Program
Registration includes coffee, lunch, and dinner on Sept. 17 and 18, and coffee and lunch on Sept. 19. Registration does not include breakfast daily.
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Monday, September 16th - Wildland Gathering (Optional Add On, Must Pre-Register)
- 7:30 - 8:00 am
- Registration and Buses Depart from Denver Botanic Gardens, York Street Cut-out
- 9 am - 3 pm
- Wildland Gathering at the Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms
Tuesday, September 17 (Day 1, all times MDT)
- 7:30 - 8:00 am
- Registration and Coffee at Denver Botanic Gardens, in the Freyer Newman Center, 1085 York St.
- 8:00 am - 9:30 am Welcome and Symposium Kick Off in the Sturm Family Auditorium
- Keynote presentation: Reverse Engineering Western Agriculture with Crop Wild Relatives Breeding and Direct Use
- Gary Nabhan, Author and Ethnobotanist
- Setting the Table for Conserving North America's Crop Wild Relatives and Wild Utilized Plants
- Tara Moreau, University of British Columbia Botanical Garden
- Keynote presentation: Reverse Engineering Western Agriculture with Crop Wild Relatives Breeding and Direct Use
- 9:30 am Morning Break
- 9:45 am - 12 noon CWR Road Map 1: Document, Assess, & Determine Conservation Gaps
- Progress on distribution mapping and conservation gap analysis for crop wild relatives, including an inventory of U.S. Forest Service lands
- Colin Khoury, San Diego Botanic Garden
Dan Carver, Colorado State University
- Colin Khoury, San Diego Botanic Garden
- Towards an integrative strategy for the conservation of crop wild relatives in Canada
- Jens Ulrich, University of British Columbia
- An overview of crop wild relatives in the Mexican context
- Francisca Acevedo, (retired) CONABIO
- Panel Discussion: National CWR Prioritization
- Moderated by Colin Khoury, San Diego Botanic Garden
Francisca Acevedo, (retired) CONABIO
Dan Carver, Colorado State University
Jens Ulrich, University of British Columbia
- Moderated by Colin Khoury, San Diego Botanic Garden
- Which species are the wild progenitors of our future crops?
- Allison Miller, Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis University, Missouri Botanical Garden
- Lightning Talk: Little barley (Hordeum pusillum)
- Andrew Salywon, Desert Botanical Garden
- Lightning Talk: Indigenous agriculture and the political ecology of irrigated "wild" crops: a Nüümü Conservation Concern
- Milo Vella, Bishop Paiute Tribe
- NatureServe’s role in plant conservation
- Wes Knapp, NatureServe
- Lightning Talk: A Census and The Conservation of Malus coronaria in Michigan
- Lily Kaz Christian, Michigan State University
- Progress on distribution mapping and conservation gap analysis for crop wild relatives, including an inventory of U.S. Forest Service lands
- 12 noon Lunch - Mitchell Hall in the Boettcher Memorial Center
- 1:00 - 3:45 pm CWR Road Map 2: Protect in Natural Habitats
- In situ conservation of crop wild relatives in the U.S.: Case studies featuring Vitis and cranberry
- Anne Frances, USDA ARS Plant Exchange Office
- In situ case study: Surveying hotspots for desert-adapted crop wild relatives in the Borderlands
- Erin Riordan, Arizona Sonora Desert Museum
- In situ case study: Restoring Agaves for Bats in the Borderlands
- Francesca Claverie, Borderlands Restoration
- In situ case study: Manoomin: Do You Know What It Is?
- Roger LaBine, Native Wild Rice Coalition, Michigan Wild Rice Initiative
- Panel Discussion: Land Management for CWR/WUP
- Moderated by Anne Frances, USDA ARS
Carol Dawson, Bureau of Land Management
Terri Schulz, The Nature Conservancy
Tyler Johnson, USDA Forest Service
- Moderated by Anne Frances, USDA ARS
- Lightning Talk: Seeds of Success Collection at the National Plant Germplasm System, a resource for genetic diversification and developing sustainable food systems
- Bailey Hallwachs, USDA ARS NPGS
- Knowing the Land: Indigenous Strategies for Revitalization and Adaptation
- Clint Carrol, University of Colorado, Boulder
- In situ conservation of crop wild relatives in the U.S.: Case studies featuring Vitis and cranberry
- 3:45 - 5:00 pm CWR Road Map 3: Collect and Conserve in Ex Situ Collections
- Opportunities for collaborations with the USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System
- Gayle Volk, USDA NCGRP
- Safeguarding the Oaks of the World through Collaborative Living Collection Partnerships
- Amy Byrne, The Morton Arboretum
- Increasing the role of botanic gardens in ex situ conservation, research, and public outreach on crop diversity: challenges, opportunities, and collaborative solutions
- Hannes Dempewolf, Gothenburg Botanical Garden; Antonelli Foundations for Biodiversity Conservation and Research
- Lightning Talk: Developing a tool for ex situ gap analysis and metacollection management
- Dan Carver, Colorado State University
- Lightning Talk: Pubescent-Fruited Prunus in Texas
- Phillip Schulze, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
- Opportunities for collaborations with the USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System
- 5:15 pm
- Buses depart from Denver Botanic Gardens, Freyer Newman Cutout
- 6:00 - 9:00 pm
- Sunset tours and dinner at the Denver Botanic Gardens' Chatfield Farms
Wednesday, September 18 (Day 2)
- 7:30 - 8:00 am
- Registration and Coffee at Denver Botanic Gardens, in the Freyer Newman Center, 1085 York St.
