Local Organizing Committees

Perry Gustafson, Program Chair, USDA-ARS, University of Missouri, Columbia

Gary Stacey, University of Missouri-Columbia

Doug Randall, University of Missouri-Columbia

Ralph Quatrano, Washington University

Christopher (Chris) Horner, Monsanto

David Fischhoff, Monsanto

Robb Fraley, Monsanto

Elizabeth Kellogg, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Roger Beachy, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

Peter Raven, Missouri Botanical Gardens

Peter Hoch, Missouri Botanical Gardens

Sandi Strother, Lead Coordinator, MU Conference Office

Joy Millard, Director, MU Conference Office

North American Scientific Committee

Perry Gustafson, Program Chair, USDA-ARS, University of Missouri, Columbia

Rick Amasino, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Jeff Bennetzen, University of Georgia, Athens

Jim Birchler, University of Missouri, Columbia

Vicki Chandler, University of Arizona, Tucson

Karen Cone, University of Missouri, Columbia

Jorge Dubcovsky, University of California, Davis

Joe Ecker, Salk Institute, San Diego

Sharon Long, Stanford University, Stanford

Rob Martienssen, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Eliot Meyerowitz, CalTech, Pasadena

Natasha Raikhel, University of California, Riverside

Daryl Somers, Agric. Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

International Organizing Committee

CHAIR: Perry Gustafson, Program Chair, USDA-ARS, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA

Lothar Willmitzer, Germany

David Baulcombe, Great Britain

Geoff Fincher, Australia

Catherine Feuillet, France

Qifa Zhang, China

Ko Shimamoto, Japan

Richard Flavell, USA

Gynheung An, Korea

Antonio Costa de Oliveira, Brazil

Marc Zabeau, Belgium

Luis Herrera Estrella, Mexico

Jennifer Thomson, South Africa

Dani Zamir, Israel