Future of Agriculture for Sustainability (J3)
January 20-23, 2025
| Keystone Resort, Keystone, CO, United States
Christopher Voigt
Scholarship Deadline: Nov. 21, 2024 | Abstract Deadline: Dec. 31, 2024 | Early Registration Deadline: Dec. 5, 2024
| 4:00–8:00 PM |
Arrival and Registration |
Longs Peak Foyer |
| 6:00–8:00 PM |
Welcome Mixer |
Longs Peak Foyer |
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
| 7:00–8:00 AM |
Breakfast |
Longs Peak |
| 8:00–9:30 AM |
Welcome and Keynote Address (Joint) |
Grays Peak 1-2 |
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* Jennifer Charlotte Mortimer, University of Adelaide
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* Christopher Voigt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Elizabeth Sattely, Stanford University
Engineering Plant Chemistry for Plant and Human Health |
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Anne E. Osbourn, John Innes Centre
Engineering Synthetic Pathways Towards Natural Products |
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| 9:30–9:50 AM |
Coffee Break |
Longs Peak Foyer |
| 9:50–11:15 AM |
Engineering Microbial-Plant Interactions (Joint) |
Grays Peak 1-2 |
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Jean-Michel Ane, University of Wisconsin - Madison
The Complex Communications Between Plants and their Microbiota |
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Christopher Voigt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tracking Engineered Microbiomes from Space and Over Decades |
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* Gozde S Demirer, Caltech
Short Talk: Sustainable Agriculture Through Persistent Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria |
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| 11:15–1:00 PM |
Poster Setup |
Longs Peak |
| 11:15–2:30 PM |
On Own for Lunch |
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| 1:00–10:00 PM |
Poster Viewing |
Longs Peak |
| 3:00–4:30 PM |
Symposia Spotlight 1: Late-breaking research presentations selected from abstract submissions |
Grays Peak 1-2 |
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Maria Florencia Ercoli, University of California Davis
Engineering Rice Root System Architecture and Exudate Composition to Optimize Rhizosphere Interactions. |
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* Conor J McClune, Stanford University
Multiplexed Perturbation of Yew Reveals Cryptic Proteins that Enable a Total Biosynthesis of Taxol Precursors |
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Motoaki Seki, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
Development of EGAO (Ethanol-Based Global Agricultural Optimization) Technology and its Application for the Sustainable Agriculture |
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Joshua S Clem, University of Maryland, College Park
A Novel Type I-F CRISPR System Confers Kilobase-scale Genomic Deletions at GC-rich PAMs in Plants |
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Jonathan Conway, Princeton University
Engineering Auxin-Mediated Plant-Microbe Interactions for Sustainable Agriculture |
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| 4:30–5:00 PM |
Coffee Available |
Longs Peak Foyer |
| 5:00–7:00 PM |
Preparing for Climate Change with Plant Engineering (Joint) |
Grays Peak 1-2 |
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Pamela C Ronald, University of California, Davis
Engineering Rice for Climate Change |
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* Jenn Brophy, Stanford University
Genetic Circuits to Control Root Development |
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June I. Medford, Colorado State University
Towards Plants to Address Food, Water and Climate Needs |
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* Arjun Khakhar, Colorado State University
Short Talk: Using Synthetic Biology to Open New Avenues for Sustainable Agriculture |
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Subah Soni, University of California, Davis
Short Talk: Engineering Rice Root Exudation for Reduced Greenhouse Gas Emissions |
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| 7:00–8:00 PM |
Social Hour with Lite Bites |
Longs Peak |
| 7:30–10:00 PM |
Poster Session 1 |
Longs Peak |
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
| 7:00–8:00 AM |
Breakfast |
Longs Peak |
| 8:00–11:00 AM |
Defeating Haber-Bosch; Low Energy Routes to Fertilizer (Joint) |
Grays Peak 1-2 |
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* Henrik V Scheller, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Session Chair |
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Giles E.D. Oldroyd, University of Cambridge
Achieving Sustainable Productivity in Agriculture Through Beneficial Microbial Associations |
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Min-Hyung Ryu, Pivot Bio
Deployment of Bacteria that Deliver Fixed Nitrogen to Cereals |
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Cathie Martin, John Innes Centre
Healthy Plants; Healthy People - Fortifying Vitamins and Phytonutrients in Tomato |
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Haven Baker, Pairwise Plants
Tools for Plant Engineering to Accelerate Plant-based Production Systems |
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Solène LY Moulin, Stanford School of Medicine
Short Talk: Cell Evolution of Nitrogen-Fixing Endosymbioses: A Blueprint for Synthetic Self-Fertilizing Plants |
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| 9:00–9:20 AM |
