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May 7, 2024. Faculty Distinguished Research Award lecture, UC Davis
March 8, 2024. Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Resident Lecture
February 12 - 15, 2024. World Governments Summit, Scientific Discovery and Applications Laureates Roundtable, Dubai
February 12, 2024. Smart Harvesting Summit, San Diego, CA
November 10, 2023. Panelist, International Forum on Research Excellence (IFoRE)
October 13, 2023. Invited speaker, GoogleX
October 12, 2024. Keynote speaker, JBEI annual meeting
October 5, 2024. IGI SAB
September 29, 2023. Invited Participant, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
September 27, 2024. IGI CZI annual meeting
July 16 - 21, 2023. Invited Speaker, 23rd International Congress of Genetics. Melbourne, Australia. “Plant interactions with other organisms”
July 14 - 15, 2023. Invited Participant, Sci Foo, Google X
July 7, 2023. ASPB Scientist spotlight
June 21 - 23, 2023. Invited Speaker, The Breakthrough Institute, Cavallo Point Lodge, CA
May 11, 2023. Invited Speaker, Gurdev Khush event, The Davis Humanities Institute, UC Davis
May 10, 2023. Invited Speaker, The Job Forum, SF. Registration link.
May 5, 2023. Invited Speaker, University Retirement Community, Davis CA
April 27, 2023. Invited Speaker, University of Colorado Boulder Rose M. Litman Memorial Lecture
April 24, 2023. Invited Speaker, L’Institut Agro, Dijon
April 21, 2023. Invited Speaker, Junia, Grande ecole d’ingenieurs, Lille
April 20, 2023. Invited Speaker, United States Embassy, Paris
April 20, 2023. Invited Speaker, Agridees, Paris
April 19, 2023. Invited Speaker, d’UniLaSalle, Mont Saint Aignan, Rouen
April 11 - 15, 2023. Invited Speaker, "Strategies to Ensure Global Food Security: Leveraging New Approaches for Genetic Improvement". Hosted by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Aspen Institute. Bellagio, Italy
April 4, 2023. Invited Speaker, Shandong Institute for Technology and development.
Invited Speaker, JBEI retreat
January 27, 2023. Invited Speaker, Royal Swedish Academy
September 15-September 17, 2022. Keynote Speaker, “Breeding plants for tomorrow's world”. German Society for Plant Breeding (GPZ), Düsseldorf, Germany
October 12, 2022. Invited Speaker. Climate Tech, MIT
October 13, 2022. Invited Speaker. Breeding Crops for Resilience to a Changing Climate. Mount Holyoke
October 20, 2022. Keynote Speaker. Breeding Crops for Resilience to a Changing Climate. Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lectures. (Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech)
October 23-27, 2022. Keynote Speaker, International Congress on Plant Molecular Biology, Cairns, Queensland, Australia (CANCELLED)
Year, 2023, Invited Speaker, Carotenoids Gordon Research Conference, Ventura, California.
July 7, 2022. Keynote Speaker. The Power of CRISPR/Cas9-Based Technologies. the Center for Advanced Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich.
June 22-June 24. Invited Participant, The Breakthrough Institute.
June 16, 2022. Invited Speaker, The Wolf Prize Laureate Symposium, Knesset, Israel
June 15, 2022. Keynote Speaker, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
May 26, 2022. Invited speaker, Salk Institute Thursday Seminar Series, Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA
April 28- May 01, 2022. Invited Presentation, Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Sciences
April 22, 2022. Invited Speaker, Keystone Fellows Symposium.
April 8, 2022. Invited Speaker, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
March 18, 2022. Invited Speaker, UC Davis Postdoctoral fellow Symposium.
March 15-17, 2022. Keynote Speaker, “Breeding plants for tomorrow's world”. German Society for Plant Breeding (GPZ), Düsseldorf, German
March 1 and March 15, 2022. Invited Speaker, Cook County Book club
January 12, 2022. Invited Speaker, “Rice genetics and genomics”. Plant and Animal Genome XXIX Conference, San Diego, CA
January 11, 2022. Invited Speaker, "Kitbase: the rice Kitaake mutant database". Plant and Animal Genome XXIX Conference, San Diego, CA
January 11, 2022. Invited Speaker, "Rice genetic improvement", UCSD symposium.
December 8, 2021. Keynote Speaker, Genetically Modified Foods: A Scientific and Ethical Perspective, hosted by UNESCO and the National Bioethics Committee of Oman, Muscat, Oman.
November 13-16, 2021. Horizons Invited Speaker, 8th International PhD Student Symposium “Horizons in Molecular Biology". International Max Planck Research School for Molecular Biology Goettingen, Germany
November 7-10, 2021. Invited Speaker, Ron Phillips Plant Genetics Lectureship. A Creative Economy for Sustainable Development. ASA, CSSA and SSSA International Annual Meeting. Salt Lake City, UT
November 1, 2021. Invited Speaker, Tufts University Environmental Studies Program.
October 21, 2021. Invited Speaker, Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, Kansas City MO
October 21, 2021. Food for Fairness Summit, Davis CA
October 21, 2021. Invited Speaker, McCollum Colloquium, Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine
October 20, 2021. Invited Speaker, Bourlaug Dialogues, World Food Prize Foundation
October 15, 2021. Invited Speaker, Future Food Systems - The Role of Gene Editing in Crops, Kungl. Skogs-och Lantbruksakademiens, The Royal Swedish Agricultural Academy, Stockholm
October 13, 2021. Invited Speaker, Université Paris-Saclay
October 12, 2021. Invited Speaker, Plant Biotechnology and Society, Association Française pour les Biotechnologies Végétales, Goethe Institute, Paris
September 28, 2021. Invited Speaker, Genetic Editing for Our Food Future, Foodture Conference.
September 22, 2021. Guest Speaker, Introduction to Plant Improvement, University of Hilo.
September 14, 2021. Invited Speaker, 8th International PhD Student Symposium “Horizons in Molecular Biology”. International Max Planck Research School for Molecular Biology Goettingen, Germany
August 30, 2021. Invited Speaker, Science Diplomacy Interactive Webinar Series; Communication Strategies for Biotechnology at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference
August 20, 2021. Invited Speaker, Power Hungry Podcast.
August 5-8, 2021. Invited Speaker, 2020 International Conference on Molecular Plant Sciences. “From Fundamental Research to Agricultural Applications” Harbin China
July 26, 2021. Keynote Speaker, Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas Inaugural Conference, Universidad de Talca, Chile
June 29, 2021. 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM. KitBase Webinar. "An introduction to KitBase”.
June 21-25, 2021. Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Arabidopsis Research ICAR, Seattle WA
May 11, 2021. Invited Speaker, Innovations in Genetic Improvement of Agricultural Systems, Global Ag Innovation Forum.
