Presentations and Posters

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Evolution and Population Genetics

P###	Presenter	Title
P1	Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra	An ancient origin of the naked grains of maize
P2	Adrienne Moran Lauter	Analysis of Ga2 genome structure and activity reveals widespread distribution of functional alleles in modern maize germplasm
P3	Gretta Buttelmann	Comparative genomic analysis of maize and its wild relatives to identify loci underlying cold tolerance and nitrogen recycling
P4	Michelle Stitzer	Comparative grass genomics reveals explosive genome evolution in maize and its wild relatives
P5	Akwasi Yeboah	Determination of genetic and epigenetic regulations of meiotic recombination during domestication in maize
P6	Mingyu Wang	Discovering mechanisms of maize abnormal chromosome 10 (Ab10) meiotic drive through comparative genomics
P7	Samantha Snodgrass	Does maize diversity mirror human diversity across the Americas?
P8	Arnaud Ronceret	Evolution of the protein complex involved in early recombination in plants
P9	Amy Pollpeter	Evolutionary determinants of gene expression in maize
P10	Charles Hale	Extensive modulation of a conserved cis-regulatory code across 625 grass species
P11	Lina Lopez-Corona	Genetic and phenotypic characterization of wild teosinte alleles introgressed into elite maize line CML311
P12	Heather Chamberlain	Genetic legacies of the first ancient South American state in archaeological maize
P13	Christopher Benson	Resolving maize domestication and subpopulation divergence using long terminal repeat retrotransposons
P14	Sai subhash Mahamkali VS	Revealing the genetic architecture for different nitrogen responses in sorghum
P15	Gwonjin Lee	Sex-specific patterns of meiotic recombination are determined by maize lines from different climate zones.
P16	Manisha Munasinghe	Structural variation has a limited role in influencing genome-wide differential gene expression patterns in maize
P17	Yuchu Ma	The effect of modern breeding on rhizosphere microbiome under different nitrogen conditions in maize
P18	Sheng-Kai Hsu	The genetic basis of environmental adaptation in grasses
P19	Jonathan Acosta	The influence of heavy metal stress 1 on the evolutionary transition of teosinte to maize
P20	Aimee Schulz	The molecular evolution of perenniality across the grasses

