Agenda:
8:00 – Registration
8:30 – 8:40 Opening Remark Dr. Akihiro Sasoh, Vice President, Nagoya University
8:40 – 9:05 Keynote speech Dr. Tom Adams, CEO, Pairwise
9:05 – 9:30 Presentation (1) Dr. Masahiro Kanaoka “Challenges to understand and manipulate plant fertilization”
9:30 – 9:55 Presentation (2) Dr. Jean Ristaino “Emerging Plant Disease outbreaks: Tackling Global Challenges”
9:55 – 10:20 Presentation (3) Dr. Shunsuke Oishi “Chemical Peptide/Protein Synthesis and Cyclic Peptide Library for Phenotypic Screening”
10:20 – 10:45 Networking
10:45 – 11:10 Presentation (4) Dr. Paul Maddox “LITE microscopy: Tilted light-sheet excitation of model organisms
offers high resolution and low photobleaching”
11:10 – 11:35 Presentation (5) Dr. Jack Wang “Strategic Engineering of Populus For Bioenergy and Bioproducts Through
Multi-Omics Integration in Lignin Biosynthesis“
11:35 – 12:30 Panel Discussion
“Promoting industry and academia collaboration and regional economic development”
Panelist:
Dr. Akihiro Sasoh, Vice President, Nagoya University
Dr. Kultaran Chohan, Director of Licensing, NC State
Dr. Joerg Bauer, Head of Scouting and Collaboration Management, Bioscience Research, BASF
TBD (Public Sector)
12:30 – 12:40 Closing Remark Dr. Steven Lommel, Associate Dean for Research College Agriculture & Life Sciences, NC State
12:40– 13:30 Networking & Luncheon talk by Sponsors