April 26-27, 2021. Invited Speaker, Second Plant Systems Biology meeting
April 6-7, 2021. Invited Participant, IGI Climate Workshop: Genomic Innovation for Climate Impact
March 30, 2021. Invited Panelist, Forging New Paths to Science Literacy, National Academy of Sciences forum
March 21, 2021. Invited Speaker, STEM world the sequel, hosted by Education for All Foundation (EFA) and STEM Enrichment Youth (STEMEY)
March 8, 2021. Keynote Speaker, Plant Genome Engineering: From Lab to Field. Keystone Symposia (3/8)
March 5, 2021. Keynote Speaker, The Next Green Revolution: Challenges and Strategies towards a Sustainable Agriculture, 5th Annual MU Plant Research Symposium
March 3, 2021. Invited Speaker, Biology Seminar, Simon Fraser University
February 24th, 2021. 2020 Global Food Security Index Launch.
February 24, 2021. Invited Speaker, Biology Seminar, Simon Fraser University
February 3, 2021. Invited Speaker, Enhancing Food Security through Rice Genetic Improvement. Center for Desert Agriculture
December 8-9, 2020. Invited Speaker, 1st Indian Rice Congress-2020
December 2, 2020. Invited Speaker, “Molecular mimicry modulates plant host responses to pathogens”. International Society for Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions
November 30, 2020. Invited Speaker, World Agriculture Prize Laureate, Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations for the Agricultural and Life Sciences (GCHERA)
November 16, 2020. Invited Speaker, the Innovative Genomics Institute, UC Berkeley
November 10, 2020. Invited Speaker, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Canberra
November 6, 2020. Invited Speaker, “Climate change and its impact on food and agriculture”, Michigan State University AgBioResearch
November 4, 2020. Invited Speaker, Mind of a Scientist, Sonoma County Library and Orchard Valley School
October 19, 2020. Invited Speaker, Tufts University Environmental Sciences
October 1, 2020, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT. Invited Speaker, Agroecology: What is it, anyway?
September 30, 2020. Invited Speaker, Improving Food Security for the World’s Poorest Farmers: Plant Genetics and the Future of Food, Alumni Programs office at Reed College
September 23, 2020. Invited Speaker, Future Harvests, Cooper Climate Coalition , New York
September 18, 2020. Invited Speaker, Food & Science Festival with Italian farmer Deborah Piovan, Mantua, Italy
September 16, 2020. Invited Speaker, briefing to the Bundestag on GMOs/gene-editing and sustainability, hosted by Lucas Köhler, the German Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Consumer Choice Center
September 15, 2020 - 12:00 PM TO 1:00 PM EDT. Webinar. Gene Editing for the Climate: Biological Solutions for Curbing Greenhouse Emissions. Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Sept 11, 2020. Invited Speaker, Plant & Microbial Biology Department’s 30th Anniversary Celebration, Rausser College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley
September 11, 2020. Invited Speaker, “Engineering rice for tolerance to environmental stress and enhanced nutritional content”, CRISPR and Alternative Approaches, Advanced Genetics, Wiley
September 10, 2020. Invited Participant, 3rd Annual PGRP Awardee Meeting
August 19-22, 2020. Invited Speaker, 2020 Genome Engineering: CRISPR/Cas meeting, CSHL, NY
August 21, 2020. Invited Speaker, 2020 Genome Engineering: CRISPR/Cas meeting, CSHL, NY
August 8, 2020. American Phytopathological Society annual meeting. Plant Health online. “Molecular mimicry modulates plant host responses to pathogens”.
August 3-5, 2020. Invited Participant, Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation workshop
July 30, 2020. “Tips & Tricks for Digital Science Communication: Workshopping Your SciComm Goals, Audience, And Core Message”. Live at 4:00 -5:00 PM.
July 30, 2020. Invited Plenary Speaker, "Harnessing the potential of genome editing for tomorrow's agriculture”. The American Society of Plant Biology Annual Meeting
June 26, 2020. Virtual talk. Nobelist Sir Richard Roberts talks GMOs at CSHL hosted event.
June 19, 2020. Invited Participant, CSHL Center for the Humanities and History of Modern Biology with Rich Roberts
May 29, 2020. Invited Speaker, Cali Rice Fest, Davis, CA
May 7, 2020. Invited Speaker, Plant Gene Expression Center, USDA, Albany CA
May 6, 2020. Invited Speaker, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires. Strasbourg, France
April 29 - May 1, 2020. McCollum Symposium, Dartmouth College
April 25-28, 2020. Invited Presentation, 57th Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Sciences
April 17, 2020. Distinguished Speaker, Department of Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine
April 3-7, 2020. Keynote Speaker, Keystone Symposia on Plant Genome Engineering: From Lab to Field. Breckenridge, Colorado
April 1, Postponed, 2020. Invited Speaker, Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, Colorado State University
March 31, 2020. Invited Speaker, Collective Organization of Plant Scientist (CROPS), the Plant Science Innovation (PSI) Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Webinar.
February 13-16, 2020. Organizer and Speaker, “Tomorrow's Table: Plant Genetics and the Future of Food,” 2020 AAAS Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington
February 6, 2020. Invited Speaker, Plant Gene Expression Center, USDA, Albany CA
December 12, 2019. Invited Speaker, i3: ideas that inform and inspire, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
December 10-11, 2019. Invited Speaker, Life 2.0: the Promise and Challenge of a CRISPR Path to a Sustainable Planet. National Academy of Sciences Sackler Colloquium, Irvine, CA
November 13, 2019. Panelist, "Women in Ag", International Tropical Agriculture Conference 2019 (TropAg), Brisbane, Australia
November 11-13, 2019. Keynote Speaker, International Tropical Agriculture Conference 2019 (TropAg) , Brisbane, Australia
November 11, 2019. Invited Speaker, "Engineering crops for resistance to disease and tolerance to environmental stress", Australian National University, hosted by the Research School of Biology Plant Science Department, Canberra, Australia
November 4, 2019. Invited Speaker, Dialogues and Discourse in Science and Society: Science and the Social License, hosted by the John Muir Institute of the Environment and the World Food Center, UC Davis
October 24-25, 2019. Keynote Address, University of Georgia Plant Center, Athens, GA
October 22, 2019. Invited Speaker, Adolph E. Waller Memorial Lecture Series, Ohio State University
October 18, 2019. Keynote Speaker, Tufts Food Systems Symposium
October 16-18, 2019. Organizer, Plant Genomes in Changing Environment, “Enhancing abiotic stress tolerance in rice”, Wellcome Genome Campus Conference Centre, Hinxton, Cambridge, England
October 3-5, 2019. Invited Speaker, Swedish Agricultural University
September 25, 2019. Institute on Science for Global Policy, The Forum "#NextGenFood: Innovation You Can Eat”
September 11, 2019. Invited Speaker, University of Connecticut, Storrs
August 18-23, 2019. Invited Keynote Address, Walter Orr Roberts Memorial Public Lecture, Ecosystem and Health impacts of Pests and Pathogens in a Changing Climate, Aspen Global Change Institute
