Speaking Schedule and Recent Appearances

Upcoming Talks

• November 7, 2009. Key Note Address. Food, sustainability and plant science: a global challenge, Heidelberg, Germany

• December 2, 2009. Sustainable Agriculture Symposium, Iowa State University

• December 4, 2009. Dept Genetics, Development and Cell Biology Department, Iowa State

• January 13, 2010. Maine Agricultural Trade Show, Augusta, Maine

• February 1, 2010. Key note address. Association of Applied Ecologists, Napa

• February 21, 2010. Biophysical Society, San Franscisco

• March 5, 2010. Reed College Biology Department

• April 30, 2010. Graduate Student Invited Speaker in the Jack and Pat Bryan Life Lecture Series. Syracuse University

Recent appearances

• October 25-30, 2009. 9th International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology, St Louis
  

• October 19, 2009. National Association of Science Writers Award Dinner, Austin, Texas.

• October 7, 2009. California Wheat Collaborative, UC Davis.

• September 30, 2009. Department of Energy JBEI site visit

• September 22, 2009. Carnegie Institute of Science Dept Plant Biology, Stanford

• September 16, 2009. Workshop on rice sustainability, Mars Inc. Washington DC

• September 14, 2009. U.S. State Department Conference "Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: What Will It Take.

• September 10, 2009. "Coexistence and Synergy with Traditional Agricultures" at Yale's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. Yale University

• September 9, 2009. Broad Institute. The Joint Bioenergy Institute.

• July 28, 2009. Seminars About Long-term Thinking (SALT) organized by The Long Now Foundation. Organically grown/genetically engineered: The food of the future. Doors open 7:00pm, talk at 7:30pm lasting ~1.5 hours. Cowell Theatre in Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, California

• July 8, 2009. Presentation to Maura O'Neill the newly appointed Senior Advisor for Energy and Climate and Dr. Raj Smith Undersecretary of Research, Education and Economics for the Department of Agriculture

• July 1, 2009. 6th World Conference of Science Journalists, Stories that matter to a changing world, London

• June 23, 2009. University of Rome

• June 26, 2009. John Innes Center, Norwich, UK

• May 22, 2009. Telluride Mountain Film Festival

• May 11-12, 2009. Seed Biotechnology symposium, UC Davis

• May 5, 2009, 1-3pm. Organic Farming, Genetics and the Future of Food, Partnership to cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa. 499 S. Capitol Street, SW Ste# 500B, Washington, D.C. 20003

• May 4, 2009. Genes to Products – Agricultural Plant, Microbe, and Biobased Product Research. Bethesda, MD at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center.

• April 15, 2009. Reed College centennial celebration, San Francisco

• March 1, 2009. Tasting Histories; Food and Drink through the Ages, UC Davis

• February, 2009. Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis 

• February 5, 2009. University of Hawaii, Manoa

• February 5, 2009. The Hawaii State Legislature

• February 5, 2009. Office of Hawaiian Affairs

• February 6, 2009. Hawaii Crop Improvement Association

• February 7, 2009. University of Hawaii, Hilo

• February, 2009. Alternatives in Agriculture seminar, UC Davis

• January, 2009. “Sustaining agriculture through global collaborations in the plant sciences”, Workshop on Future Horizons of Plant Sciences at Howard Hughes Medical Institute

• January 24, 2009. State Agricultural and Rural Leaders Legislative Chairs Summit, San Diego

• December, 2008. Presentation to the Undersecretary of Agriculture, Gale Buchanan, UC Riverside

• December, 2008. Presentation to the Undersecretary of Energy, Ray Orbach, Joint Bioenergy Institute

• November, 2008. International Rice Functional Genomics, Jeju, Korea

• November, 2008. The Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, India