Biochemical and Molecular Genetics

P###	Presenter	Title
P21	Emily Wheeler	A modified replication timing profiling method improves early replication detection and facilitates comparison of multiple genotypes
P22	Mariana Chavez-Carranza	Annotating of active LTR retrotransposons in course-based genomics research
P23	Sylvia Morais de Sousa Tinoco	Bacterial strains isolated from Vellozia spp. promote maize growth
P24	Madison Lane	Building a synthetic cuticle: Characterizing the impact of maize transcription factors on cuticle biosynthetic pathways
P25	Noah Walberg	Characterization of transporter genes and their impact on cuticular wax composition on maize silks
P26	Zhijie Shui	Co-expression analysis identifies a transcription factor positively regulates the kauralexin biosynthesis gene ZmKSL2
P27	Shivreet Kaur	Comparative analysis of host specificity and pathogen interaction of Cochliobolus heterostrophus on maize vs. non-host species
P28	Bharath Kunduru	Deciphering genetic architecture of stalk lodging resistance using high-density phenotype map in maize
P29	Sylvie Coursol	Deciphering the role of the cell wall in mycorrhizal symbiosis under low-input conditions in maize
P30	Ankush Sangra	Decoding a complex distal non-coding QTL at TEOSINTE BRANCHED 1
P31	Gerardo Gonzalez	Developing a high-throughput genotyping assay for rapid identification of multiple edited flowering genes in tropical maize
P32	Jane Mascarenhas	Developing a system to elucidate genetic factors underlying hypersensitivity responses in maize
P33	Rina Carrillo	Developing an efficient workflow for detecting CRISPR-edited alleles in three target genes that regulate photoperiod response in tropical maize
P34	Enameguono Olomukoro	Development of Sorghum BTx642 EMS population
P35	Zhengzhi Zhang	Development of efficient haploid inducers of fast flowering mini maize
P36	Hui Liu	Endogenous gene activation of a MYB transcription factor by CRISPRa drives wax biosynthesis regulation in maize
P37	Cesar Xavier	Engineering maize mosaic virus for efficient virus induced gene silencing and virus induced DNA-free genome editing in maize: a potential ally for maize improvement
P38	Justin Larkin	Expression of the solanaceous immune receptor FLS3 in maize protoplasts
P39	Maruti Nandan Rai	Expression variation in Glossy15 is associated with harvest index in maize
P40	Zachary Gorman	Flood-induced insect resistance in maize involves flavonoid-dependent salicylic acid induction
P41	Joseph DeTemple	Gene expression and circadian rhythm differences between temperate and tropical maize inbreds in response to photoperiod
P42	Olga Zimina	Generating crossovers at targeted sites in the maize genome
P43	Elliot Braun	Genetic architecture of specialized metabolites in sorghum and maize
P44	Hui Jiang	Harnessing male sterility to accelerate genetic research in the C4 model Setaria viridis
P45	Joerg Degenhardt	How maize eliminates an apparent toxic by-product - Identification and functional characterization of the C4-ketone products of homoterpene biosynthesis in Zea mays
P46	Mateusz Zelkowski	How to control meiotic recombination: The role of chromatin state and DSB resection in determining crossing-over locations in maize
P47	Sylvia Morais de Sousa Tinoco	Impact of phosphate-solubilizing bacteria inoculation on maize yield, root system architecture and microbiome
P48	Zackariah Ellington	Implementation of a lab-scale highly efficient CRISPR cas-9 gene editing and genotyping system in maize.
P49	Fausto Rodríguez-Zapata	Introgression of a Mexican highland chromosomal inversion into temperate maize accelerates flowering, promotes growth, and modulates a cell proliferation gene network.
P50	Ana Lúcia Pinheiro	LYSDH overexpression increases drought tolerance in maize
P51	Jonathan Gent	Methylation-responsive promoters for engineering gene expression
P52	Caroline Henry	Non-invasive identification and analysis of maize root exudates
P53	Megan DeTemple	Novel use of cell wall degrading enzymes as a tool to elucidate cell wall-mediated signaling during pathogenesis
P54	Lucas Baiochi Riboldi	Optimizing CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing for precise gene deletion in Zea mays
P55	Sylvia Morais de Sousa Tinoco	Overexpression of PSTOL1-like genes increases maize root surface area and biomass under low and high phosphorus conditions
P56	J.Aaron Avalos-Calleros	Phenotypic characterization of overexpression of glossy3 involved in biosynthesis of cuticular wax in maize
P57	Jacob Olson	Red chlorophyll catabolite reductase mutants in maize and sorghum
P58	Md Nazmul Hossain	Restoration of haploid male fertility in maize: A novel approach using Zmjr mutants
P59	Max Braud	Robust leaf-based transformation in Sorghum bicolor and editing of classical maize genes
P60	Brianna Griffin	Roles of REL2 mediated transcriptional co-repression in maize immunity
P61	Nadia Mourad	Sorbitol dehydrogenase enhances kernel size by integrating carbohydrate and redox metabolism in the hypoxic endosperm
P62	Taylor Scroggs	Systematic exploration of transcription factor function in maize
P63	Yuguo Xiao	Targeted seed EMS mutagenesis reveals a bHLH transcription factor underlying male sterility in sorghum
P64	Matthew Helm	The maize tar spot pathogen Phyllachora maydis encodes an effector protein that targets the chloroplasts and suppresses plant immunity
P65	Mae Mercado	The tale of two rubisco activase: studying the function of rca1 and rca3 in maize.
P66	Raksha Singh	Transcriptomic analysis of tar spot and fisheye lesions exhibit distinct yet overlapping transcriptomic signatures, suggesting a complex interplay of shared and specific pathways
P67	Charles Hunter	Transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses of oxylipin-deficient maize mutants
P68	Alessandra Koltun	Tropical maize: paving the way to explore untapped genetic diversity
P69	Holly Anderson	Understanding anthocyanin accumulation in developing pericarp tissue through comparative transcriptomics of near-isogenic and inbred purple maize cultivars
P70	Huda Ansaf	Understanding the role of TOR signaling and translational machinery in regulating protein-bound amino acid homeostasis in maize kernels
P71	Jeffery Gustin	What’s new at the Maize Genetic Cooperation Stock Center
P72	Wen-Yu Liu	ZmCER9-mediated regulation of autoactive NLR proteins and effector-triggered immunity via ERAD pathway
P73	Tyler Ferris	k1C resiliance: 400kb deletion of alpha kafirin family genes yields negligible nonkafirin proteome compensation in sorghum