August 3, 2019. Invited Keynote Address, Annual meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists, 2019 Leadership in Science Public Service Award “Serving up Science: Engaging the Public on Plant Biology and the Future of Food”
July 23, 2019. Invited Keynote Address. 1st International Wheat Congress. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
July 21, 2019. Invited Keynote Address, Annual meeting of The Agricultural & Applied Economics Association. Atlanta, GA
June 19-21, 2019. Invited Participant, The Breakthrough Institute, Sausalito, CA
June 2-5, 2019. Invited Plenary Speaker, The Seminar, Napa, CA
May 29, 2019. Organizer and speaker, Bay Area Meeting of Tomato Plant Pathology (BAMTOPP), UC Berkeley
May 24, 2019. Invited Speaker, “The genetic basis of disease resistance in rice”. UC Berkeley Plant Genome Engineering Symposium
May 22, 2019. Moderator and organizer, Innovation Institute for Foods and Health, “Communicating Science”, UC Davis
May 10, 2019. Invited Panelist, Zare Science Forum on the Future of Food, Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, CA
April 24, 2019. Invited Speaker, The BioDiscovery Institute, The University of North Texas
April 15, 2019. Convocation Speaker, Augsburg University, Minneapolis, MN
April 11, 2019. Invited Panelist, Women in STEM Symposium, UC Davis
March 12, 2019. Invited Speaker, The Future of Food Meetup, SXSW, Austin, TX
March 10, 2019. Invited Speaker, 2019 California Agribusiness Executive Seminar, Balboa Bay Resort, Newport Beach, CA
February 25, 2019. Invited Speaker, Tufts University class “Sustainable Agriculture and the role of biotechnology”. Hosts Sara Gomez and Colin Orians
February 11, 2019. Presidential Dream Public Lecture, University of Oklahoma
January 29-31, 2019. Invited Speaker, Oceans and Climate Change, Stanford University, CA
January 15-18, 2019. Invited Panelist, "Plant Genetics and the Future of Food", Air Liquide Scientific Challenge Advisory, Paris, France
December 7, 2018. Invited Speaker, STEM Equity and Success Initiative, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA. This program seeks to increase the enrollment and success of Latina/o and economically disadvantaged students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math programs in their transition from high school to college and ultimately degree completion, transfer, and career opportunity.
December 3, 2018. Invited Speaker, Advanced Plant Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University Symposium, UC Davis
November 29, 2018. Invited Speaker, "Applications of Genome Editing," Genome Center Strategic Planning Retreat, Winters, CA
November 9, 2018. Invited Participant, UC Berkeley Innovative Genomics Institute
November 5, 2018. Invited Speaker, LAW 285C "Food and Agricultural Law," UC Davis Law School
October 26, 2018. Invited Speaker, Davis Senior High School's Women in Stem Club, Davis, CA
October 25, 2018. Emcee, The Quarter Century Club, UC Davis
October 23, 2018. Invited Speaker, RST 11 "Ethical Eating", UC Davis
October 10, 2018. Invited Speaker, Dept. of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Lausanne, “The microbial peptide RaxX activates Rice XA21-mediated immunity and root growth”, Lausanne, Switzerland
October 9, 2018. Invited Speaker, University of Geneva Life Science Seminar Series.“Serving up Science: Plant Genetics and the Future of Food”, Geneva, Switzerland
October 8, 2018. Invited Speaker, The Gregor Mendel Institute. “The microbial peptide RaxX activates Rice XA21-mediated immunity and root growth”, Vienna, Austria
September 2018. The Don Rix Distinguished Keynote address, Genome British Columbia, “Serving up Science: Plant Genomics and the Future of Food”, Vancouver Convention Center, Canada
September 11, 2018. Invited Panelist, “Environmental Orthodoxies That Warrant Re-evaluation”, hosted by UC Hastings School of Law, UC Global Climate Leadership Council, San Francisco
August 7, 2018. Keynote Speaker, International Plant Molecular Biology Congress meeting, The microbial peptide RaxX activates Rice XA21-mediated immunity, Montpellier, France
July 23, 2018. Invited Speaker, Hosted by Tufts University Environmental Studies Program
July 20, 2018. Invited Speaker, “The microbial peptide RaxX activates Rice XA21-mediated immunity and root growth” Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton
June 22- June 24, 2018. Participant and Speaker, “Rice CRISPRies and other bioengineered crops: Facts, Fears and Future”, Scifoo, Google
June 20- June 22, 2018. Host, “Sustainable Gastronomy: How do we feed a planet of 9 billion without destroying the environment?”, Breakthrough Dialogs, Cavallo Point
June 8, 2018. Invited Speaker, Green Mountain Valley School, Community College of Vermont, Winooski, VT
June 4- June 7, 2018. Keystone presentation, The Fifth Annual Synthetic Biology, Engineering, Evolution, and Design (SEED 2018) meeting, Scottsdale, AZ
May 31, 2018. Invited Participant. “Transformation of the Human”. Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS)
May 24th, 2018, @ 12:00 PM, Speaker, “Serving up science: plant genetics and the future of food", University of California, Agricultural and Natural resources UC Nutrition Policy Institute, 2115 Milvia St. Berkeley, California. 4th-floor large conference room
May 16, 2018. Organizer and Panelist, Food Evolution Screening, Stanford University
May 9, 2018, @12:00 PM, Serving up Science: Plant Genetics and the Future of Food , Law School, Stanford University
May 3, 2018. Invited guest, “The Scientific Life", Carl Schurz High School, 3601 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, IL
May 2- May 4, 2018. “Can Genetic Technologies Advance Sustainable Agriculture? Perspectives from Research and the Farm”. The Center for Genetic Medicine of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern, Chicago
April 25, 2018. Invited Speaker, Carnegie Institute of Plant Biology, Stanford, CA
April 24, 2018. Speaker and Organizer, Food and Agriculture: A Global Conversation, Walter A. Buehler Alumni Center, Davis, CA
April 11, 2018. Speaker, Conference on World Affairs, Boulder, Colorado
April 6-7, 2018. The Double Helix: Creation, Complexity, Consciousness, and the Cosmos. Cold Spring Harbor, New York
March 21, 2018. Food Evolution film screening, The Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA
March 9, 2018. SXSW Special Event. “The Food Effect”, Austin, Texas
March 6, 2018. Keynote speaker, The Case For Engineering Our Food, The Second Annual Rachel Carson Science, Technology & Society Lecture, Pacific Lutheran University (PLU), Tacoma, Washington
February 16, 2018. Invited speaker, Dept Plant Biology (flyer), UT Austin, Texas
February 8, 2018. Keynote speaker, 2017-18 Distinguished Convocation Speaker Series at Berea College, Berea, Kentucky
February 7, 2018. Stretch leadership conference for young farmers, Mankota, MI
January 21-24, 2018. Invited Speaker. Plant Signaling: Molecular Pathways and Network Integration. Keystone Symposia, North Tahoe
January 17, 2018. Invited Speaker, “Serving Up Science: Plant Genetics and the Future of Food”. Santa Clara University, California
December 5, 2017. Hsien-wen Li Lectureship, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
November 27, 2017. 15:00-18:00. Global advisory board meeting, Porto, Portugal.
