Hi Craig,
Harkamal has graciously agreed to fill in for our final plenary speaker on Thursday. I’ve updated the Cvent spreadsheet. Could you please update that session in the app/website?
Thanks!
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From: Harkamal Walia hwalia2@unl.edu Date: Monday, April 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM To: Frances Hayes fhayes@nebraska.edu, Tala Awada tawada2@unl.edu Cc: Amber Poythress apoythress@nebraska.edu Subject: Re: Prasanna update + speaker slides Hi Frances,
Please see the title and descriptive text for the session below. Let me know if you have questions or need me to change anything. I will work on the slides and try to send them tomorrow. Thanks.
Harkamal
Title: Using Wild Germplasm to Enhance Drought Adaption in Wheat
Global water and food security face unprecedented challenges, exacerbated by weather extremes and increasing population pressures. This plenary session will explore the critical role that crop improvement through breeding and genetics plays in making crops more adaptive to water limiting environments. The session will highlight the use of genetic resources from wild relatives of wheat for discovering novel sources of drought adaption using cutting edge phenomics, genomics and crop physiology for integration into high-yielding varieties. Discussions will focus on identifying opportunities for collaboration, expanding the scope of integrating wild genetic resources into other crops and role of seed banks in making this a solution for a more resilient food system.
From: Frances Hayes fhayes@nebraska.edu Date: Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 8:26 AM To: Tala Awada tawada2@unl.edu Cc: Joe Luck jluck2@unl.edu, Amber Poythress apoythress@nebraska.edu, Peter McCornick pmccornick@nebraska.edu, Harkamal Walia hwalia2@unl.edu Subject: Re: Prasanna update + speaker slides That’s great - thanks so much Tala!
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On Apr 26, 2025, at 8:19 AM, Tala Awada tawada2@unl.edu wrote: Hi Frances, Rabi is collecting the slides from all his team to put them together in one file. So that includes the majority in his group on circular economy. I will email the group that Joe and I are leading and gather the slides. Tala
From: Frances Hayes fhayes@nebraska.edu Date: Friday, April 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM To: Tala Awada tawada2@unl.edu Cc: Joe Luck jluck2@unl.edu, Amber Poythress apoythress@nebraska.edu, Peter McCornick pmccornick@nebraska.edu, Harkamal Walia hwalia2@unl.edu Subject: Prasanna update + speaker slides Hi Tala,
Happy Friday!
Have you heard from Prasanna yet whether the lunch speaking option will work? If so, I’m happy to update our schedule. Additionally, we may want to name Harkamal’s Thursday morning plenary something different than Prasanna’s to differentiate the two. We have already printed programs but can make the change in our digital materials and our conference app.
Additionally, I have the following speakers from whom we are still awaiting slides:
* William Aderholdt – CS2 * Tala Awada – CS2 (You may not have slides since you’re moderating.) * Joe Luck – CS2 * Roric Paulman – CS2 * Santosh Pitla – CS2 * Ozan Ciftci – CS4 * Samira Daroub – CS4 * Konstantinos Giannakas – CS4 * Marty Matlock – CS4 * Rabi Mohtar – CS4 * Prasanna – Lunch talk (New addition!) * Harkamal Walia – Plenary 5 (Extra time is fine on this since it’s so last minute!)
The speakers should have received several reminders about their presentations being due last Monday, April 21 and instructions to send them along to their session leader. Have you heard anything from them or are some not using slides? I just want to avoid any last-minute presentation additions as our A/V team tests these in advance.
As a reminder, here are the instructions to upload slides:
Speaker presentations
* Due ASAP * Naming system: SessionCode_SpeakerLastName.pptx (Ex: CS1_Hayes.pptx) (Your session code is CS6) * Powerpoint<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://uofnelincoln.sharepoint.com/:p:/s/UNL-IA... > template<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://uofnelincoln.sharepoint.com/:p:/s/UNL-IA... > (optional) * Session leaders upload to Sharepoint folder<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://uofnelincoln.sharepoint.com/:f:/s/UNL-IA... > . * Email after you have uploaded the presentations and I will sort into the appropriate folders for our AV team.
Thanks so much!
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