Speakers Include: Robert Fraley - Executive Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer, Monsanto M.S. Swaminathan - Chair, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation Marc Van Montagu - Emeritus Professor, Ghent University
Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Monsanto
Dr. Robert T. Fraley, Ph.D. has been Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Monsanto Co. since August 2000. Dr. Fraley primary responsibility is to oversee Monsanto's integrated crop and seed agribusiness technology and research with facilities in most every world... Read More →
Chairman, Institute of Plant Biotechnology for Developing Countries, Ghent University
Em. Prof. Marc Van Montagu is a pioneer in plant molecular biology. He is well known (with J. Schell) as the discoverer of the Ti-plasmid and the inventor of Agrobacterium tumefaciens transformation technology, now used worldwide to produce genetically engineered plants. Van Montagu used... Read More →
Emeritus Chair, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
M.S. Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, India, on August 7, 1925. Inspired by the example of Mahatma Gandhi, the young man was committed to serving his country and considered becoming a police officer. Winning a fellowship in 1949, he instead studied agriculture in the... Read More →
Thursday October 18, 2012 9:40am - 10:25am CDT
Iowa Ballroom (2nd Floor)Downtown Des Moines Marriott
