Past Speakers
2025 Honoree Dr. Chris Smart, Goichman Family Director, Cornell AgriTech Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science, Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
2024 Honoree Dr. JIm Adaskaveg, Professor and Plant Pathologist at the University of California – Riverside
2023 Honoree Dr. Hailing Jin, Professor and Cy Mouradick Endowed Chair University of California, Riverside in Riverside, CA
2022 Honoree Dr. Jan Leach, Associate Dean for Research & University Distinguished Professor in the College of Agricultural Science at Colorado State University
2021 Honoree Dr. Rodrigo Almeida, Professor, Hildebrand-Laumeister Chair in Plant Pathology, Chair, Division of Organisms & Environment Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley
2019 Honoree Dr. Carolyn Young, Professor, Noble Research Institute
2025 - Dr. Chris Smart
2024 - Dr. Jim Adaskaveg
2023 - Dr. Hailing Jin
2022 - Dr. Jan Leach
2021 - Dr. Rodrigo Almedia
2020 - No event
2019 - Dr. Carolyn Young
2018 - Dr. Gary Bergstrom
2017 - Dr. Alan Collmer
2016 Dr. Anna Whitfield
2015 Dr. Eric Triplett
2014 Dr. Amy Rossman
2013 Dr. Charles M. Rush
2012 Dr. Christopher C. Mundt
2011 Dr. Scott Hulbert
2010 Dr. Charles Bacon
2009 Dr. Dave Rizzo
2008 Dr. Linda Kohn
2007 Dr. Michael Rinaldi
2006 Dr. Roger Beachy
2005 Dr. Anne Vidaver
2004 Dr. Vince Morton
2003 Dr. Richard Howard
2002 Dr. Jesse Dubin
2001 Dr. Steve Lindow
2000 Dr. Jan Leach
1999 Dr. Olin Yoder
1998 Dr. Bill Dawson
1997 Dr. David Gilchrist
1996 Dr. Bill Fry
1995 Dr. Michele Heath
1994 Dr. Joe Kuc
1993 Dr. Paul Williams
1992 Dr. Arthur Kellman
1991 Dr. Jim Cook
1990 Dr. Jack Rogers