Join us for a dynamic day of exploration and discovery as we celebrate the diverse fields within plant sciences!
Date: May 14, 2026
Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm Eastern Time (Check-in 8:30am)
Location: Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (CCRC), Main Auditorium 315 Riverbend Road, Athens GA 30602
Speakers
Dr. Michael Gore
Integrating Robotic Phenotyping, AI, and Programmable Plants to Reveal Crop Traits and Environmental Signals
Stacey Smith
University of Colorado Boulder
Deep origins of flower color diversity: How evolutionary tinkering with ancient pathways make a rainbow
Lubana Shahin
Unraveling the Molecular Basis of Substrate Selectivity in Pectin O-acetyltransferases
Andrea Eveland
Harnessing natural variation in gene regulation to optimize complex traits for climate-resilient sorghum