• November, 2008. Chinsurah Rice Experiment Station, West Bengal, India

• November, 2008. Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh

• November, 2008. The Indian Institute of Agricultural Sciences

• November, 2008. The University of Delhi

• November 25, 2008. Corvallis State University, Food for Thought Lecture series

• November 21, 2008. The Campus Community Book Project, Global Food Situation: UC Davis Faculty Analysis and Response

• November 17, 2008. UC Davis Centennial Symposia, Foods for Health in the 21st Century: A roadmap for the Future

• October  20, 2008. National Institute of Technology Standards, Accelerating Innovation in 21st Century Biosciences, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 USA

• October 9-10. 2008. UC Davis Research Retreat on Host Microbe Interactions, Tahoe City

• September 26, 2008. Arcadia Biosciences, Davis CA

• September 26, 2008. 7:30 p, Appetizers start at 7 PM , Placer Nature Center, 4th Friday lecture series Auburn, CA. Each Main Course includes a seasonal appetizer of delectable local music which ranges from folk and jazz, chamber to blues. These specialities are homegrown including the Auburn Concert Band, Aisle 6, Confluence, and the Raspberry Jam String Band. Each Main Course ends with a riveting Question & Answer Period. Download information and flyer here

• September 13, 2008. 2 pm, San Mateo Public Library

• September 11, 2008. Home Garden Seed Association, UC Davis

• September 11, 2008. 1:30, National Seed Growers Association, UC Davis Seed Biotechnology Center

• September 9, 2008. 7 am LIVE, KVON 1440AM - Wine Country News & Talk - Napa, CA

• September 4, 2008. Virginia Bioinformatics Institute Faculty Retreat

• August 14, 2008. Monsanto, Davis, CA

• August 6, 2008. Washington, DC, Ronald speaks at the National Research Council (NRC) Workshop on Twenty-first Century Systems NRC convened a committee to examine the scientific foundations of production systems and management practices that contribute to a farm's sustainability, and explore the social, economic and political factors that influence the adoption of such systems and practices by farmers in the United States and abroad

• August 5, 2008. The Inoculated Mind- Mindcast weekly science radio

• June 27, 2008. 11 am PDT, How She Really Does It, KDRT 101.5 FM in Davis, CA. Download the podcast here

• June 23, 2008. Food Fight, Oxford University Press

• June 21, 2008. 7:30 pm PDT, The Avid Reader, Davis

• June 18, 2008. Center for Cancer Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA “The rice innate immunity network”
  

• June 17, 2008. Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital. “Tomorrow’s Table”

• June 9, 2008. Grass Genetics, presentation to the Bioenergy Research Centers, Asilomar

• June 5, 2008. Solving the Food Crisis With an Unlikely Alliance, U.S. News and World Report

• June 3, 2008. 12:30 p, International Food Information Council

• May 27, 2008. 5:30-6p, Local Dirt, KDVS, 90.3 FM 

• May 22, 2008. UC Davis Robert Mondavi Institute, Center for Fruit and Vegetable 
  Quality, 242 Asmundson, UC Davis

• May 17, 2008. 3 p, Science Fantastic radio talk show, please call 800-449-8255 to ask questions!

• May 12, 2008. 2-4p, University of Arizona, Department of Plant Sciences

• May 5, 2008. “Opportunities and Challenges in University Research” The University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

• May 1, 2008. 6 am EST, Hear Pam and Raoul on WNYC and Public Radio International's new program "The Takeaway"

• April 24, 2008. 7:30 pm, Mrs. Dalloway’s bookstore,2904 College Ave., Berkeley, CA. (510) 704-8222

• April 15, 2008. 2 pm, Capital Public Radio's "Insight" Hosted by Douglss Everett, on KXJZ. Listen here.

• April, 2008. JBEI Industrial Advisory Board

• March, 2008. Kyoto Prefectural University

• March, 2008. University of Kyoto

• March, 2008. Kyoto University

• March, 2008. Nara Institute of Science and Technology

• February, 2008. Purdue University
  

• February, 2008. Virginia Bioinformatics Institute