement for preregistration. Dr. David Douches Faculty Advisor

Director - Plant Breeding, Genetics and Poster Session: Biotechnology Program A poster session and open reception for the [email protected] speakers will immediately follow the talks in the 355-0271 ext. 1198 MPS atrium. Light refreshments will be served. Schedule: Those who wish to present a research poster 9:00 – 9:10 (4'X 4') are invited to do so. Graduate students Welcome – Dave Douches – Director PBGB and faculty associated with PBGB are particularly encouraged to participate. Please 9:10 – 10:00 register for the poster session by emailing Dr. Dr. Adam Bogdanove Dave Douches. – Plant Pathology “The roles of TAL effectors in nature in relation to their

unique properties as DNA targeting tools”

Luncheon: 10:00 – 10:30 Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Break and Genetics Program graduate students and 10:40 – 11:30 faculty who would like to participate in the Dr. Gary Rudgers luncheon with the speakers please RSVP by DOW AgroScience – Global Regulatory Leader email to Dr. Dave Douches at: “Plant : Biotech Tools for the Next [email protected] Generation ”

11:30 – 1:30 Sponsorship Lunch The PBGB program wishes to acknowledge support for the symposium from Dow 1:30 – 2:25 AgroSciences and MSU AgBioResearch. Dr. Nic Bate Syngenta, Group leader – Agronomic traits “Progress and challenges in the development of drought Friday December 12, 2014 tolerance from an industry perspective” Room A155 PSSB 9 AM to 4 PM 2:30 – 3:20 Image Credits: Dr. Peggy Ozias-Akins An artist's depiction of the CRISPR system in action. University of Georgia – Horticulture Illustration by Stephen Dixon “Engineering parthenogenesis: utility for apomixis and

Transgenic blight resistant potato varieties compared to the haploid induction” susceptible cultivar. 3:30 – 5:30 http://www.gmo-safety.eu/ Reception and Poster Session – MPS Atrium MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

Invited Speakers: Since 2013, this industry organization team has Dr. Peggy Ozias-Akins developed and distributed documentation on precision University of Georgia – Horticulture Dr. Adam Bogdanove breeding applications to governments and regulatory Cornell University – Plant Pathology bodies worldwide. As chair of the CLI-NBT team, Dr. “Engineering parthenogenesis: utility for apomixis Rudgers has represented the CLI-NBT working group at and haploid induction” “The roles of TAL effectors in nature in relation to various international organizations, government their unique properties as DNA targeting tools” agencies and international conferences. Prior to Dr. Peggy Ozias-Akins is a Professor in the Department joining Dow AgroSciences in 2008, Dr. Rudgers was of Horticulture and affiliated with the National Adam Bogdanove is a professor of Plant Pathology and one of the leading scientists to help launch the Environmentally Sound Production Agriculture Lab Plant-Microbe at Cornell University. His biotechnology company, Chromatin, Inc., in Chicago, (NESPAL) at the University of Georgia Tifton Campus. research centers on diseases of rice caused by Illinois. From 2002 – 2008 he led the Chromatin Areas of research for which she is internationally Xanthomonas oryzae, with a focus on TAL effectors, molecular biology research team to develop and recognized are encompassed in the discipline of plant transcription factors injected by the bacterium to construct the first autonomous plant mini- development and include 1) biotechnology for crop activate host genes during infection. Bogdanove chromosomes. Dr. Rudgers held a post-doctoral improvement, and 2) molecular genetics of apomixis discovered the modular mechanism by which TAL fellowship at The University of Chicago from 2001 – defined as asexual reproduction through seed. Dr. effectors recognize their DNA targets and pioneered 2002 and received his PhD in 2001 in molecular Ozias-Akins has delivered over 100 invited the use of TAL effectors as customizable DNA targeting microbiology and immunology from Baylor College of presentations at regional, national, and international tools for a variety of applications including genome Medicine in Houston, Texas. meetings. She has served on the editorial boards of editing and synthetic biology. Current efforts focus on four journals. She has attracted consistent funding TAL effector and target genotypic diversity toward from federal agencies including USDA-NRI/AFRI and broad and durable disease resistance. Bogdanove Dr. Nic Bate NSF and is active in the Tifton Campus teaching earned a bachelor of science in Biology at Yale Syngenta, Group leader – Agronomic traits program as professor, advisor, and curriculum University in 1987, and his PhD in Plant Pathology at committee member. Her outstanding contributions to Cornell in 1997. Following postdoctoral work at Purdue “Progress and challenges in the development of the field of Agricultural Biotechnology were recently and later at the Boyce Thompson Institute, Bogdanove drought tolerance from an industry perspective” recognized with an award of Fellow of the American joined the faculty of Plant Pathology at Iowa State Association for the Advancement of Science. Nic Bate is currently Group Leader for Agronomic University in 2000. Bogdanove joined the Cornell Traits for Syngenta, located in Research Triangle Park, faculty in 2012. North Carolina. He leads a group of about 40 scientists

in RTP and Beijing, engaged in research to develop Dr. Gary Rudgers solutions to complex traits such as drought in key DOW AgroScience – Global Regulatory Leader crops.crops . Previously, Nic was Research

Manager at Pioneer/DuPont in Johnston “Plant Genome Editing: Biotech Tools for the Next Iowa between 1999 and 2009 and a Principal Generation ” Investigator with Agriculture Canada in

Saskatoon between 1997 and 1999, working Gary Rudgers is the Global Regulatory Leader for New on transgene technologies and abiotic stress. Business at Dow AgroSciences in Indianapolis, Nic received his PhD from the University of Indiana. Over the past six years with the company, Dr. Guelph (Canada) and was an NSERC post- Rudgers has worked to develop, assess and coordinate doctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for global regulatory strategies for emerging and leading Biological Studies in La Jolla, CA where he biotech crops developed through new and novel plant worked on gene silencing mechanisms in technologies. In addition to his role at Dow plants. AgroSciences, Dr. Rudgers chairs the CropLife International New Breeding Techniques (CLI-NBT) working group. (continued…)