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Centennial Meeting Plenary Sessions

"Agriculture, Food Security, and Public Health: Global Issues - Global Solutions"
July 27-28, 2008

Charles J. Arntzen - Biopharming and Plant-Made Pharmaceuticals

Roger Beachy - Plant Biotechnology and Agriculture: Is there a Role for the Public Sector?

Chris Field - Agriculture in a Changing Environment

Rob Horsch - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Supporting Plant and Agricultural Sciences

Ray Martyn - Agriculture, Food Security and Public Health: Global Issues - Global Solutions

Gilbert Omenn - The Interface of Science and Policy: The Crucial Roles of Food and Health in Economic Development

Peter H. Raven - Biodiversity and Agriculture

Shiney Varghese - Global Water Crisis: Balancing Water for Agriculture and Public Health

Florence M. Wambugu - The Role of Africa Biofortified Sorghum (ABS) in Tackling Micronutrient Deficiency

Plenary Discussion - Arntzen, Beachy, Omenn

Plenary Discussion - Field, Horsch, Raven, Varghese, Wambugu


2008 APS Centennial Sessions
"100 Years of The American Phytopathological Society"
July 27, 2008

Paul Peterson- The American Phytopathological Society: The Society That Almost Wasn't

James MacDonald- The Growth of APS as a Publisher of Plant Pathology Literature

Jacque Fletcher- The American Phytopathological Society: Public service and outreach

Christopher Mundt- APS Leadership and Participation in International Agriculture

R. James Cook- Contributions of plant pathology in the life sciences in the past 100 years.


2008 APS Centennial Sessions
"Optimizing Opportunities for Everyone in Plant Pathology"
July 29, 2008

Anne Vidaver - Status of Women, Minorities and Other Groups in APS: View of a Past-President

Jean B. Ristaino - Major Contributions of Early Women Plant Pathologists to Our Science: Strategies, struggles and success

Trish Lawrence - Enabling Everyone to Reach Their Full Potential: Lessons learnt from promoting gender diversity.

Lafayette Frederick - A Minority Plant Pathologist: Reflections and suggestions.(mp3 audio only

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