Cell and Developmental Biology

P###	Presenter	Title
P74	Zongliang Chen	A ZmWUSCHEL1-LITTLE ZIPPER-ROLLED LEAF1/REVOLUTA regulatory module controls stem cell organization in maize inflorescences
P75	Xiaosa Xu	A high-resolution, meristem stage-specific single-cell gene expression atlas resolving developmental dynamics in maize inflorescence architecture
P76	Xiaosa Xu	A nuclear role of RAMOSA3 in inflorescence branching independent of its enzymatic function
P77	Yaping Zhou	A spatiotemporal transcriptional map of maize lateral root formation
P78	Harrison Bell	Assessing factors underlying variation in maize pollen grain size: Genetics, development and environment.
P79	Richie Eve Ragas	Asymmetric signaling and transcription factor interactions generate robust nonrandom patterning in maize leaf margins
P80	Thu Tran	Catalytic and non-catalytic TREHALOSE-6-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASES (TPSs) interact with RAMOSA3 to control maize development
P81	Kenneth Birnbaum	Cell-based high throughput screening in maize
P82	Denise Caldwell	Cell-specific insights into fungicide mode of action and host resistance to improve tar spot management in maize
P83	David Zimmerman	Characterizing vasculature reconnection in maize “Twin-Grafts”
P84	Andrea Sama	Chemical imaging reveals metabolic responses to salt-stress in maize roots
P85	Xiaosa Xu	Comprehensive single-cell profiling of plant shoot stem cells uncovers key insights for functional studies and trait gene discovery
P86	Taran Kermani	Cross-species transcriptome comparison reveals candidate transcription factors for brace root development
P87	Hank Bass	Cytological, genomic, and comparative analysis of DNA replication in maize and sorghum
P88	Doris Cao	Designing form and function into research devices
P89	Fernanda Ghenov	Determining flowering phenotypes and expression signatures of temperate and tropical maize grown in short and long day field environments
P90	Emilia Pierce	Differential expression of nitrogen transporters contributes to uptake differences between aerial and soil brace roots
P91	Liuyang Chu	Effects of phenylboronic acid on maize root development: Boron-related but rhamnogalacturonan II-independent?
P92	Abigail Tripka	Exploring small molecule regulation of root development in Zea Mays
P93	Julian Somers	Exploring the timing of the sporophyte-to-gametophyte transition (SGT)
P94	Yan Zhou	Genes that regulate azimuthal canopy re-orientation exhibit sensitivity to plant density
P95	Johannes Scharwies	Genetic control of lateral root branching in response to moisture
P96	Lander Geadelmann	Genetic networks of maize phyllotaxy mutants
P97	Nicholas Francis	Harnessing pluripotency: Identifying key regulators of plant cell regeneration
P98	Kevin Begcy	Heat stress at tricellular stage inhibits maize pollen dehiscence
P99	Maria Helena Faustinoni Bruno	Influence of the temperature, light and nutritional status in infection by Agrobacterium tumefaciens in maize leaf transformation
P100	Makayla Drew	Investigating TANGLED1-mediated division site maintenance across land plant lineages
P101	Rob Meister	Leveraging LRR receptor gene editing for enhanced ear morphology in maize
P102	Ruqiang Zhang	Localized changes in developmental phase-transition on a recurrent morphogenetic regulatory network enables maize leaf angle variation
P103	Faith Kanana Mbiti	MALE STERILE CONVERTED ANTHER 1 (MSCA1), Hypoxia and TGA Transcription Factors
P104	Maria Camila Medina Montes	Making good connections: How transverse veins span the maize leaf vascular network
P105	Veerle De Schepper	Modifying gene expression of native genes by CRISPR-CAS editing to obtain shorter maize varieties
P106	Allyson Angermeier	New tools for visualizing phasiRNA biogenesis in maize anthers via hybridization chain reaction, immunofluorescence, and multiplex super-resolution microscopy.
P107	Brad Nelms	Pizza theory! Meristem organization restricts the spread of new mutations among the offspring
P108	Lukas Evans	Positional cell divisions, growth, and recruitment contribute to cell-fate acquisition at a developmental boundary in the maize leaf
P109	Vishadinie Jayasinghe	Response of autophagy-deficient maize atg10 mutants to heat stress
P110	Thanduanlung Kamei	SBP mutants have an expanded competence zone for brace root initiation
P111	Liam German	STR2 – a plant half-sized ABCG transporter with a multifaceted role in AM symbiosis
P112	Brian Zebosi	Sex and death: Mapping and characterization of several novel tassel seed mutants with altered sex determination
P113	John Hodge	Spatial analysis of stomatal patterning can quantify component traits tied to developmental genetics of stomatal density in maize
P114	Lily O'Connor	Supporting the next generation: bHLH transcription factor complexes regulating maize anther development
P115	Michael Busche	TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN regulates gene expression across developmental gradients
P116	Nandhakumar Shanmugaraj	TERMINAL EAR1 (TE1) couples maize development with stress responses
P117	Dayane Cristina Lima	The Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center: a public resource for crop transformation and gene editing research
P118	Hailong Yang	The cis-regulatory evolution of GRASSY TILLERS1 (GT1) in the grass family
P119	Prameela Awale	The enhancer of spi1 (eos1) gene functions in maize tassel development by regulating auxin transport
P120	Jiaqi Zhou	Uncovering maize regeneration mechanism through morphogenic regulators mutants
P121	Irene Ikiriko	Uncovering the genes regulating lifespan stalk flexural stiffness
P122	Emma Klaas	lateral rootless2 (lrs2) shapes maize root development by regulating polar auxin transport

