CFANS Research Symposium

Thursday, March 14, 1–5 p.m.

North Star Ballroom, St. Paul Student Center

CFANS Research Symposium

The 2nd College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS) Research Symposium will be held on Thursday, March 14, 2024 in the St. Paul Student Center. The 2024 edition of the CFANS Research Symposium celebrates 10 years of work of the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center (MAISRC). The Symposium features posters and oral presentations by CFANS undergraduate students, graduate students, postdocs, researchers, and faculty. 

Program

  • 1–2 p.m. | Oral sessions

    • Oral Session 1: Minnesota Commons (Floor 1)

      • 1:00 p.m. | Yang Zhe Kang, “Oat Protein Profiling of Genetically Diverse Lines Grown in Two Geographically Distinct Locations”
      • 1:12 p.m. | Madison Elizabeth Bacon, “Behavior and stress of primiparous horned and dehorned dairy cattle in the milking parlor”
      • 1:24 p.m. | Jacob Kundert, “Comparing Methods for Soil Carbon Accounting in a Perennial Crop Rotation”
      • 1:36 p.m. | Andrew Benjamin Carter, “Sensory Considerations of Novel ‘Microflora-Based’ Dairy Foods”
      • 1:48 p.m. | Pitchaya Santativongchai, “Development of turkey reproductive tract epithelial organoids as an in vitro model for reproductive biology research”

    • Oral Session 2: Cherrywood Room (Floor 2)

      • 1:00 p.m. | Jose Efrain Ortiz Solorzano, “Developing methods to study tar spot, an emerging disease threatening corn production in the U.S.”
      • 1:12 p.m. | Ayoub Kechchour, “In-Season Diagnosis of Corn Nitrogen and Water Status Using UAV Multispectral and Thermal Remote Sensing”
      • 1:24 p.m. | Julian Scott Cooper, “An RGB based deep neural network approach for field-based high throughput phenotyping of Fusarium Head Blight in wheat”
      • 1:36 p.m. | Fabio Miguel Fuhr, “Potential for chemical control of the soybean tentiform leafminer (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), a new pest of soybean”
      • 1:48 p.m. | Kathleen Kay TanMarkham, “A new way of pathotyping Phytophthora sojae, a pathogen threatening Minnesota soybeans”
  • 2–4 p.m. | Poster sessions and demos (North Star Ballroom, 2nd floor)
    • Poster presenters: North Star Ballroom will open at 12:30 p.m. for poster set up. Make sure your poster is ready for viewing by 2 p.m. Maximum poster size allowed is 4' x 4' (any size smaller than those dimensions will fit on the easel.)
  • 4–5 p.m. | Plenary session (Theater)
    •  Dr. Gretchen Hansen: “Invasive zebra mussels: What we know, what we don't know, and what we can do about it."
    • Awards for competing posters and oral presentations will be presented at the end of the plenary talk.

Abstracts

The abstracts that will be presented are available in these documents prepared in large font or compact version to reduce paper use if printing:

PDF of 2024 abstracts - large font

PDF of 2024 abstracts - compact

Accessibility

The CFANS Research Symposium planning committee is committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all attendees. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to participate and enjoy our event to the fullest. 

To ensure accessibility, we offer accessible & gender neutral restrooms, ADA parking, elevators, a PDF of all abstracts available before the event, and reserved front-row seating.

We are committed to continuously improving the accessibility of our events. If you have any suggestions or feedback, please do not hesitate to let us know.

Questions?

If you have any questions, please contact the co-chairs:
Mary Buschette (mbuschet@umn.edu)
Milena Saqui-Salces (msaquisa@umn.edu)