November 13, 2017. Guest speaker at The Rotary Club of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, California
November 13-14, 2017. Carnegie/Stanford Plant Biology Retreat, Asilomar
November 8, 2017. Invited Speaker, Napa Valley Film Festival, Napa, California (canceled)
November 7, 2017. 6PM. A special screening of the film, "FEAST ON FACTS". The Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco, California
October 27, 2017. Invited Participant, Genome Institute Open House, Energy Bioscience Building, UC Berkeley, California
October 23, 2017. Invited Speaker, Perception and Reality for the Future of Food: Biotechnology in Sustainable Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo, Chicago, Illinois. Sponsored by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
October 16, 2017. Invited Speaker, Plant Biology Club, University of California, Davis
October 11, 2017. Invited Speaker, Leading the Transformation of Humanity: People as the Center of Technological Evolution. “Serving up Science: Plant Genetics and the Future of Food”, Toulouse, France
October 1, 2017. Screening Food Evolution. Delancey Street Theater, San Francisco, CA
September 20, 2017. Panelist, Food Evolution Film screening, Roxy Theater. San Francisco, CA
September 19, 2017. 1:00 PM. Water challenges in Asia and innovative solutions, Club DEMETER, Sacramento
September 14, 2017. Invited Speaker, Innovations for Crop Productivity, Research for long term impact and women in science. International Center for Tropical Agriculture 50th anniversary celebration. Cali, Columbia
September 13, 2017. Invited Speaker, Claremont colleges Distinguished Speaker. Hosted by the biology departments at the five undergraduate colleges
August 5-10, 2017. Participant, Exploring Life workshop, Princeton
August 3-4, 2017. Keynote Speaker, Statewide Women in Agriculture, Moore Norman Technology Center, Oklahoma State University,Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
June 30, 2017. Panel Discussion following the Los Angeles theatrical premiere of the documentary film, Food Evolution at Laemmle Monica Film Center, Santa Monica
June 13, 2017. Invited Speaker, Genetic Engineering in Agriculture: Science, Policy & Law, hosted by the Agribusiness Committee of the California State Bar Business Law Section, UC Davis
June 2, 2017. Invited Speaker, Brain Bar Festival, Budapest, Hungary
May 31-June 2, 2017. 1st ICABR Conference "Bioeconomy in Transition: New Players and New Tools", University of California, Berkeley
May 16-18, 2017. Production – How do agricultural producers balance rising energy costs with the need for safe, sustainable, and affordable products? the Innovation Institute for Food and Health, University of California, Davis
May 12, 2017. Plant genetics and the Future of Food, 2017 West Coast Food & Commodity Summit, University of California, Davis
May 10, 2017 Invited speaker, "Microbial production of a sulfopeptide that mimics a plant peptide hormone", 1022 Life Sciences, UC Davis
May 2, 2017. Invited panelist, Food Evolution Film Screening, Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, University of California, Davis
April 28, 2017. Invited speaker, Syracuse University Biology Deptartment, New York
April 28, 2017. Invited speaker, Syracuse University Biology Graduate Student Organization, New Yorkspan
April 27, 2017. The Jack and Pat Bryan Distinguished Lecture at the Syracuse University annual spring Life Sciences Symposium.Syracuse University Biology Graduate Student Organization, New York
April 25, 2017. Key note speaker, Paine Schwartz Partners, -2017 Annual Meeting, New York, NY
April 22, 2017. Speaker at March For Science Rally, Justin Herman Plaza, San Francisco, California
April 18, 2017. “Plant breeding and the future of food", Feedstocks Division Annual Meeting, Cavallo Point, Sausalito, California
April 13, 2017 Invited speaker, Impossible foods
April 6, 2017. “Ethics in Research” hosted by Mark Yarborough, Dean's Professor of Bioethics, Bioethics Program; University of California Davis Medical Center, Davis
March 13, 2017, 4:00 PM. Panel discussion, "Setting the Table for 9 Billion: Sustainability and Food Security for 2050”, Mondavi center, University of California, Davis
February 16, 2017. Farrell Distinguished Public Policy lecture. University of Guelph,Ontario, Canada.
February 7, 2017. Keynote Speaker, North Dakota Soybean Council, North Dakota
January 18, 2017. Tomorrow’s Table: Ecologically-based Farming, Plant Genetics and the Future of food. Center on Food Security and the Environment's Food and Nutrition Policy symposium, Stanford University
November 8-12, 2016. Keystone Symposium on Phytobiomes: From Microbes to Plant Ecosystems, being held at the Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
November 7, 2016. Guest speaker, Food and Agricultural Law, King hall, UC-Davis, Davis
October 21, 2016. 12h30-15h30. Invited Speaker, "Déjeuner-débat exceptionnel «Sécurité alimentaire : rencontre avec trois grandes dames de la recherche internationale»", Paris
October 19, 2016. Invited Speaker, “Trois grandes dames de la recherche agronomique internationale", Paris
September 15-16, 2016. Innovation Institute For Food & Health, Half moon bay, CA
September 13, 2016. 5:30-7:30 PM. UC Davis College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, San Francisco, CA
August 21, 2016. Keynote Speaker, 28th International Conference of Pediatrics, Vancouver, Canada (Speaking fee and travel paid for by Monsanto)
July 13, 2016. Plenary speaker, Genetics Society of America, Orlando, Florida
June 29, 2016. Invited Speaker, When Science Isn’t Enough: Communicating in a Complex World, 20th Anniversary of International Consortium of Applied Bioeconomy Research, Ravello, Italy
June 28, 2016. Invited Speaker, Bioscience Research and Technology: The Next 20 Years, 20th Anniversary of International Consortium of Applied Bioeconomy Research, Ravello, Italy
May 5-9, 2016. The Beutler Institute, Xiamen University, China
April 19, 2016. UCLA’s Institute of the Environment Sustainability: “the Oppenheim Series”: How important will GMO crops or food be in our diets in 2050? UCLA, Los Angeles, California
March 4, 2016. UC Davis Plant Biology Graduate group departmental seminar; student and postdoc invited speaker, UC Davis, Davis, California
February 12-15, 2016. AAAS Annual Meeting, Washington
February 11, 2016. Hayes-Phillips Lectureship, Dept of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
February 1, 2016.“The Public Face of Science” hosted by American Academy of Arts and Sciences with Jennifer Doudna on gene editing and Richard Muller on climate change, The Great Hall at the Berkeley Faculty Club. 6 pm, Berkeley, California
December 2, 2015. Paths of Science and Development Symposium Hosted by the academic group CIB Brazil, Council for Information on Biotechnology with support from Public and industry organizations such as BNDES, CNPq, FAPESP and Finep, São Paulo, Brazil
