Speaking Engagements

• Oliver J. Ratcliffe, Gordon Conference on Plant Molecular Biology, "New transcription factor-based technology and tools for future crop improvement", Holderness, NH, July 18-23, 2010
• Aaron Schuchart, International Biomass Conference, "Sustainable Biomass from Dedicated Energy Crops", Minneapolis, May 6, 2010
• Neal Gutterson, BIO International Convention, Food and Agriculture Track, "Next Generation Technologies", Chicago, IL, May 4, 2010.
• Neal Gutterson, Biomass2010 Conference, "Miscanthus commercial varieties and their production", Washington, DC, March 30, 2010.
• Aaron Schuchart, "Perspectives of Feedstock Suppliers on the Bio-based Chemicals Value Chain and Market Prospects", Bio-based Chemicals Summit, San Diego, CA, February 10, 2010
• Katrin Jakob, International Symposium on 21st Century Biofuel, "The Development of Commercial Miscanthus Cultivars for the U.S. Market", National Chung Kung University Tainan, Taiwan, November 20, 2009.
• Aaron Schuchart, "Using Licensing to Meet the Challenge of Developing and Commercializing New Energy and Environmental Technologies", International LES Meeting, San Francisco, CA, October 21, 2009
• Neal Gutterson, GoingGreen 2009 West Conference, "Seeds and Science for Sustainable Food and Energy", Sausalito, CA, September 15, 2009.
• Jeffrey B. McElroy, Seed Biotechnology Center 10th Anniversary Collaborative Symposium, "The Biomass Supply Chain + Breeding for Energy", UC Davis, Davis, CA, May 12, 2009.
• Aaron Schuchart, BayBio 2009 -- Navigating the Storm, "Recent Advancements in Trait Technology and Energy Crop Development", South San Francisco, April 16, 2009.
• Oliver J. Ratcliffe, SDCMA Water Symposium SALK institute, "New transcription factor based technology & tools for future crop improvement", San Diego, CA, March 17, 2009.
• Aaron Schuchart, Licensing Executive Society, "Partnering for Success in Bioenergy", Orlando, FL, November 9, 2008.
• Oliver J. Ratcliffe, New Phytologist Symposium - Physiological Sculpture of Plants, "New transcription factor based technology & tools for future crop improvement", September 18, 2008.
• Aaron Schuchart, Bioeconomy conference, "Economic potential of dedicated energy crops: What is possible and how to get there", Iowa State University, Ames, IO, September 9, 2008.
• Oliver J. Ratcliffe, Agricultural Biotechnology International Conference: "Transcription factor based approaches to enhance crop yield and stress tolerance", University College, Cork, Ireland, August 27, 2008.
• Neal Gutterson, The Pan American Congress on Plants and BioEnergy: "Fueling a bioenergy future -the business challenges and opportunities", Merida, Mexico, June 22-25, 2008.
• Neal Gutterson, The BIO International Convention: "Barriers to realizing a large scale ligno-cellulosic biofuel feedstocks", San Diego, CA, June 17-20, 2008.
• Neal Gutterson, BIO World Congress of Industrial Biotechnology: "Sustainability: challenges and opportunities with 2nd generation biofuels", Chicago, Il, April 27-30, 2008.
• Neal Gutterson, BIO World Congress of Industrial Biotechnology: "Crop Roundtable: Miscanthus domestication", Chicago, Il, April 27-30, 2008.
• Aaron Schuchart, "BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing", Chicago, IL, April 27-30, 2008.
• Neal Gutterson, Asia Society Greentech Conference: "Biofuels Persepectives", San Francisco, CA, April 19, 2008.
• Aaron Schuchart, "Getting from Lab to Market: Financing Strategies for Biofuel Companies", South San Francisco, CA, April 17, 2008.
• James Zhang, The Biology and Business of Biofuels: "Genetic improvement of biomass crops." San Diego, California January 28-30, 2008.
• Neal Gutterson, The Second Decade of Agricultural Biotechnology: "Plant Biotechnology and Cellulosic Ethanol Production" Washington, D.C., January 16, 2008.
• Neal Gutterson, BIO Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology & Bioenergy: "Sustainable 2nd Generation Biofuels". Honolulu, Hawaii, November 15th, 2007.
• James Zhang, BIO Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology & Bioenergy: "Feedstock development for 2nd Generation Biofuels" Honolulu, Hawaii, November 14-16, 2007.
• James Zhang, Platts Conference on Cellulosic Ethanol and 2nd Generation Biofuels -- Moving to Industrial-Scale Production: "Feedstock development for the lignocellulosic industry" W Hotel City Center, Chicago, October 16-18, 2007.
• Neal Gutterson, Georgia Life Sciences Summit, 2007: "Cellulosic Feedstocks: A Southeastern Perspective". Atlanta, GA, October 3rd, 2007.
• Joshua I. Armstrong, Plant Sciences Symposium: "Chemical regulation of plant stress tolerance". University of California, Davis, September 19th, 2007.
• Neal Gutterson, BIO Annual Meeting, 2007: "Energy Crops for Biofuels". Boston, MA, May 8th, 2007.
