Program

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LICOR Facility
TBD
 
UNL Phenotyping Facility, 2 tours 3 – 3:45 pm, 4 – 4:45 pm

The Innovation Campus Greenhouse is a short drive from the conference center. You must provide your own transportation to this facility, which houses two image-based plant phenotyping systems. The greenhouse scale system can accommodate > 600 large plants and the lab scale system can accommodate multiple trays of small plants. The tour will include up close views of both systems along with a walk-through of the soil preparation, pot filling and wet lab areas. Our phenotyping systems have imaging chambers to facilitate very consistent images and utilize infrared, near infrared, florescent, hyperspectral and visible cameras. We also have facilities at the greenhouse for ground truth measurements including a drying oven for soil moisture and dry biomass along with a Licor leaf area meter.

UNL Beadle Center, 2 tours 3 – 3:45 pm, 4 – 4:45 pm
The UNL Beadle center is within easy walking distance of downtown hotels and the conference center.  It houses world-class proteomics/metabolomics and microscopy core facilities, along with an excellent greenhouse facility. The plant transformation core and many faculty of the Center for Plant Science Innovation Center are housed in Beadle, and this tour will be led by our faculty and graduate students, introducing the core facilities and the beautiful diversity rooms of the greenhouse, overflowing with plants from around the world.

 

Friday, March 21st
3:00 – 5:00 pm Tour of UNL Phenotyping Greenhouse
Tour of UNL Beadle Center
Saturday, March 22nd
7:45 – 8:45 am Registration/Check-in/Poster Set-up/Breakfast (provided)
8:45 – 9:00 am Welcoming Remarks
9:05 – 10:35 am Oral Session I:
9:05 – 9:25 Invited Speaker 1
9:25 – 9:35  Discussion
9:35 – 10:35 Selected early career speakers 1-4
10:35 – 10:45 am Coffee/Tea break
10:45 – 12:15 pm Oral Session II:
10:45 – 11:05 Invited Speaker 2
11:05 – 11:15  Discussion
11:15 – 12:15 Selected early career speakers 5-8
12:15 – 1:15 pm Lunch (provided)
12:45 – 1:45 Panel discussion: Careers beyond academia and how to get them
1:45 – 2:45 pm Poster Session I (Odd numbers)/Desserts
2:50 – 4:20 pm Oral Session III
2:50 – 3:10 Invited Speaker 3
3:10 – 3:20 Discussion
3:20 – 4:20 Selected early career speakers  9-12
4:20 – 5:20 pm Poster session II (even numbers)/refreshments
5:30 – 5:50 Invited Speaker 4
5:50 – 6:00 Discussion
6:00 – 7:00 pm Dinner reception 
Sunday, March 23rd
7:00 – 8:00 am Registration/Check-in/Breakfast (provided)
8:00 – 8:15 am Welcome to Day 2
8:15 – 9:45 am Oral Session IV
8:15 – 8:35 Invited Speaker 5
8:35 – 8:45 Discussion
8:45 – 9:45 Selected early career speakers 13-16
9:45 – 10:00 Coffee/Tea break
10:00 – 11:45 Oral Session V
10:00 – 11:00 Selected early career speaker 17-20
11:00 – 11:20 Invited Speaker 6
11:20 – 11:30 Discussion
11:30 – 11:45 Awards and Announcement
11:45 – 12:05 Closing Remarks