1st Annual BARC-UMD Fall Symposium:
Trends in Agriculture
Thursday, October 20, 2011
National Wildlife Visitor Center
10901 Scarlet Tanager Loop, Laurel, MD 20708-4027
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The goal of the Annual Trends in Agriculture Fall Symposium series, sponsored jointly by BARC and UMD, is to provide a forum for discussions of current and future trends in agriculture, and how trends may impact scientific research, agriculture, the environment, and society. The Symposium will host internationally recognized speakers and bring together regional scientists, students, policy makers, and other interested parties for an exciting look at current and emerging issues in agriculture.
Speakers
Prehuman Origin of Agriculture
Dr. Lynn Margulis - Home Page
Distinguished University Professor
University of Massachusetts - Department of Geoscienses
The Next Synthesis: The Marriage of Ecology/Evolutionary Biology and Agriculture
Dr. Wes Jackson, Co-Founder - Home Page
The Land Institute, Salina, KA
The emerging ecological paradigm for agriculture: Why is this the time and why has it taken 200 years to get here? Dr. Robert M. Goodman - Home Page
Executive Dean, Rutgers University
Dr. Xenia K. Morin
Associate Dean, Rutgers University
Assembling Large Mammalian Genomes (and even larger plant genomes) in Next-Generation Sequencing Projects
Dr. Steven Salzberg - Home Page
Professor, Departments of Medicine and Biostatistics
McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine
& Dept. of Biostatistics Johns Hopkins University
Univ. of Maryland - Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Videos
- Introduction 7 minutes
- Dr. Amy Rossman, ARS
- Dr. Joseph Spence, Area Director, BARC, ARS
- Dr. Mary Ann Ottinger, UMD
- Dr. Cheng-I Wei, Dean & Director, Agricultural Experiment Station & University of Maryland Extension, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, UMD College Park
- Dr. Wes Jackson 1 hour 22 minutes
- Dr. Robert M. Goodman 52 minutes
- Dr. Steven Salzberg 1 hour 2 minutes
- Round Table Discussion 44 minutes
- Dr. Wes Jackson
- Dr. Lynn Margulis
- Dr. Xenia K. Morin
- Dr. Steven Salzberg
- Hosted by: Dr. Robert E. Davis, ARS
National Wildlife Visitor Center - Conference Guidelines
Sponsors
- BARC, ARS, USDA
http://www.ba.ars.usda.gov - The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, UMD (Dean Dr. Cheng-I Wei)
http://agnr.umd.edu/ - Division of Research, UMD (Vice President for Research, Dr. Patrick O'Shea)
http://www.umresearch.umd.edu/ - Friends of Agriculture Beltsville (Pres. James D. Anderson)
http://www.far-b.org/
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