Speakers Bureau

Plant Sciences Institute Speakers Available for Seminar Presentations

To arrange a presentation, please contact the speakers listed below:

Diane Birt,, Ph.D., Director, Center for Research on Botanical Dietary Supplements; Interim Director, Nutrition and Wellness Research Center Distinguished Professor, Food Science and Human Nutrition
Phone: 515-294-9873
Email:

• "Nutrition and Cancer Prevention"
• "Dietary Supplements: Separating Facts from Fantasy"

Julie Dickerson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Engineering
Phone: 515-294-7705
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• "Visualization of Biological Data."
• "Exploration of Metabolic Networks."

Dermot J. Hayes, Ph.D., Leader, Public Policy Task Force; Pioneer Chair of Agribusiness; Professor, Economics, Finance
Phone: 515-294-6185
Email:

• "Food versus Fuel versus Carbon Tradeoffs."
• "Property Rights in the Seed Industry."

Stephen H. Howell, Ph.D., Director, Plant Sciences Institute; Professor, Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Phone: 515-294-5252
Email:

• "The Plant Sciences Institute: We are "Bio" in Bioenergy."
• "Plant Biotechnology: History and New Directions."
• "How do plants deal with stress" -- science talk

Robert L. Jernigan, Ph.D., Director, Laurence H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics; Professor, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Phone: 515-294-3833
Email:

• "Molecular Machines from Genomes."
• "Functional Interpretation of Genomes via Structures."

Lawrence A. Johnson, Ph.D., Director, BioCentury Research Farm, Director, Center for Crops Utilization Research; Professor, Food Science and Human Nutrition
Phone: 515-294-4365
Email:

• "Spinning Advances in Plant Sciences into Economic Gold."
• "The ISU BioCentury Research Farm - A New Tool to Advance the Bioeconomy"
• "Sequential Extraction Processing of Corn into High Value Products."

Thomas Lübberstedt, Ph.D., Director, Raymond F. Baker Center for Plant Breeding; Kenneth J. Frey Professor; Associate Professor, Agronomy
Phone: 515-294-5356
Email:

• "The Challenges and Roles of Public Plant Breeding Programs."
• "Research Projects in the Raymond F. Baker Center for Plant Breeding."

W. Allen Miller, Ph.D. Director, Center for Plant Responses to Environmental Stresses; Professor, Plant Pathology
Phone: 515-294-2436
Email:

• "RNA virus replication: from plants to humans."
• "How cells decode the genetic code."
• "Sustainable Control of Crop Diseases and Pests."

Manjit K. Misra, Ph.D., Director, Seed Science Center; Professor, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Phone: 515-294-6821
Email:

• "Quality Seeds to Feed the World: the role of Seed Science Center"
• "Biosafety Institute for Genetically Modified Agricultural Products (BIGMAP)."

Basil J. Nikolau, Ph.D., Director, Center for Metabolic Biology; Deputy Director, National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals; Francis M. Craig Professor, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Food Science and Human Nutrition
Phone: 515-294-9423
Email:

• "The Role of Metabolomics in Elucidating Biological Functions."
• "The Role of Basic Research in Enhancing Agriculture: Opportunities in the Bioeconomy."
• "Bioenergy and Biomaterials - New Opportunities for Advances in Science and Engineering"

Thomas A. Peterson, Ph.D., Pioneer Hi-Bred Chair of Maize Molecular Genetics; Professor, Genetics, Development and Molecular Biology
Phone: 515-294-6345
Email:

• "Jumping Genes and the Dynamic Genome."
• "Genome Processing: Using transposons to copy, paste, and delete."
• "Transposable Elements for Plant Chromosome Engineering."

Patrick S. Schnable, Ph.D., Director, Center for Plant Genomics; Professor, Agronomy, Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Phone: 515-294-0975
Email:

• "The Maize Genome Project."

Martin H. Spalding, II, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Genetics, Development and Molecular Biology
Phone: 515-294-1749
Email:

• "Photosynthetic carbon metabolism and metabolic regulation of gene expression in plants and photosynthetic microbes."

Kan Wang, Director, Center for Plant Transformation, Professor, Agronomy, Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Phone: 515-294-4429
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• "Stresses, Vaccines, and Genetic Transformation."
• "Corn as a Production and Delivery System for Oral Vaccines."

Dr. William D. Beavis, Interim Director, Plant Sciences Institute
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