Computational and Large-Scale Biology

P###	Presenter	Title
P123	Magdalena Janik	A comparative approach for selecting orthologous candidate genes underlying signal in elemental accumulation genome-wide association studies across multiple species
P124	Jonathan Ojeda-Rivera	A large-scale transcriptomic survey of nitrogen recycling genes in perennial grasses for sustainable maize production
P125	Carson Andorf	A unified VCF data set from nearly 1,500 diverse maize accessions and resources to explore the genomic landscape of maize
P126	Carson Andorf	Using the MaizeGDB genome browser to evaluate gene model annotation quality and gain functional insights
P127	Ethalinda Cannon	Updating the maize nomenclature recommendations
P128	Jack Gardiner	Maizemine: Tools for mining gene expression in the maize NAM lines
P129	Olivia Haley	Comparing the performance of protein folding models AlphaFold, ESMFold, and Boltz for classical genes in maize
P130	Olivia Haley	Fusarium protein toolkit: An AI-based resource to facilitate exploring host-pathogen interactions in maize
P131	Laura Tibbs-Cortes	Plasticity and fitness trade-offs in switchgrass revealed by open science and citizen science data
P132	John Fowler	Alleles that reduce pollen fitness can condition heterogeneous spatial patterns of inheritance across maize ears
P133	Huan Chen	Archaeological Bolivian maize genomes suggest Inca cultural expansion augmented maize diversity in South America
P134	Wei-Yun Lai	Building a practical haplotype graph from PacBio assemblies for genotype imputation and allele mining in maize
P135	Yue Liu	Candidate genes underlying a major QTL qshgd1 causing spontaneous haploid genome doubling in maize A427
P136	Sontosh Deb	Characterization of allele-specific expression and cis-regulatory divergence in hybrid maize: Implications for gene-environment interactions
P137	Jingjing Zhai	Cross-species modeling of plant genomes at single nucleotide resolution using a pre-trained DNA language model
P138	Yan Zhou	Dancing canopy: Genes regulate azimuthal canopy orientations and response to high planting density in maize
P139	Szu-Ping Chen	Decoding tissue-specific gene expression using DNA language model
P140	Jaspreet Sandhu	Dissecting the physiological and molecular responses to nitrogen stress in sorghum
P141	Alejandra Quinones	Dynamic patterns of maize phenotypic responses to drought, heat, and their combined stress
P142	Micah Kelleher	Expanding maize breeding resources with teosinte alleles through a practical haplotype graph map of the Zea Synthetic population
P143	Riley Harper	Exploring the influence of nitrogen on rhizosphere and apoplastic microbiomes in maize
P144	Mohamed El-Walid	Genomic assembly and analysis of fast-flowering mini-maize
P145	Zhenyuan Lu	Gramene plants: Empowering agricultural research from genomic diversity through pan-genome analysis
P146	Jacob Washburn	High-throughput phenotyping with high resolution maize ear and kernel imaging
P147	Jensina Davis	How much of phenotypic variation across environments is explained by variation in gene expression?
P148	Rommel Jr. Garrido	Impacts of structural variant deletions and InDels on SNP genotype imputation
P149	Daniel Kick	Incorporation of biological information in deep learning models for phenotypic prediction
P150	Marie-Laure Martin	Integration of phenomic, proteomic, and genomic data into a multi-scale network unravels missing heritability for maize response to water deficit
P151	Sofiya Arora	Leveraging natural genetic variation for functional validation of genes with predicted functions in maize
P152	Rohit Kumar	Localized and systemic nature of metabolic responses in root-mycorrhizae interactions
P153	Katherine Murphy	Low-cost, image-based phenotyping of maize abiotic stress responses
P154	Doreen Ware	Maize data for biology, breeding, and genomics: The PanMaize Gramene database
P155	Worasit Sangjan	MatchPlant: An open-source pipeline for UAV-based single-plant detection and data extraction
P156	Rijan Dhakal	PanvaR: An ergonomic candidate gene discovery workflow in R.
P157	Aditya Raj	Phenobot - A robotic platform for field-based corn plant phenotyping via multi-sensor fusion
P158	Sebastian Mueller	Predictive modeling of pollen fitness phenotypes from genome scale data identifies expression specificity as a critically informative parameter
P159	Meera Rajagopal	Quantifying transposable element expressions: Utilizing computational biology and comprehensive annotations to recognize various features in RNA-seq data
P160	Zong-Yan Liu	ReelGene2: A large language model for single base pair precision gene annotation in diverse plant genomes
P161	Sunil Kenchanmane Raju	Role of chromatin accessibility in adaptive divergence of duplicate paralogs
P162	Nikee Shrestha	Searching for conserved alternate splicing regulation in maize and sorghum
P163	Ryleigh Grove	Sweet Angle O’ Mine: A comparative analysis of leaf angle phenotyping in sorghum
P164	Zhongjie Ji	Temporal UAV surveys for robust and accurate maize flowering time prediction
P165	Zachary Miller	The practical haplotype graph version 2: a streamlined and simple pangenome system
P166	Quinn Johnson	Tracking the genomic location and chromatin context of meiotic double-strand breaks leading to crossovers
P167	Alexandria Tran	Transcriptomic analysis of maize heterosis by nitrogen use efficiency
P168	Colin Finnegan	UTR development in maize
P169	Anuradha Singh	Unlocking sorghum's growth and yield potential: a study on nitrogen regimes and biostimulant applications
P170	Henry Dawson	Unveiling cold tolerance in maize: Linking chloroplast genomics and environmental adaptation for climate-resilient breeding
P171	Cole Hammett	Using UAV imagery to assess foliar disease resistance
P172	John Fowler	Using the Ds-GFP population to assess the contributions of pollen-expressed genes to maize reproduction
P173	Morgan Mathison	Utilizing drone imaging in analysis of genotype by environment in maize
P174	Edward Cedrick Fernandez	Within-leaf spatial responses to heat stress reveal varied genetic mechanisms in Hordeum vulgare
P175	Christopher Topp	X-ray tomography provides nondestructive multiscale 3D imaging to support maize research

