‘Plant Diversity’ topic of this year’s Plant Sciences Symposium

This year, we are excited for the 2024 UC Davis Plant Sciences Symposium to represent work across the plant sciences with the theme, “Plant diversity from genes to ecosystems.”

The event is this Friday, April 11, in the Walter A. Buehler Alumni Center. Registration and coffee start at 8 a.m., with the event opening at 8:45 a.m. Jason Rauscher will speak; he’s the R&D academic relations lead for our event’s core partner Corteva Agriscience. The day includes speakers, poster sessions and networking.

Learn more about our speakers here. 

As we prepared to bring the plant sciences community together for the annual symposium, we were struck by the diversity of research occurring across the field and wanted to find a way to showcase work from around the community. The symposium provides an amazing opportunity for attendees to interact with areas of science that they may not be familiar with, while still providing research presentations within their own fields.

This year, the symposium is aiming to encourage students, faculty, staff and industry professionals to synthesize across disciplines and network to form new and exciting collaborations. Our goal is for the 2024 UC Davis Plant Sciences Symposium to foster new connections to support interdisciplinary work in the plant sciences.

Corteva also will offer an informational session, called “Private Sector Careers in Agriculture,” from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11, in PES 3001. It’s for anyone to learn more about career paths in the agricultural industry. Rauscher will be there, too.