Dr. Pamela G. Marrone, Marrone Bio Innovations Recipient of 2019 AGRO Award for Innovation in Chemistry of Agriculture Pamela G. Marrone is the CEO/Founder of Marrone Bio Innovations (MBI), a company she started in 2006 to discover and develop bio-based…
Dr. Peter H. Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden Dr. Raven is president emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden, which he headed for 39 years, guiding it to become a global leader in botanical research and conservation while remaining a prized local…
Presented February 18, 2020. Presenters: Dr. Glenn Miller and Dr. Kevin Armbrust. Dr. Miller is Emeritus Professor at the Nevada Agriculture Experiment Station where he develops agronomic best management practices (BMPs) for industrial hemp and the understanding of genotype responses…
Dr. Antony Williams, US EPA Antony Williams is a Computational Chemist at the US Environmental Protection Agency in the National Center for Computational Toxicology. He has been involved in cheminformatics and the dissemination of chemical information for over thirty years.…
Adam CN Wong, Assistant Professor, University of Florida
Carl K. Winter, University of California, Davis
Todd Gaines, Colorado State University Weeds can evolve resistance to herbicides through enzymatic mechanisms to metabolize and detoxify herbicide molecules. Recent advances have revealed specific genes controlling metabolic resistance such as cytochrome P450s, glutathione-S-transferase, and others, primarily in grasses but…
Co-Sponsored by Eurofins This webinar is a collection of selected plenary presentations from the recent Workshop on Innovation and Regulation in Agriculture held in Raleigh, North Carolina. Vegetative filter strips (VFS) are widely used by producers to mitigate runoff and…
Baldwyn Torto, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, South Africa ThSeventeen percent of the global infectious diseases are vector-borne which results in more than 700,000 deaths annually. Malaria ranks highest among these diseases, causing over 400,000 deaths yearly,…
Michelle R. Embry, Ph.D, Associate Director Environmental Science, Health and Environmental Science Institute The HESI Risk Assessment in the 21st Century (RISK21 project developed an integrated risk assessment framework to enhance efficiency and risk management. This framework is an problem…