Cytogenetics

P###	Presenter	Title
P176	Taylor Isles	Analysis of McClintock's tiny fragment/X component
P177	Paul Chomet	Capturing snapshots in history: Images from a collection of B. McClintock’s microscope slides
P178	Wojtek Pawlowski	Chromosome axis provides scaffold for splicing meiotic gene transcripts
P179	Hua Yang	Copy number variation analysis of the cis region required for the B chromosome non-disjunction in maize
P180	Mateus Mondin	Cytogenetic and genetic insights into non-mendelian segregation, non-disjunction, and phenotypic expression in the maize A-B chromosomal translocation line TB-9Sb
P181	Mateus Mondin	Effects of B chromosomes on flowering time in Zapalote Chico inbred lines and the Cateto x Zapalote Chico hybrid
P182	Malika Sharma	Genome-Wide investigation of recombination in the presence of B chromosomes
P183	Nathan Gilbert	Multiple trans-acting factors are required for B chromosome nondisjunction
P184	Kelly Dawe	Reshaping the maize karyotype using synthetic centromeres
P185	Hua Yang	Single gene example of genomic balance using transcription factor B-peru on the B chromosome
P186	Sora Haagensen	Understanding the role of PRD2 in regulating meiotic recombination in maize
P187	Kempton Bryan	Utilization of engineered neochromosomes to study breakage-fusion-bridge cycle outcomes

