2017 IPG Symposium

Root Biology

The Interdisciplinary Plant Group (IPG) at the University of Missouri held its 34th Annual Symposium on “Root Biology”, the fourth in this series, June 7 – 9, 2017. This symposium brought together an interdisciplinary group of researchers from across the globe to address recent advances in studies of root growth, development, and function as well as root-rhizosphere interactions. The symposium was held in the Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia, Missouri.

Speakers

• Malcolm Bennett, University of Nottingham, UK
• Glyn Bengough, The James Hutton Institute, UK
• Andrea Carminati, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
• Joe Cornelius, Department of Energy
• Randy Clark, DuPont Pioneer, US
• Richard Dick, Ohio State University, US
• Tyler Dowd, University of Missouri, US
• Matthias Erb, University of Bern, Switzerland
• Richard Ferrieri, University of Missouri, US
• Jill Findeis, University of Missouri, US
• Julia Frugoli, Clemson University, US
• Sofie Goormachtig, VIB and Ghent University, Belgium
• Christian Hardtke, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
• Amelia Henry, IRRI, Phillipines
• Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi, Purdue University, US
• Maya Kleiman, Institute of Plant Sciences, Argicultural Research Institute, Israel
• Guillhaume Lobet, Forschungszentrum Julich and Université catholique de Louvain, Germany
• Nonawin Lucob, Nagoya University, Japan
• Jonathan Lynch, Pennsylvania State University, US
• Walid Sadok, University of Minnesota, US
• Daniel Schachtman, University of Nebraska, US
• Wolf Scheible, The Samuel Roberts Nobel Foundation, US
• Megan Shelden, University of Adelaide, Australia
• Emanuel Souza, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
• Ross Sozzani, North Carolina State University, US
• Lucia Strader, Washington University, St Louis, US
• Katalin Toth, University of Missouri, US
• Chris Topp, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, US
• Steve Tyerman, University of Adelaide, Australia
• Michelle Watt, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

Sponsors and Exhibitors

Organizing Committee

• Melissa Mitchum, Ph.D., Commitee Co-Chair, University of Missouri
• Felix Fritschi, Ph.D., Commitee Co-Chair, University of Missouri
• David Braun, Ph.D., University of Missouri
• Bruce Hibbard, Ph.D., USDA-ARS
• Trupti Joshi, Ph.D., University of Missouri
• Bob Sharp, Ph.D., University of Missouri
• Gary Stacey. Ph.D., University of Missouri
• Lloyd Sumner. Ph.D., University of Missouri
• Chris Topp, Ph.D., Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
• Shannon King, University of Missouri (Graduate Student Representative)