Session: Reaching Out Across the Bag-tag: Overcoming Diversity of Industry, University, and Government Interests to Embrace Public-sector Research on Commercialized Transgenic Crops (2010 ESA Annual Meeting (December 12-15, 2010))

Reaching Out Across the Bag-tag: Overcoming Diversity of Industry, University, and Government Interests to Embrace Public-sector Research on Commercialized Transgenic Crops

Tuesday, December 14, 2010: 8:00 AM-12:10 PM

Town & Country (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)

Organizers:

Thomas W. Sappington
Bruce E. Hibbard

8:00 AM

We gotta get out of this place…: The nature of the swamp we're in and cooperative efforts to find the high road up and out

Thomas W. Sappington, USDA-ARS

8:15 AM

The ASTA initiative: Where it came from, what it is, and why the seed industry supports it

Andy LaVigne, President & CEO, American Seed Trade Association

8:35 AM

Implementing the ASTA principles from the industry perspective

Eric Sachs, Monsanto Company

8:55 AM

Why we need to get this behind us: A Land Grant administrator’s perspective

Steve Pueppke, Michigan State University; Administrative Advisor for NCCC-46 and NC-205

9:15 AM

The Canadian Corn Pest Coalition and prospects for implementing the new paradigm in Canada

Art Schaafsma, Guelph University

9:35 AM

Break

9:50 AM

Regulatory perspective: The crucial role of research in making regulatory decisions

Jeannette Martinez, US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pesticide Programs; John A. Glaser, US Environmental Protection Agency

10:10 AM

The public-sector scientist interface with EPA, and the importance of independent research for decision support

Ken Ostlie, University of Minnesota

10:30 AM

First year under the new paradigm: University-industry relations, putting blanket agreements in place, and communicating with university scientists

Lisa Lorenzen, Iowa State University

10:45 AM

First year under the new paradigm: University scientist perspective

Christian Krupke, Purdue University

11:00 AM

First year under the new paradigm: Industry perspective

Bill Hendrix, Dow AgroSciences; Nicholas Storer, Dow AgroSciences

11:15 AM

First year under the new paradigm: ARS perspective

Bruce Hibbard, USDA - ARS

11:30 AM

Case study: Pioneer's implementation of the new paradigm with the public sector

Laura Higgins, DuPont Pioneer; Susan E. Moeser, Pioneer Hi-Bred International; J. Linsey Flexner, Pioneer Hi-Bred International; Sharyl Sauer, Pioneer Hi-Bred International; Marlin E. Rice, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.

11:45 AM

Now what? What this means for you

Thomas W. Sappington, USDA-ARS

11:50 AM

Questions for Speakers, and Open Discussion

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