Education & Outreach

P###	Presenter	Title
P188	Vivian Bernau	Managing and distributing maize diversity: The NCRPIS maize collection
P189	Jaclyn Nicole Uy	Reinventing tissue culture and transformation in the classroom: TPSS 499 - Track 2
P190	Katy Guthrie	Teaching scientific writing alongside the scientific method in an introductory plant biology lab.
P191	Brandi Sigmon	The MaGNET program: Fostering community and building networks through effective mentorship for early career scientists
P192	Paul Scott	The organic corn breeding boot camp: An outreach activity for students, farmers and scientists

Quantitative Genetics & Breeding

P###	Presenter	Title
P193	Alexander Liu	A Rootless1 knockdown allele affects maize nodal root development, increasing rooting depth, nitrogen uptake efficiency, and grain production in the field
P194	Matthew Runyon	A job for a cob? Enhancing cob sink strength as an approach for programming staygreen in maize
P195	Christopher Topp	A longitudinal study of the impacts of cover crop diversity on maize yield and nitrogen uptake
P196	Tao Zhong	A mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase gene conferring quantitative foliar disease resistance in maize
P197	Edoardo Bertolini	A network-informed genomic prediction approach for plant architecture traits in maize and sorghum
P198	Melissa Draves	Phenotypic evaluation of U.S. maize heirlooms in Columbia, MO
P199	Jordan Cummings	Phenotypic evaluation and genotypic characterization of U.S. maize heirlooms in Clayton, NC
P200	August Thies	Analyzing the impact of breeding, planting density and nitrogen availability on maize root system architecture using X-ray imaging
P201	Brandon Webster	As above leaf below: integrating drone imagery and leaf gas exchange measurements from the Wisconsin Diversity Panel in different Nitrogen treatments
P202	Hannah Pil	BZea: A diverse teosinte introgression population for improving modern maize sustainability
P203	Jonathan Niyorukundo	Breeding for high lysine content and color diversity in popcorn and sweet corn to enhance their macro- and micronutrient profiles
P204	Anthony Assibi Mahama	Breeding for reduced maize grain nitrogen content
P205	Samuel Herr	Breeding maize stover for a circular bioeconomy
P206	Cinta Romay	CERCA - Circular Economy that Reimagines Corn Agriculture
P207	Michael Burns	CHIP-NMC: an application for corn hybrid and inbred prediction of nixtamalization moisture content
P208	Alexander Mullens	Characterizing tissue-specific disease resistance to Xanthomonas vasicola pv. vasculorum in maize
P209	Nate Korth	Characterizing untapped genetic diversity in maize and its relatives to regulate the rhizosphere microbiome and improve crop resilience
P210	Amanpreet Kaur	Cis-acting natural variation in transcript abundance affects the phenotype of the semi-dominant D13-1 mutant
P211	Nathan Bowser	Combining ability and heterotic responses among newly developed elite stay-green sorghum inbred lines
P212	Xianran Li	Complex traits: Genetic diversity, environmental context, and phenotypic plasticity
P213	Kiara Kappelmann	Comprehensive kernel analysis in large DH populations derived from intercrossing germplasm enhancement of maize lines
P214	Greg Ziegler	Construction of a high-density, sequence-indexed Setaria viridis NMU mutant population
P215	Ashley Hostetler	Decoupling brace root development from phase change in sorghum: candidate genes revealed by GWAS
P216	Karlene Negus	Designing AI models for genomic selection
P217	Lara Brindisi	Dissecting the genetic architecture of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in Tripsacum using eQTL mapping
P218	Xiquan Gao	Dissection of genetic basis of maize resistance to Gibberella Ear Rot and its associated seed microbiome
P219	Nina Chumak	Engineering synthetic apomixis in maize
P220	Matthew Wendt	Environmental and genetic factors underlying maize cuticular wax accumulation under drought stress
P221	Joseph Romano	Evaluating early vigor in maize genotypes under pythium root rot stress: A pilot experiment
P222	Beatrice Konadu	Exploring trade-offs between drought and cold tolerance in Tripsacum dactyloides.
P223	Steve Moose	Expression variation in Glossy15 is associated with maize harvest index.
P224	Xuan Liu	Field-scale and high-throughput maize leaf angle characterization using stereo vision and deep learning
P225	Caner Yavuz	Fine mapping of QTLs for candidate genes responsible for embryogenic callus induction in maize
P226	Donielle Brottlund	From field to future: Environmental impacts on parental and progeny corn traits
P227	Luke Gregory	From point clouds to canopy architecture insights: High-throughput trait extraction from UGV-based LIDAR in maize
P228	Dikshya Sapkota	Genetic analyses of novel inflorescence architecture traits in broomcorn
P229	John Searl	Genetic analysis of fertility restoration in cytoplasmic male sterility-C type using WI-SS-MAGIC population and ex-PVP maize lines
P230	Shalma Maman	Genetic architecture underlying mean and plasticity of kernel traits in maize highlights independent control and key loci
P231	Waqar Ali	Genetic dissection and characterization of yield component traits in maize
P232	Pearl Abu	Genetic diversity and inter-trait relationship of tropical extra-early maturing quality proteinmaize inbred lines under low soil nitrogen stress
P233	Jake Hinrichsen	Genome-wide dissection of leaf angle variation across the canopy in maize
P234	Yu-Ru Chen	Genomic prediction insights across haploid and diploid levels in maize
P235	Jianming Yu	Genomic selection: Essence, applications, and prospects