November 19, 2015.TEDMED “Food Fix”, Palm Springs, California
November 7, 2015. Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics: Plant genetics, food and farming, DMG Mori auditorium, Davis, California
October 10, 2015. Farm to Table Academy, Davis, California
November 4, 2015. The Heidelberg Forum on Science and Society, Print Media Academy, Kurfürsten-Anlage 52-60, Heidelberg
November 3, 2015. Young researcher-invited speaker Excellence Cluster on Plant Science, (CEPLAS), Cologne, Germany
October 5, 2015. Science Scholars Lecture, University of Auckland, NZ
October 1, 2015. Annals of Botany Lecture, Australian Society of Plant Scientists, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in Melbourne, Australia
September 10, 2015. Plant genetics, organic farming and sustainable agriculture with RW Adamchak and PC Ronald at TEDMED2015
August 31, 2015. International biotechnology symposium, Bloomington Illinois
June 27-29, 2015. Sci Foo, Google
June 23-25, 2015. Breakthrough Dialogue 2015: The Good Anthropocene
June 8, 2015. Keynote address, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janella campus
June 3rd and 4th, 2015. Food for a Healthy World: Monitoring Progress toward Sustainable Food Security, University of California, Davis
June 3rd, 2015. Institute for Food and Agricultural Literacy Symposium
May 31-June 3, 2015. Biotech literacy project
May 29, 2015. JBEI retreat
May 28, 2015. Impact of Gurdev Khush on plant genetics and food security, Khush Symposium in Plant Genetics and Breeding, Plant Breeding for Food Security, UC Davis Conference Center, University of California, Davis
May 21, 2015. TALK: Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics and the Future of Food, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara
May 20 2015. The Rupe Debate, University of California, Santa Barbara
May 19, 2015. Guest lecture, GDB 90, Introduction to Global Disease Biology
May 14, 2015. Center for Systems Biology room B-103 of the Northwest Lab Building on 52 Oxford Street, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
May 11, 2015. Boyce Thomson Institute, Cornell University, NY
May 11, 2015. Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics and the Future of Food, Vassar College, NY
May 5, 2015. Guest lecture SAS20, Genetics and society, UC Davis
March 19, 2015. Student session at TED2015
March 18, 2015. Embracing both genetically improved seed and ecologically based farming methods to enhance sustainable agriculture, Pamela Ronald engineers rice for resistance to disease and tolerance of environmental stress. TED 2015
February 2015. Vassar College, NY
February 4 and 9, 2015. Virginia Tech, Virginia.
January 23, 2015. The rice immune receptor XA21 recognizes a tyrosine sulfated peptide from aGram-negative bacterium, Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Plant Biology, Stanford, CA.
December 10, 2014. Tomorrow's Table: Organic farming, genetics and the future of food. City Hall Tavern, Davis, CA.
November 16-19, 2014. 12th International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics, Tucson.
October 24, 2014. The Berkeley Festival of Ideas, Berkeley, CA
October 15-16, 2014. Joint BioEnergy Institute, Feedstocks Division Annual Retreat, Marshall, CA
October 9, 2014. San Fedele EXPO 2015, "FOOD, ENVIRONMENT and LIFE STYLES", Milan
October 6-10, 2014. The Global Food Ethics Project, Johns Hopkins, Berman Institute of Bioethics, Milan, Italy.
October 6, 2014. Meeting of the Valagro Internation Scientific Committee, together with Valagro Top Management and R&S Division team and The European House Ambrosetti working group, Milano
September 25, 2014. "Organic Farming, Genetics and the Future of Food", Vassar college
September 24-26, 2014. "Engineering crops for tolerance to stress and resistance to disease", Donald Danforth center, St Louis, MO
September 24, 2014. Cultivating the Middle Ground in the GM Food Debate, Monsanto
September 4, 2
014, 2:00p.m. Understanding the Science of Genetically Engineered Crops, Washington.
August 17-21, 2014. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
July 14, 2014. Invited Speaker, American Society of Plant Biologists 2014 President's Symposium-Firsts in Plant Science, Portland, OR
July 13, 2014. American Society of Plant Biologists 2014 Symposiun III 21st Century Challenge: Feeding 9 Billion, Portland, Oregon
July 10, 2014. Joint Bioenergy Institute, Annual Retreat, Sonoma, CA
July 2, 2014. "Feeding a Hungry Planet". Chautauqua institution in partnership with National Geographic Society. Chautauqua, N.Y.
June 20, 2014. Biffen Lecture John Innes Institute
June 19, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge
June 5, 2014. Read College, Portland Oregon.
May 5, 2014. SynBioBeta Cultured Food Forum, San Francisco
April 29, 2014. 31st Arthur G. Rempel Lecture, Whitman College
April 14. Invited Speaker, Plant genetics, "GMOs" and sustainable agriculture. Hosted by Michael Pollan
April 4, 2014. “Feeding the World: The Role of Sustainability and Biotechnology within the Global Agricultural Landscape", CA Dietetic Association Annual Meeting, Pomona, CA
April 1-3, 2014. Networks in Plant Immunity Symposium, UC Davis
March 28, 2014. AgDay at the Capitol, Information Briefing on Agricultural coexistance, Honolulu, Hawaii
March 13, 2014. Department of environmental science, policy and management, UC Berkeley
March 18-20, 2014. Invited Speaker, Whole genome sequencing of rice mutants to identify genes controlling response to stress and cell wall saccharification, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA
March 4, 2014. Invited Speaker, UCSF Mission Bay Distinguished Lecture Series, “Engineering Resistance to bacterial infection and tolerance to environmental stress"
March 3, 2014. Invited Speaker, UCSF Mission Bay Distinguished Lecture Series, Science Beyond the Lab:
Engaging the Public, Promoting Science-Based Policy, and Improving Lives ”
February 26, 2014. Feelings, Facts, Food and GMOs – A Fresh Look. Pace University "FoodYou".
February 18, 2014. 9 am-10 am PST, Live Event – ‘Ask Me Anything’ session with Prof. Pamela Ronald and staff.
February 7, 2014. Invited Speaker, "Lablife: Sharing discoveries and overcoming obstacles", Career Development Workshop, Keystone Symposia, Breckenridge, CO
February 9, 2014. Invited Speaker, Plant Signaling: Dynamic Properties, Breckenridge, Colorado
February 10, 2014. 10:30 am to 12:00 pm (EST). Invited Speaker, at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Washington DC
February 10, 2014. 2 pm, Invited Speaker, at Bureau for Food Security| U.S. Agency for International Development.
January 31, 2014. Featured Speaker, Engineering Resistance to Bacterial Infection Using Plant Immune Receptors, GTC Inaugural Innate Immunity Conference, Wyndham San Diego Bayside in San Diego, CA
December 12, 2013, “Lablife: The Anatomy of a Retraction”, host: Mark Yarborough, PhD, Dean’s Professor of Bioethics, Bioethics Program University of California Davis Medical School.