- 8:00 am Welcome in the Sturm Family Auditorium
- 8:05 - 10 am CWR Road Map 4: Make accessible and attractive to plant breeders, researchers, and educators
- Kinship Genomics: Systems Orchestration of Indigenous Science and Western Science for Sustainable Biocultural Futures
- Ňkwi K. Flores, Kinray Hub
- Successes, challenges, and opportunities for using crop wild relatives in plant breeding
- Pat Byrne, Colorado State University
- Harnessing the potential of perennial fruit crop wild relatives
- Zoë Migicovsky, Acadia University
- A Window Between Crop Wild Relatives (CWRs) and Botanical Garden Perspectives on Partnership
- Hector Ortiz, Chicago Botanic Garden
- Lightning Talk: There’s a Whole Lot of Saving Needed Before You Can Save Seeds
- Mervyn Tano, International Institute for Indigenous Management
- Lightning Talk: Conserving ancient crops of crop wild relatives - a unique situation requiring a unique collaborative approach
- Wendy Hodgson, Desert Botanic Garden
- Kinship Genomics: Systems Orchestration of Indigenous Science and Western Science for Sustainable Biocultural Futures
- 10 am Morning Break
- 10:15 am - 12 noon CWR Road Map Priority 5: Raise public awareness of their value and the threats to their persistence
- Communicating about Crop Wild Relatives
- Devin Dotson, United States Botanic Garden
- Native Not for Profit Communicating
- Roger Fragua, Flower Hill Institute
- Lightning Talk: Leveraging an agriculture-centered approach to enhance plant conservation communication
- Elena Leander, University of Texas at Austin
- Lightning Talk: Introducing our Community To Crop Wild Relatives at a Botanical Garden
- Catherine Callaway, University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley
- Lightning Talk: What endangered plants can tell us
- Mary Fernandes, Solis Agrosciences
- Lightning Talk: Do Crop Wild Relatives have a PR problem?
- Nan McCarry, BGCI-US
- Communicating about Crop Wild Relatives
- 12 noon Lunch - boxed lunches in the Freyer Newman Center
- 12:30 pm
- Buses depart from Denver Botanic Gardens, Freyer Newman Cutout
- 2:00 - 3:30
- 5:30 - 7:30 pm
- Reception at Denver Botanic Gardens, in the Annual Garden
Thursday, September 19 (Day 3)
- 7:30 - 8:00 am
- Registration and Coffee at Denver Botanic Gardens, in the Freyer Newman Center, 1085 York St.
- 8:00 am Welcome in the Sturm Family Auditorium
- 8:05 - 9:50 am CWR/WUP Barriers and Solutions
- Reuniting Seeds and their People: A Seed Rematriation Case Study
- Shiloh Maples, Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science, University of Michigan
- Recap and Discussion on Barriers and Solutions
- Abby Meyer, BGCI-US
Stephanie Greene, BGCI-US
- Abby Meyer, BGCI-US
- Panel Discussion: Overcoming Financing Challenges for CWR/WUPs
- Moderated by Ari Novy, San Diego Botanic Garden
Hannes Dempewolf, Gothenburg Botanical Garden; Antonelli Foundations for Biodiversity Conservation and Research
Tim Crews, Land Institute
Roger Fragua, Flower Hill Institute
Paul Gepts, UC Davis, Department of Plant Sciences; member of NGRAC
Jim McFerson, Director (retired) WSU Tree Fruit ReseaRch and Extension Center, current chair of NGRAC
- Moderated by Ari Novy, San Diego Botanic Garden
- Reuniting Seeds and their People: A Seed Rematriation Case Study
- 9:50 am Morning Break
- 10:05 am - 12:05 pm Symposium Wrap-up: Recap and Discussion on Next Steps
- 12 noon - 1:00 pm Lunch - boxed lunches in Mitchell Hall
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- 1:00 - 4:30 pm
- Optional post-symposium event: Herbaceous Perennial Grains working group meeting. Learn more on Registration page.
- Mitchell Hall in the Boettcher Memorial Center
- Convened by Allison Miller, St. Louis University, Missouri Botanical Garden
- Optional post-symposium event: Herbaceous Perennial Grains working group meeting. Learn more on Registration page.