Coffee Break |
Longs Peak Foyer |
| 11:00–1:00 PM |
Poster Setup |
Longs Peak |
| 11:00–1:30 PM |
On Own for Lunch |
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| 1:00–10:00 PM |
Poster Viewing |
Longs Peak |
| 3:30–4:30 PM |
Career Roundtable (Joint) |
Grays Peak 1-2 |
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Jenn Brophy, Stanford University
Assistant Professor |
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Matt DiLeo, Elo Life Systems
Vice President, R&D |
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Pablo D. Rabinowicz, U.S. Department of Energy
Program Manager, Biological and Environmental Research |
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| 4:30–5:00 PM |
Coffee Available |
Longs Peak Foyer |
| 5:00–7:00 PM |
Thinking Plants, Programmed to Respond to their Environment |
Grays Peak 1-2 |
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Mauricio S Antunes, University of North Texas
Rewiring Plant Metabolism with Information Processing Circuits |
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* Neal Stewart, University of Tennessee
Rapid in vivo Analysis of Synthetic Promoters for Plant Pathogen Phytosensing |
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Sean Cutler, University of California, Riverside
Reprogramming ABA Receptors for New Plant Functions |
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Alexandra M Shigenaga, University of California, Davis
Short Talk: Elucidating the Role of An Evolutionarily Conserved Peptide Signaling Pathway in Growth and Defense Processes |
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Sophia A Tomatz, University of California, Berkeley
Short Talk: Engineering Lipid-Based Nanoparticles to Deliver Small Rnas to Plant Systems |
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| 7:00–8:00 PM |
Social Hour with Lite Bites |
Longs Peak |
| 7:30–10:00 PM |
Poster Session 2 |
Longs Peak |
Thursday, January 23, 2025
| 7:00–8:00 AM |
Breakfast |
Longs Peak |
| 8:00–11:00 AM |
Massively Reengineered Plant Genetics |
Grays Peak 1-2 |
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* Caixia Gao, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Targeted Genome Engineering Tools and their Applications in Crop Breeding |
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Daniel F Voytas, University of Minnesota
Plant gene editing at scale using non-transgenic approaches |
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Ralph Bock, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Engineering Plant Organellar Genomes |
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Martin Jonikas, Princeton University
Structure, Biogenesis, and Engineering of the Pyrenoid |
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Brenden Barco, Syngenta Crop Protection
Short Talk: Advances in LbCas12a-mediated Genome Editing in High Value Crops |
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Abraham Steinberger, University of Minnesota
Short Talk: Towards Heritable, Tissue Culture-Free Gene Editing of Barley and Wheat Using a Barley Stripe Mosaic Virus Vector |
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| 9:00–9:20 AM |
Coffee Break |
Longs Peak Foyer |
| 11:00–2:30 PM |
On Own for Lunch |
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| 3:00–4:15 PM |
Symposia Spotlight 2: Late-breaking research presentations selected from abstract submissions |
Grays Peak 1-2 |
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Sakiko Okumoto, Texas A&M AgriLIfe research
Reducing N2O Emission Through Biological Nitrification Inhibition in Sorghum |
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* Mathew G Lewsey, La Trobe University
Establishment of Single-Cell Transcriptional States During Seed Germination |
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Sangeetha Ramesh, University of California Davis
Understanding Bacterial Immunogenic Peptide Features That Facilitate Host Recognition During Rice-Xoo Interactions |
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Tahmina Islam, University of Dhaka
Development of Low Erucic Acid Producing Local Mustard Variety (Brassica Rapa L.) Through Genome Editing |
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| 4:30–5:00 PM |
Coffee Available |
Longs Peak Foyer |
| 5:00–6:30 PM |
Advanced Insect Control |
Grays Peak 1-2 |
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* Jeffrey E Barrick, The University of Texas at Austin
Protecting Bees Through Engineering Their Microbiome |
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Pedro Coelho, Provivi Inc.
Metabolic Engineering & Chemical Synthesis of Pheromones for Mating Disruption of Key Row Crop Pests |
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Max Scott, North Carolina State University
Genetic biocontrol of a global invasive fruit fly |
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| 6:30–7:15 PM |
Closing Keynote Address |
Grays Peak 1-2 |
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* Christopher Voigt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Session Chair |
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Mary A. Gehring, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Engineering Plant Reproduction |
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| 7:15–7:30 PM |
Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers) |
Grays Peak 1-2 |
| 7:30–8:30 PM |
Social Hour with Lite Bites |
Longs Peak |
| 8:00–9:00 PM |
Entertainment |
Grays Peak 1-2 |
| 8:00–9:00 PM |
Cash Bar |
Longs Peak |