December 4, 2013, “Can today´s scientists grow food better than farmers?”, host: the Royal Institute of Technology – KTH and Stockholm University.
November 12, 2013. Mary Snow Lecture, University of Oxford, Department of Plant Sciences
November 5, 2013. Invited Speaker, The Future of Plant Breeding, European Parliament, Brussels
November 4-5, 2013. Bayer 150th Anniversary Symposium, Leverkusen, Germany
November 2-3, 2013. Invited Speaker, 11th Genoa Science Festival , Genoa
October 15, 2013. Invited Speaker, Association for the Advancement of Industrial Crops, WA DC
October 14, 2013. Invited Speaker, American University, Center for Food Studies, Washington DC
October 1-2, 2013. Keynote Speaker, Food, Farming and Genetics. First Annual Feedstocks Retreat, Marshall, CA
September 12-13, 2013. 2nd Annual International Conference on Genomics in the Americas, 10:20am, on the topic of agriculture, Sacramento
August 13-15, 2013. Invited Speaker, Conference on Food and Farming, Santa Fe
July 16, 2013. North Carolina Biotechnology Center High school teacher workshop
July 11, 2013. Invited Speaker, Singularity University
June 20, 2013. INRA UMR A 408 “ Securite et Qualite des Produits d’Origine Vegetale“, Avignon, France
June 6-9, 2013. Invited Speaker, UC Berkeley Miller Symposium, Marconi Center
May 30, 2013. Invited Speaker, Center for Genetics of Host Defense, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
May 9, 2013. Host-microbe interactions, The UC Davis Genome Center, 12:10pm
May 3, 2013. “How can we feed the world’s growing population without further destroying the environment?” An Evening with the Genome Center, Pence Gallery, 7:30p, Davis
April 23-24, 2013. Inaugural speaker for the BASF/NCSU Molecular Biotechnology Symposium
April 7-12, 2013. Invited Speaker, Keystone Symposia meeting on Plant Immunity: Pathways and Translation, in Big Sky, Montana, USA
March 21, 2013. Invited Speaker. Food: nutrition, nutritionism, energy, and the environment. Speciesism and the Future of Humanity: Biology, Culture, and Sociopolitics, Hosted by Stanford Center for Conservation Biology and the Berkeley Department of Integrative Biology
February 20, 2013. Arcadia Biosciences, Davis, CA
February 15-19, 2013. Keynote Speaker, Food 3000, Vancouver, British Columbia PDF1 PDF2 ("Speaking fee and travel paid for by Monsanto")
February 13, 2013. Heuermann Lectures, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
January 23, 2013. Climate Change Adaptation Consortium, CDFA, Seaside, CA
January 8-9, 2013. Plant Science Research Summit, Howard Hughes Medical Center
December 12, 2012. “The genetic basis for immunity and flood tolerance in rice”. The Institute de Biologie Moleculaire des Plantes, Strasbourg
December 5, 2012. Meeting of the Scientific advisors, Valagro, Milan
November 19, 2012. Keynote Speaker, Les mécanismes des interactions biotiques entre micro-organismes, Keynote Address Food, farming and genetics. Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France. Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair Université de Montpellier 2 and the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
November 15, 2012. Sponsors Showcase 5-6 pm at the Mission City Ballroom in the Santa Clara Convention center and Tech Awards Gala
November 14, 2012. Keynote event at the Hackworth IMAX DOME theater. Hosted by President Tim Ritchie, President of The Tech Museum, San Jose
October 27-31, 2012. Louis Malassis International Scientific Prize for Agriculture and Food award ceremony, Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development, Punte del esta, Uruguay
October 3, 2012. Invited Speaker, BASF symposium, Ghent
October 3-5, 2012. Nature conference to explore recent advances in plant biology and biotechnology, Ghent, Belgium
August 31, 2012. Invited speaker, “ Engineering rice for resistance to disease and tolerance to stress”, Uppsala University and Swedish agricultural university sponsored by The Linnean Centre for Plant Biology in Uppsala, The research programs Future Agriculture and MistraBiotech
August 30, 2012. “ Sustainable agriculture – does it need modern biotech?”, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Kungl. Skogs- och Lantbruksakademien, Drottninggatan 95 B, Stockholm, Sweden
July 12, 2012. Invited speaker. The Great Debate- The Battle to Feed a Growing Planet, Sponsored by the Irish Science & Technology Journalists Association and Alchemist Café, Dublin
July 11-14, 2012. Plenary speaker, Euroscience, Dublin
July 9-11, 2012. Keynote speaker, The Xanthomonas Genomics Conference, Angers, France
June 18, 2012. “Skeptic Check: OMG, GMO?”, Big Picture Science
June 2, 2012. Conservation Remix, Seattle, Washington
May 22, University of Georgia Department of Plant Biology
May 18, 2012. Foods for Health Institute, UC Davis
April 20, 2012. Modern Tools in Plant Breeding, sponsored in part by Pioneer Hi-Bred. UC Davis
April 5th, 2012. Roundtable Discussion on Principles of Genetic Engineering to be held at the FDA/Center for Veterinary Medicine, Rockville, Maryland
April 1-3, 2012. Cornell Symposium on Frontiers in the Life Sciences, Ithaca, New York
March 26-28, 2012. Fifth Berkeley Bioeconomy Conference, U.C. Berkeley Alumni House
February 29, 2012. NPR’s Big Picture Science
February 9, 2012. 5-7:30pm - Seed Central keynote speaker on Plant Disease. Buehler Alumni and Visitor Center, UC Davis
February 6, 2012. Ricenet: Network guided prediction of genes controlling the rice defense response, 10 am in 5206 GBSF, UCDavis.
