APG Seminar Series

The 2025-26 APG Seminar Series will be held in 105 Cargill with receptions following in the Cargill Atrium. All seminars will begin at 2:30 p.m.

Date (all dates are Thursdays)SpeakerTitleHost
September 11, 2025Christine Diepenbrock, University of California, DavisImproving nutritional quality and environmental stress tolerance in grain legumes, cereals, and leafy greensAaron Lorenz and Aimee Schulz
September 18, 2025Debalin Sarangi, Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of MinnesotaTBD 
October 9, 2025PostDoc talksTBD 
November 6, 2025Curtis Pozniak, University of SaskatchewanFeed the future: Integration of modern technologies in wheat breedingJim Anderson
December 4, 2025Christine Sprunger, Michigan State UniversityNematodes as indicators of soil, health and climate resiliencyEmily Delorean
January 29, 2026Lisa Ainsworth, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignTBDWalid Sadok
February 26, 2026Sean Smukler, University of British ColumbiaTBDHannah Rusch and Nick Jordan
March 26, 2026Charlie Messina, University of FloridaTBDWalid Sadok
April 9, 2026Patrick Tranel, University of IllinoisTBDDebalin Sarangi
April 23, 2026Jianxin Ma, Purdue UniversityTBDBob Stupar