Plant Sciences Institute Special Seminar

Speaker: Joe Cornelius, Ph.D.

Title: The new horizon for agriculture

Dr. Joe Cornelius currently serves as a program director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E). His focus at ARPA-E includes bioenergy production and conversion as a renewable and sustainable energy source, transportation fuel and chemical feedstock—applying innovations in biotechnology, genomics, metabolic engineering, molecular breeding, computational analytics, remote sensing and precision robotics to improve biomass energy density, production intensity and environmental impact.

An informal reception and refreshments will be served in the MBB Atrium at 4 p.m.