January 25, 2012. “A Symposium on the Evolution of Common Molecular Pathways Underlying Innate Immunity”, Murray B. Gardner Research Seminar Series. Center for Comparative Medicine, UC Davis
January 18, 2012. Invited Speaker, Microbe Interaction Session at 20th Plant & Animal Genomics International conference. “The rice XA21 receptor recognizes a conserved bacterial signaling molecule”. San Diego
January 17, 2012. Invited Speaker, Systems Genomics workshop, at the 20th Plant & Animal Genomics International conference, “RIceNet: a systems approach to elucidating the biotic stress response.” San Diego
January 17, 2012. Invited Speaker, Genomics-Assisted Breeding, at the 20th Plant & Animal Genomics International conference “From seed to lab to farm: the story of Submergence tolerant rice”. San Diego
January 10, 2012. Pacific Seed Association meeting
December 14, 2011. Genome Center. Noon
November 29, 2011. Panel Discussion on Cropping Systems for the Future, 4:10p, 248 Asmundsen Hall, UC Davis
November 15, 2011. The rice biotic stress response, Chengdu University, Chengdu, China
November 13, 2011. Invited Speaker, The Second International Conference on Biotic Plant Interactions, Kunming, China
November 11, 2011. Invited Speaker, Yonsei University
November 7-9, 2011. Plenary Speaker, 9th International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics, Taipei, Taiwan
November 2, 2011. Live Chat with Dr. Pamela Ronald and Michael Dimock on Biotech Seeds. Hosted by U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance, UC Davis
October 11, 2011. Recognition and Response In Innate Immunity.UCSF
September 30, 2011. Invited Speaker. Plant Phosphorylation meeting, Granlibakken, Tahoe
September 26, 2011. Presidential council of advisors on science and technology, Washington DC
September 22, 2011. The Food Dialogues, hosted by the U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance. UC Davis or New York City
September 19-22, 2011. University of Saskatchewan, Canada
September 8, 2011. Keynote Speaker, The 2011 Bioscience Vision Summit, BioForward’s annual conference. Madison Marriott West in Middleton, Wisconsin
September 7, 2011. The Innate Immune Response: Recognition of Conserved Microbial Signatures. Special Seminar, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium. University of Wisconsin-Madison
August 26, 2011. AgraQuest, Davis, CA
August 12-14, 2011. Google Science Foo Camp, MountainView, CA
July 20, 2011. JBEI Scientific Advisory Board meeting
July 18, 2011. Collaborative Research & Education in Agricultural Technologies & Engineering – Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship talk. UC Davis
July 14, 2011. JBEI Industrial Advisory Board meeting
June 22, 2011. United States State Department. The role of genetic improvement and farming practices in the future of food
June 21, 2011. Charles Valentine Riley Lecture, Sponsored by AAAS, the World Food Prize committee and the Charles Valentine Riley Foundation. AAAS building, 1200 New York Avenue, WA DC. 3:30 pm.
May 16, 2011. Agricultural biotechnology and public policy. UC Davis
May 12, 2011. Emeriti Association lunch meeting, UC Davis
May 6, 2011. “Dynamics: From Data to Models”. 10th Annual Symposium of the New York University Center for Genomics and Systems Biology New York, NY
May 4, 2011. Feeding the Future Colloquium. Keynote lecture. Michigan State University
April 11, 2011. Department of Energy, Genome Sciences Meeting, “The Switchgrass Genome”. Arlington, VA
March 28, 2011. Invited Speaker, Dept Biology, Stanford University, CA
March 25, 2011. KPMG Luncheon Presentation – Directors meeting, Auckland, New Zealand
March 24, 2011. The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited, Auckland, New Zealand
March 23, 2011. NZBIO Conference, Sponsored by the Royal Society of New Zealand. Auckland, New Zealand
March 22, 2011. Tomorrow’s Table, Sponsored by the Royal Society of New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand
March 14, 2011. Food Quality Traits Sustaining Agriculture for the 21st Century. UC Davis
February 18, 2011. “Recognition and response in innate immunity” Genetics Graduate Group. Center for Companion Animal Health Bennett Conference Room, UC Davis
February 15, 2011. Biotech Plants and Animals. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Princeton Environmental Institute
February 8-10, 2011. Joint Bioenergy Institute retreat, Sonoma, CA
Jan 18, 2011. 3:50 pm – 6:00: Perennial Grass workshop at PAG XIX, “Overview of the switchgrass genome sequencing project”
January 17-19, 2011. Elucidating plant and animal innate immunity: pathogen recognition and response. Plant and Animal Genome XIX
January 12, 2011. 4:00 p.m. UC Davis Chancellor’s Colloquium Series, Panel discussion with Dr. Roger Beachy, director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), at the Larry and Rosalie Vanderhoef Studio Theatre in the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.
November 22, 2010. The Dr. Oz show, New York City
November 15-16, 2010. Engineering New Crop Varieties Adapted to Rapid Climate Change. Governors’ Global Climate Summit 3. The Mondavi Center.
November 10, 2010. UCSF Biomedical Sciences Seminar Series. San Francisco, CA
November 8, 2010. Recognition and response in Xa21-mediated innate immunity. Department of Biology, Colorado State University.
November 7, 2010. Thornton-Massa Lecture at Colorado State University . Fort Collins, Colorado.
November 6, 2010. Sustainable Agriculture Forum, 3-6pm, Silver Creek High School. Boulder County Parks and Open Space. Colorado (download flyer)
September 30, 2010. USDA – National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Washington DC (download flyer)
September 29, 2010. Department of Energy, Washington DC
September 17, 2010. UC Davis Department of Plant Pathology Retreat. Davis, CA
September 15, 2010. iBioseminar, UC San Francisco
September 10, 2010. Keynote lecture UC Berkeley Department of Plant and Microbial Biology Retreat. Marconi Center, Point Reyes.
August 25, 2010. California State Board of Food and Agriculture meeting.
August 17, 2010. Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul South Korea
August 12, 2010. Seminar, Kyung hee University
August 11, 2010. Seminar in National Academy of Agricultural Science, RDA (Dr. Deokju Hwang)
August 4-6, 2010.Tomorrow’s Table (Raoul Adamchak) will serve on a panel at “Techonomy” (Aug. 4-6) at Lake Tahoe. The meeting, titled , will be attended by a broad mix of business leaders, academics and others, including Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt (Google CEO), Jeff Bezos (Amazon CEO), Willie Smits, Stewart Brand, Amory Lovins, Prabhu Pingali, and about 200 others.
July 25-29. 2010. “Bridges to Sustainability” – Aspen Environmental Forum. Aspen, Colorado.
July 18-23, 2010. Gordon conference, Plant Molecular Biology. Holderness, NH
July 14, 2010. Gates Foundation 10-11am: Town Square Dialogue
June 1-2, 2010. JBEI IAC
June 3-6, 2010. World Science Festival – Feeding a hungry World. NYC
June 3, 2010. Modern MacGyvers: Innovations for a Developing World. World Science Festival, 7-8:30pm, Museum of Arts and Design, New York City
June 4, 2010. Food 2.0: Feeding a Hungry World. World Science Festival, 7-8:30pm, Baruch Performing Arts Center (Engelman), New York City
May 20, 2010. Cooking for Solutions 2010 – Sustainable Foods Institute. Monterey Bay Aquarium.Covered by The Washington Times
May 5, 2010. When Politics Impedes Progress to Combat Hunger – BIO International Convention. Chicago
May 5, 2010. Biotech Nation, a NPR weekly program focusing on the impact of technology, science, the media and Internet, radio interview.
March 17, 2010 Keystone conference, Granlibakken
March 5, 2010. Gabriel Lester Memorial Lecture, Reed College
February 1, 2010. Key note address. Association of Applied Ecologists, Napa
January 13, 2010. Maine Department of Agriculture, Maine Vegetable and Small Fruit Growers Association. Wednesday, January 13, 2010, Augusta Civic Center, Augusta, Maine
January 7. Scripps Research Institute, San Diego
December 12, 2009. Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak featured on The Food Chain, a newstalk radio program.
December 4, 2009. Dept Genetics, Development and Cell Biology Department, Iowa State
December 3, 2009. Host Greg Shanley talks with Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak authors of the book, “Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics and the Future of Food.” Iowa Public Radio.
