2011 Kriton Hatzios Symposium

Each year our Vice-Chair organizes a symposium on a topic of interest. This year, Dr. Rebecca Dickstein organized a series of talks that address the role of abiotic stress on plants and possible ways to cope with it.

Dr.
Barbara Demmig-Adams, Dept. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University Colorado, Boulder
"Photosynthesis, Photoprotection, and the Environment"

Dr.
Robert E. Sharp, Dept. of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri
"Root Growth Under Water Deficits: Physiological Complexity and Coordination"

Dr. Paxton Payton, USDA ARS Cropping Systems Research Lab, Lubbock, TX
"Systems Approaches for Improving Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance"