The 2026-27 APG Seminar Series will be held Thursdays at 2:30 p.m. Receptions will follow. Locations for the fall seminars will be posted soon. Spring semester seminars will be held in 306 Borlaug Hall.
| Date (all dates are Thursdays) | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 24, 2026 | Jennifer Kimball, University of Minnesota Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics | Promotion seminar: Domestication in real-time: Genomics and selection of cultivated wild rice | Candice Hirsch |
| October 22, 2026 | Walid Sadok, Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota | Promotion seminar: Traits for crop resilience and yield: What should we breed for, where, and when? | Candice Hirsch |
| November 19, 2026 | Jim Anderson, USDA-ARS, Fargo, North Dakota | TBD | Julia Zhang and Mitch Hunter |
| January 28, 2027 | Matt Hudson, University of Illinois | Learning from pangenomes using AI and robots | Bob Stupar |
| February 18, 2027 | Alvaro Sanz-Saez, Auburn University | Unraveling drought adaptation mechanisms in peanut using integrative physiological, phenomic, and molecular approaches | Walid Sadok |
| March 25, 2027 | Dana James, University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment | TBD | Nick Jordan |
| April 8, 2026 | Katie Dentzman, Iowa State University | TBD | Debalin Sarangi and Hanna Hekkanen |
| April 15, 2027 | Lisa Ainsworth, University of Illinois | TBD | Gary Muehlbauer and Aaron Lorenz |
| April 29, 2027 | Charlie Messina, University of Florida | TBD | Charlotte Brault |