Program: 51st Annual Illinois Corn Breeders’ School March 2-3, 2015 Monday, March 2, 2015 Morning Session: Functional Genomics Chair: Martin Bohn 7:15-8:15 Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:15-8:30 Opening Remarks: Martin Bohn 8:30-9:15 Candice Hirsch, University of Minnesota Understanding the Maize Pan Genome and the Role it has Played and Can Continue to Play in Crop Improvement 9:15-10:00 Alexander E. Lipka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Inference of Metabolic Pathway Dynamics Through Quantitative Genetics: Maize Grain Carotenoids and Tocochromanols in the NAM Panel 10:00 Break 10:30-11:15 Paul Loida, Monsanto Expression of Arabidopsis Thaliana HB17 Gene in Corn Leads to Improved Sink Potential 11:15-12:00 Stephen Moose, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Small RNA Regulation of Traits Important to Sustainable Maize Production 12:00-1:15 Lunch Afternoon Session: Geno-type-by-Environment/Management Interactions Chair: Steve Moose 1:15-2:00 Donald Ort, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Limitations on Yields in the Corn Belt. Are Average 250 Bushel/Acre Yields Possible? 2:00-2:45 Emerson Nafziger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Corn Agronomy—Pushing High Yields Higher 2:45-3:15 Break 3:15-4:00 Ana Dias, Monsanto Global Status of Corn/Maize Lethal Necrosis 4:00-4:45 Carl Bradley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Corn Disease Trends and Management in Illinois 4:45-5:30 Aaron Lorenz, University of Nebraska-Lincoln A National Genotype-by-Environment Interaction Study in Maize Program: 51st Annual Illinois Corn Breeders’ School March 2-3, 2015 Monday evening: Chair: Steve Moose 5:30-6:30 Social Hour 6:30-7:30 Dinner 7:30-8:15 Keynote Speaker: Tamara A. Nelsen, Illinois Farm Bureau Talking to Consumers about Agriculture: Lessons from the Field Tuesday, March 3, 2015 Morning Session: High-Throughput Phenotyping Chair: Pat Brown 7:30-8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:00-8:45 Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Spectroscopic Analysis to Determine Composition of Intact Seeds 8:45-9:30 Liudmila Sergeevna Mainzer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign High Performance Computing practices for Biological Big Data 9:30 –10:00 Break 10:00-10:45 Lila Vodkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Intersection of Genomics and Nanotechnology: Examples from Soybean Seed and Seedling Development 10:45-11:30 Edwin Reidel, North America Lemnatec Automated, High-Throughput Phenotyping from Assay Plates to Field Plots 11:30-11:35 Closing Remarks