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42 SEEDWORLD.COM SEPTEMBER 2015 HONORING EXCEPTIONALISM CONTINUED 2015 Early Career Award This award recognizes a public or private sector scientist who is in the early stages of their career and active in the plant breeding field. This individual exhibits the ability to establish strong research foundations interacts with multi-disciplinary teams and participates in professional societies relevant to their discipline. Jennifer Yates global soybean breeding agronomic traits lead at Monsanto was recognized with the 2015 NAPB Early Career Award. After earning her doctorate in 2006 Yates went to work for Monsanto as a soybean breeder in Galena Md. She is credited with developing or co-developing 86 soybean varieties in maturity groups 3 and 5 during the transition to the Roundup Ready 2 Yield platform facilitating sales of 1 billion. Yates also established a protocol for marker-assisted selection and implemented changes to proprietary marker-tracking software. Her work in marker development and trait mapping led to 5 marker-related patents. Yates has earned several internal awards for her accomplishments that include the development of a pollen preservation technique and elucidating the role of the rhg1 paralog in conferring soybean cyst nematode resistance. In 2011 she stepped into her current role which involved responsibility for soybean disease and abiotic stress pipeline screening and discovery in the United States Argentina and Brazil. Her team is engaged in the prescriptive agricultural space facilitating early selection for resistance to new pathogens to enable growers to produce soybeans in a more sustainable way. Additionally she coordinates Monsantos internship educational program for post graduates and mentors other female scientists in crop improvement. Student Poster Awards Planning for the Future Not only did meeting participants vote on the position of how new plant breeding technologies should be handled by government policies but they also learned about the new joint strategic plan for NAPB and PBCC which was presented by Barry Tillman NAPB past president. Tillman explains that the process for coming up with the strategic plan began in 2014 and included a group of both public and private sector plant breeders. A consultant was brought in to help facilitate the exchange of ideas and keep the group moving in a forward direction. WHEREON THE WEB Seed World had the opportunity to sit down with several industry leaders while at the 2015 NAPB and PBCC annual meeting. You can listen in to what they had to say about industry issues in our Giant Views video series at SeedWorld.com. PBSint Impressive presentation of Maria Salas Fernandez sorghum breeding programme at Iowa State esp using novel technology to evaluate. napb2015 The strategic plan outlines short-term 5 years and long-term 10 to 15 years goals and identifies an action plan with the initial steps for achieving those goals Tillman explains. Additionally he says the plan clarifies the roles and operations of NAPB and PBCC while increasing the organizations ability to think and manage strategically as an ongoing process. The mission of NAPB is to strengthen plant breeding to promote food security quality of life and a sustainable future Tillman says. We will work collectively to fulfill that mission by helping to create a future in which strong public and private sectors work independently and together to deliver varieties and improved germplasm to society. Well work to ensure that the value and importance of plant breeding to food security quality of life and a sustainable future are known and appreciated by the public. Furthermore our efforts will cement that plant breeding is viewed as a dynamic problem solving and creative pro- fession. NAPB intends to become a recognized and valued advocate for plant breeding research and education helping to guide and implement a cohesive national plant breeding agenda. From the strategic planning process Tillman outlined six goals set forth by the association 1. Increase support for plant breeding among decision-makers in the public and private sectors. 2. Increase public and private support for cultivar development and germplasm improvement in public institutions. 3. Strengthen education for plant breeding professionals at all levels of experience. 4. Increase public awareness of plant breeding and what it contributes to the public good. Student Oral Awards First place is James Heilig of Michigan State University second place is Kathleen Russell of University of Kentucky and third place is Jozer Mangandi of University of Florida. First place David Eickholt North Carolina State University Second place Andrea Varella Montana State University Third place Paul Sandefur Washington State University 5. Strengthen and increase the value provided to members. 6. Strengthen the NAPB organization. To view the strategic plan as it was presented at the 2015 annual NAPB and PBCC meeting visit plantbreeding.orgfilesnapb2015-strategic-plan- ning-presentation.pdf. SW