NATIONAL PREDICTIVE MODELING TOOL INITIATIVE
ANNUAL MEETING AGENDA
Wednesday, 28 October
1:00 – 1:30 pm – Welcome and Introductions: Tim Widmer / Pete Snyder
1:30 – 2:15 pm – Rohan Kimber, SARDI, SA, Australia: Spore trapping networks in Australia (Technology overview, biggest advantages and challenges, future of the network, detection technology and data management)
2:15 – 3:15 pm – How the suite of tools that Los Alamos National Laboratory developed to model and predict human health diseases can be adapted to agriculture: Alina Deshpande / Jeanne Fair
3:15 – 3:30 pm – Break
3:30 – 4:00 pm – Corn RAC overview (Alison Robertson, chair and Damon Smith, co-chair)
4:00 – 4:30 pm – Cotton RAC overview (Heather Kelly, chair and Kater Hake, co-chair)
4:30 – 5:00 pm – Wheat RAC overview (Jake Westlin, chair and Erick De Wolf, co-chair)
Thursday, 29 October
8:00 – 8:15 am – Recap from Wednesday: Tim Widmer
8:15 – 9:30 am – Proposed Changes in NPMTI Governance: Pete Snyder
- Streamlining NPMTI operations
- Election of NPMTI officers (chair and co-chair)
- Review/Discuss a master calendar of events
- Discussion of NPMTI/RAC membership and potential fees
9:30 – 9:45 am – Break
9:45 – 10:45 am – Processing, submission, standardization of sample collection: Megan O’Neil (NAGC), Pierce Paul (OSU), Heather Kelly (UTN) and Joshua Birkebak (Assured Bio Labs)
10:45 – 12:00 noon – Review prioritized proposals forwarded from each RAC, develop a master list (with alternates) to recommend to USDA-ARS for funding: Each RAC Chair and Co-chair
ALL TIMES ARE CENTRAL DAYLIGHT TIME