Microbiome AgBioTech Summit 2017

Featuring some of agriculture’s foremost innovators, the Microbiome AgBioTech Summit will focus on five essential areas:

• Understand complex plant-microbiome communications to influence efficacy and stability of microbial based products
• Build discovery platforms to effectively transition between laboratory and farm application
• Integrate novel and cost effective technology for community identification and functionality analysis
• Discover creative solutions to advance the utility and viability of biostimulant and biocontrol agents.
• Outline successful formulation, delivery  and regulatory frameworks to guarantee future development of microbial products

By 2050, the demand for agricultural production will have increased by 70%. The scientific community has therefore focused their efforts on redefining agricultural practice to improve productivity, increase yields and sustainably preserve crucial resources.

The inaugural Microbiome AgBioTech Summit will prioritize how soil, plant and animal microbiomes can be engineered for efficient nutrient recycling, sophisticated pest and pathogen control and to help alleviate the detrimental impact of abiotic stress factors.

By bringing together pioneering microbial experts from industry and academia, this meeting will find solutions to the greatest problems, challenges and opportunities involved in industrial production and commercialization of beneficial microbial strains for widespread agricultural application.

Now is the time to revolutionize agriculture by fighting macroscopic challenges with a microscopic army.

• Identify the crucial characteristics of plant-microbiome interactions through a systems-level perspective, guided by world class microbiome research
• Understand how Monsanto and Bayer Crop Science are applying culture-independent metagenomics to uncover new microbial communities and novel functions that can be exploited for industrial agriculture
• Learn how to significantly improve the ability of microbes to alleviate the negative impact of abiotic and biotic stress factors on crop productivity
• Hear from BioConsortia, AgBiome, and NewLeaf Symbiotics as they delve into the most successful scientific and production strategies necessary to bring commercially viable biocontrol and bioinoculant products to market
• Join the likes of Novozymes, Agrinos and Azotic Technologies in designing and analysing effective field trial studies to seamlessly translate discoveries from the laboratory to the producers field
• Develop full-scale models to characterise and predict plant-microbe interactions and simulate
• environmental diversity
• Address delivery, efficacy and practicality issues to guarantee future developments of microbial products
• Hear how the U5DA are establishing new opportunities in the microbiome for improved animal health and nutrition
• Through an interactive session with NC State University, understand the benefits of forging complimentary partnerships to boost foundational and translational microbiome research
• Use techniques from MIT to analyze microbial diversity and identify beneficial populations of microbes in complex environments