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) and location | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 1, 2026 | Jennifer Kimball, University of Minnesota Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics | Promotion seminar: Domestication in real-time: Genomics and selection in cultivated wild rice | Candice Hirsch |
October 22, 2026 105 Cargill / reception following in the Cargill Atrium | 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 415 Alderman Hall Reception: Borlaug Commons | Jim Anderson, USDA-ARS, Fargo, North Dakota | Progress in understanding key regulators of agronomic traits in camelina | Julia Zhang and Mitch Hunter |
January 28, 2027 306 Borlaug Hall | Matt Hudson, University of Illinois | Learning from pangenomes using AI and robots | Bob Stupar |
February 18, 2027 306 Borlaug Hall | Alvaro Sanz-Saez, Auburn University | Unraveling drought adaptation mechanisms in peanut using integrative physiological, phenomic, and molecular approaches | Walid Sadok |
March 25, 2027 306 Borlaug Hall | Dana James, University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment | TBD | Nick Jordan |
April 8, 2026 306 Borlaug Hall | Katie Dentzman, Iowa State University | TBD | Debalin Sarangi and Hanna Hekkanen |
April 15, 2027 306 Borlaug Hall | Lisa Ainsworth, University of Illinois | TBD | Gary Muehlbauer and Aaron Lorenz |
April 29, 2027 306 Borlaug. Hall | Charlie Messina, University of Florida | TBD | Charlotte Brault |