P236	Lizeth Dominguez	Getting priorities straight: Altering source-sink strength in Sorghum bicolor increases sugar production
P237	Huyu Liu	High intensity phenotyping sites: Genetic regulation of phenotypic plasticity/stability.
P238	Vitor Sagae	Hybrid prediction in CHiDO: A friendly no-code genomic prediction tool for breeders
P239	Vencke Gruening	Impact of spontaneous haploid genome doubling on haploid induction in maize haploid inducers
P240	Qin Yang	Inactivation of a lysine-histidine transporter-1 gene confers southern leaf blight resistance in maize
P241	Erin Farmer	Integrating proximal sensing modalities for enhanced prediction of agronomically important crop traits
P242	Tae-Chun Park	Integration of doubled haploid technology with marker-assisted techniques for fixing major genes to develop specialty corn
P243	Shuya Wang	Investigating the role of a group XIIa LRR receptor-like kinase in maize resistance against Xanthomonas vasicola pv. vasculorum
P244	Manoj Subedi	Leveraging UAV-based hyperspectral imaging and machine learning models for prediction of SPAD in maize
P245	Ally Schumacher	Maize genomic prediction: Integrating genomics and transcriptomics for trait analysis
P246	Sarah Lipps	Maize hybrid stability and weather variables associated with ear rot resistance and mycotoxin accumulation
P247	Greg Schoenbaum	Managing plot orientation and canopy architecture to improve overall maize grain yield
P248	Olamide Adesina	Mining genetic resistance to Goss's wilt of maize
P249	Ty Thomas	Multi-environmental transcriptome-wide association study reveals the extent of genotype-by-environment interactions for flowering time in maize.
P250	Vladimri Torres-Rodriguez	Multi-species transcriptome-wide association studies identify additional genes controlling flowering
P251	Prashant Bhandari	Multiple conserved loci underlie plant water use efficiency in Sorghum and Setaria
P252	Lukas Würstl	Natural alleles of the gene lhcb6 shape photosynthesis and key agronomic traits in maize (Zea mays L.) landraces
P253	Aaron Kusmec	Natural and orthogonal interaction models for gene-environment and gene-gene interactions
P254	Catherine Li	Non-destructive visualization of alpha-zein expression and grain protein in maize using the FLOURY2-RFP reporter transgene
P255	James Holland	Oaxacan green dent maize is not from Oaxaca
P256	Shreejana KC	Optimizing maize growth in growth chambers
P257	Zhaocheng Xiang	Parametrization and quantification of maize leaf morphology for phenotyping and quantitative genetics
P258	Gen Xu	Patterns of selection for adaptation to spatial and temporal fluctuating nitrogen availability in maize
P259	Kirsten Hein	Phenome-to-genome insights for evaluating root system architecture in field studies of maize
P260	Jeonghwa Kim	Phenotypic and photosynthetic responses of maize germplasm to waterlogging stress
P261	Dongdong Li	Phenotypic plasticity of flowering time is associated with cis-regulatory elements variations
P262	Denise E. Costich	Phenotypic selection of maize adapted to temperature extremes as a strategy to maintain productivity under global climate change, part 2
P263	Harshita Mangal	Population-level study on nitrogen stress responses in sorghum
P264	Collin Luebbert	Pre-breeding maize for enhanced performance in no-till cover cropping systems using a teosinte synthetic population
P265	Vinay Chaudhari	Predicting end-of-season Sorghum biomass from seedling-stage traits
P266	Libia F. Gomez-Trejo	Rust nonhost resistance responses in sorghum and maize
P267	Forrest Li	Sequencing a seed bank: Assessing the utility of environmental data from CIMMYT traditional varieties for climate-adaptive maize breeding
P268	Jacob Kelly	Speed breeding fast-flowering mini-maize
P269	Juliana Yassitepe	Temporal field-based phenomics for evaluating transgenic maize under drought stress
P270	Qiuyue Chen	Ten years of Genomes to Fields: a collaborative corn breeding effort
P271	Jiawen Lu	Tensor decomposition reveals trans-regulated gene modules in maize drought response
P272	Chad Soenksen	Testing the role of copy number variation in adaptation to drought using a pangenome approach
P273	Yipu Li	The ZmCCT10 transcription factor promotes DNA-mediated RNA polymerase beta expression, enhancing resistance to salt stress and improving yield in maize
P274	Emma Leary	The cold case: Characterizing photosynthetic performance at suboptimal temperatures using diverse germplasm
P275	Heather Wodehouse	Understanding the genetic impact of divergent selection on vegetative phase change in maize
P276	YUN LUO	Unlocking the secrets of ear length and frost tolerance in maize and Tripsacum
P277	Qi Mu	Unraveling a MYB transcription factor controlling plant height and involved in phenotypic plasticity in sorghum and maize
P278	Sarah Fitzsimmons (Oliver)	Unraveling the genetic architecture of free asparagine in maize kernels
P279	Peyton Sorensen	Untangling specificity: Investigating tissue-specific responses to bacterial pathogens in maize
P280	Robert Twohey III	Using a high-throughput screening method to compare chamber and field grown VPD transpirational breakpoints in Zea mays
P281	Zachary Traylor	Validating a lab-scale ethanol production method for exploring metabolites in craft distilling
P282	Veronica Justen	Variation in temporal growth patterns of inbred lines and hybrid offspring
P283	Kyle Swentowsky	Zea diploperennis perennial regrowth QTL regrowth1 and regrowth3 control life history traits
P284	Michelle Cho	ZmIRA1: A novel genetic factor of root system architecture in maize identified by GWAS in a long-term selection population for kernel nitrogen content