December 2, 2009. Sustainable Agriculture Symposium, Iowa State University
November 7, 2009. Key Note Address. Food, sustainability and plant science: a global challenge,Heidelberg, Germany
October 25-30, 2009. 9th International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology, St Louis
October 19, 2009. National Association of Science Writers Award Dinner, Austin, Texas.
October 7, 2009. California Wheat Collaborative, UC Davis.
September 30, 2009. Department of Energy JBEI site visit
September 22, 2009. Carnegie Institute of Science Dept Plant Biology, Stanford
September 16, 2009. Workshop on rice sustainability, Mars Inc. Washington DC
September 14, 2009. U.S. State Department Conference “Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: What Will It Take.
September 10, 2009. “Coexistence and Synergy with Traditional Agricultures” at Yale’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. Yale University
September 9, 2009. Broad Institute. The Joint Bioenergy Institute.
July 28, 2009. Seminars About Long-term Thinking (SALT) organized by The Long Now Foundation. Organically grown/genetically engineered: The food of the future. Doors open 7:00pm, talk at 7:30pm lasting ~1.5 hours. Cowell Theatre in Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, California
July 8, 2009. Presentation to Maura O’Neill the newly appointed Senior Advisor for Energy and Climate and Dr. Raj Smith Undersecretary of Research, Education and Economics for the Department of Agriculture
July 1, 2009. 6th World Conference of Science Journalists, Stories that matter to a changing world, London
June 23, 2009. University of Rome
June 26, 2009. John Innes Center, Norwich, UK
May 22, 2009. Telluride Mountain Film Festival
May 11-12, 2009. Seed Biotechnology symposium, UC Davis
May 5, 2009, 1-3pm. Organic Farming, Genetics and the Future of Food, Partnership to cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa. 499 S. Capitol Street, SW Ste# 500B, Washington, D.C. 20003
May 4, 2009. Genes to Products – Agricultural Plant, Microbe, and Biobased Product Research. Bethesda, MD at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center.
April 15, 2009. Reed College centennial celebration, San Francisco
March 1, 2009. Tasting Histories; Food and Drink through the Ages, UC Davis
February, 2009. Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
February 5, 2009. University of Hawaii, Manoa
February 5, 2009. The Hawaii State Legislature
February 5, 2009. Office of Hawaiian Affairs
February 6, 2009. Hawaii Crop Improvement Association
February 7, 2009. University of Hawaii, Hilo
February, 2009. Alternatives in Agriculture seminar, UC Davis
January, 2009. “Sustaining agriculture through global collaborations in the plant sciences”, Workshop on Future Horizons of Plant Sciences at Howard Hughes Medical Institute
January 24, 2009. State Agricultural and Rural Leaders Legislative Chairs Summit, San Diego
December, 2008. Presentation to the Undersecretary of Agriculture, Gale Buchanan, UC Riverside
December, 2008. Presentation to the Undersecretary of Energy, Ray Orbach, Joint Bioenergy Institute
November, 2008. International Rice Functional Genomics, Jeju, Korea
November, 2008. The Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, India
November, 2008. Chinsurah Rice Experiment Station, West Bengal, India
November, 2008. Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh
November, 2008. The Indian Institute of Agricultural Sciences
November, 2008. The University of Delhi
November 25, 2008. Corvallis State University, Food for Thought Lecture series
November 21, 2008. The Campus Community Book Project, Global Food Situation: UC Davis Faculty Analysis and Response
November 17, 2008. UC Davis Centennial Symposia, Foods for Health in the 21st Century: A roadmap for the Future
October 20, 2008. National Institute of Technology Standards, Accelerating Innovation in 21st Century Biosciences, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 USA
October 9-10. 2008. UC Davis Research Retreat on Host Microbe Interactions, Tahoe City
September 26, 2008. Arcadia Biosciences, Davis CA
September 26, 2008. 7:30 p, Appetizers start at 7 PM , Placer Nature Center, 4th Friday lecture series Auburn, CA. Each Main Course includes a seasonal appetizer of delectable local music which ranges from folk and jazz, chamber to blues. These specialities are homegrown including the Auburn Concert Band, Aisle 6, Confluence, and the Raspberry Jam String Band. Each Main Course ends with a riveting Question & Answer Period.
September 13, 2008. 2 pm, San Mateo Public Library
September 11, 2008. Home Garden Seed Association, UC Davis
September 11, 2008. 1:30, National Seed Growers Association, UC Davis Seed Biotechnology Center
September 9, 2008. 7 am LIVE, KVON 1440AM – Wine Country News & Talk - Napa, CA
September 4, 2008. Virginia Bioinformatics Institute Faculty Retreat
August 14, 2008. Monsanto, Davis, CA
August 6, 2008. Washington, DC, Ronald speaks at the National Research Council (NRC) Workshop on Twenty-first Century Systems NRC convened a committee to examine the scientific foundations of production systems and management practices that contribute to a farm’s sustainability, and explore the social, economic and political factors that influence the adoption of such systems and practices by farmers in the United States and abroad
August 5, 2008. The Inoculated Mind- Mindcast weekly science radio
June 27, 2008. 11 am PDT, How She Really Does It, KDRT 101.5 FM in Davis, CA.
June 23, 2008. Food Fight, Oxford University Press
June 21, 2008. 7:30 pm PDT, The Avid Reader, Davis
June 18, 2008. Center for Cancer Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA “The rice innate immunity network”
June 17, 2008. Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital. “Tomorrow’s Table”
June 9, 2008. Grass Genetics, presentation to the Bioenergy Research Centers, Asilomar
June 5, 2008. Solving the Food Crisis With an Unlikely Alliance, U.S. News and World Report
June 3, 2008. 12:30 p, International Food Information Council
May 27, 2008. 5:30-6p, Local Dirt, KDVS, 90.3 FM
May 22, 2008. UC Davis Robert Mondavi Institute, Center for Fruit and Vegetable Quality, 242 Asmundson, UC Davis
May 17, 2008. 3 p, Science Fantastic radio talk show, please call 800-449-8255 to ask questions!
May 12, 2008. 2-4p, University of Arizona, Department of Plant Sciences
May 5, 2008. “Opportunities and Challenges in University Research” The University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
May 1, 2008. 6 am EST, Hear Pam and Raoul on WNYC and Public Radio International’s new program “ The Takeaway“
April 24, 2008. 7:30 pm, Mrs. Dalloway’s bookstore,2904 College Ave., Berkeley, CA. (510) 704-8222
April 15, 2008. 2 pm, Capital Public Radio’s “ Insight” Hosted by Douglass Everett, on KXJZ.
April, 2008. JBEI Industrial Advisory Board
March, 2008. Kyoto Prefectural University
March, 2008. University of Kyoto
March, 2008. Kyoto University
March, 2008. Nara Institute of Science and Technology
February, 2008. Purdue University
February, 2008. Virginia Bioinformatics Institute

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