• James Zhang, Fueling Change With Renewable Energy: "Feedstock improvement -a biotechnology business opportunity perspective" University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 26-27, 2007
• Oliver J. Ratcliffe, American Chemical Society Meeting: "From genomics screens on the Arabidopsis model system to effective drought tolerance products in crops". Chicago, March 29, 2007
• James Zhang, The 2nd International Conference on Plant Molecular Breeding: "Functional genomics and intellectual property" Sanya, China, March 23-27, 2007
• Oliver J. Ratcliffe, GARNET 2006 Meeting: "From genomics screens on the Arabidopsis model system to effective products in crops". Bristol, UK, September 11, 2006
• James Zhang, 11th International Congress of Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology: "From Arabidopsis in the Lab to Crops in the Field - How to Capture and Protect a Broad Intellectual Property Position from Plant Functional Genomics" Beijing, China, August 2006
• James Zhang, CREST-JST International Symposium: Functional Network of Transcription Factors in Plants. Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, November 2005
• Bradley K. Sherman, Co-Chair, Special Session on Computer Infrastructure for Systems Biology, 18th International Conference on Systems Engineering, Las Vegas, August 2005
• James Zhang, International Symposium on Agricultural Genomics and Biotechnology. Tainan City, Taiwan, Republic of China, October 2004
• Neal Gutterson, NCFAP conference, "What can Public Research Agencies do to Facilitate the Regulatory Consideration of Small-Market Biotechnology-Derived Crops?" Washington, D.C., USA, 2004
• Oliver J. Ratcliffe, SDCMA meeting: "A genomic survey of transcription factor overexpression: discovery and development of pathways regulating valuable traits." San Diego, USA, 25 October 2004.
• Bradley K. Sherman, NSF Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI), "Mining Functional Genomic and Sequence Data in a Commercial Setting", Montevideo, Uruguay, February 2004.
• James Zhang, Carnegie Institution of Washington Department of Plant Biology, Stanford, California, USA, 2004
• James Zhang, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA, 2004
• James Zhang, 2nd Plant Genomics Workshop, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, 2004
• James Zhang, Nevada's NSF-Experimental Program to Stimulation Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Workshop on Integrative Approaches to Abiotic Stress, North Tahoe, California, USA, 2004
• James Zhang, Gordon Research Conference: "Salt & Water Stress in Plants" Hong Kong, China, 2004
• James Zhang, Keystone Symposia: "Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress", Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA 2004
• James Zhang, Indo-US Agricultural Biotechnology Conference on Nutritional Enhancement & Abiotic Stress Tolerance, New Delhi, India 2003
• James Zhang, Gordon Research Conference: "Agricultural Science" Ventura, California, USA 2003
• James Zhang, Gordon Research Conference: "Temperature Stress in Plants" Ventura, California, USA 2003
• Jacqueline Heard, Gordon Research Conference: "Agricultural Science" Ventura, California, USA 2003
• James Zhang, The 2002 Agricultural Biotechnology Symposium and Showcase, San Diego, California, USA 2002
• Oliver J. Ratcliffe, EMBO floral transition workshop: "Genomic analysis of the floral transition." Norwich, United Kingdom, July 2001.
• James Zhang, International Conference on Agricultural Science and Technology, Beijing, China 2001
• James Zhang, 12th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Madison, WI, USA 2001
• James Zhang, Gordon Research Conference: "Agricultural Science" Ventura, CA, USA 2001
• Jose Luis Riechmann: "Arabidopsis transcription factors: genome wide comparative analysis among eukaryotes." Michigan State University, USA, 2001.
• Jose Luis Riechmann: "Arabidopsis transcription factors: genome wide comparative analysis among eukaryotes." Max Planck Institute, Germany, 2001.
• Jose Luis Riechmann: "Genomic analysis of the floral transition." 12th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research. Madison, Wisconsin, 23-27 June, USA, 2001.
• Volker Haake: "The identification of transcription factors regulating temperature and water stress responses. 12th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research. Madison, Wisconsin, USA 23-27 June, 2001.
• Jose Luis Riechmann: "Arabidopsis transcription factors: genome wide comparative analysis among eukaryotes." John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK, 2001.
• Jose Luis Riechmann: "Arabidopsis transcription factors: genome wide comparative analysis among eukaryotes." GARNet Meeting, York, UK, 2001
• James Zhang, "Making the connection between functional genomics and freezing tolerance in plants", Gordon Research Conference on Temperature Stress in Plants, Ventura, January 2001.
• Jose Luis Riechmann: "Arabidopsis transcription factors: genome wide comparative analysis among eukaryotes." Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA, December 2000
• James Zhang, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada 2000
• Jacqueline Heard, "Transcription factor gene content of the Arabidopsis Genome", Gordon Research Conference on Plant Molecular Biology, Holderness New Hampshire, July 2000.
• James Zhang, Manager, Research and Development "Commercial Development of Freezing Tolerance in Plants", Cryobiology 2000: Advances in the Field of Low Temperature Biology, Medicine, and Agriculture, July 30 - August 1, 2000, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Guo-Liang Yu, Sr. VP, Research and Development "A functional genomics platform to identify high value traits for agriculture", Agricultural Genomics: New technologies, Functions, and Advances in Plant Biotechnology, May 17-19, 2000, San Diego, California.