About IPG
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
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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)