Transposons & Epigenetics

P###	Presenter	Title
P285	Jason Lynn	AGO2 and AGO3 regulate RNAi fidelity by suppressing RNA-directed DNA methylation
P286	Patrick Gardner	Active LTR transposable element annotation via a computational pipeline - LTRAnnotator
P287	Carmen Rodriguez	Adapting Fiber-seq for mapping chromatin accessibility in maize under cold stress
P288	Jeff Chen	An epigenetic basis for inbreeding depression in maize
P289	Rajdeep Khangura	An exapted transposase modifies the Mu-suppressible allele of a lesion-forming UROPORPHYRINOGEN III SYNTHASE mutant
P290	Xuelian Du	BonnMu – A resource for functional genomics in maize (Zea mays L.)
P291	Caleb Gooden	Cis-regulatory elements in maize early development derived from long terminal-repeat retrotransposons.
P292	Jonathan Cahn	Enhancers and enhancer RNAs recapitulate the domestication focus on maize ears
P293	Xuelian Du	Functional characterization of the dizzy1 (diz1) dwarf maize mutant from the BonnMu resource
P294	Damon Lisch	Genetic perturbation of the Mu-accessible chromatin landscape
P295	Claire Menard	Identifying novel transposable element insertions from short-read data using SWIF-TE
P296	Xingli Li	Investigation of TEs DNA methylation patterns through long-read sequencing
P297	Sicong Wang	Investigation of the maintenance mechanism on the silenced Ac transposon in id4
P298	Beibei Liu	Landscape: The evolution of transposable elements (TEs) in Maize
P299	Dafang Wang	Mechanisms of small RNA-induced epigenetic silencing of Ac transposons in maize
P300	Justin Scherer	Somatic insertional preference of the mutator transposon across distinct maize tissues
P301	Yirui Sun	TE-like DNA methylation in regulation of highly expressed nutrient transfer and storage genes in endosperm
P302	Mark Minow	Using parent-offspring pairs to study the inheritance patterns of Zea mays chromatin accessibility.
P303	Mohammad Mahmood Hasan	mop1 reshapes recombination landscapes by altering DNA methylation and chromatin states at MITEs