Speaking Schedule and Recent Appearances

Upcoming Talks

• September 13, 2013. 2nd Annual International Conference on Genomics in the Americas, 8:30-9:50am, on the topic of agriculture, Sacramento

• October 19-22, 2013. Invited Speaker, The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo (FNCE), Houston, TX

• November 4-5, 2013. Bayer 150th Anniversary Symposium, Leverkusen, Germany

• November 12, 2013. Mary Snow Lecture, University of Oxford, Department of Plant Sciences

• July 20, 2014. Biffen Lecture. John Innes Institute

Recent appearances

• May 9, 2013. Host-microbe interactions, The UC Davis Genome Center, 12:10pm

• May 3, 2013. "How can we feed the world’s growing population without further destroying the environment?" An Evening with the Genome Center, Pence Gallery, 7:30p, Davis

• April 23-24, 2013. Inaugural speaker for the BASF/NCSU Molecular Biotechnology Symposium

• April 7-12, 2013. Invited Speaker, Keystone Symposia meeting on Plant Immunity: Pathways and Translation, in Big Sky, Montana, USA

• March 21, 2013. Invited Speaker. Food: nutrition, nutritionism, energy, and the environment. Speciesism and the Future of Humanity: Biology, Culture, and Sociopolitics, Hosted by Stanford Center for Conservation Biology and the Berkeley Department of Integrative Biology

• February 20, 2013. Arcadia Biosciences, Davis, CA
  

• February 15-19, 2013. Keynote Speaker, Food 3000, Vancouver, British Columbia

• February 13, 2013. Heuermann Lectures, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

• January 23, 2013. Climate Change Adaptation Consortium, CDFA, Seaside, CA

• January 8-9, 2013. Plant Science Research Summit, Howard Hughes Medical Center

• December 12, 2012. "The genetic basis for immunity and flood tolerance in rice". The Institute de Biologie Moleculaire des Plantes, Strasbourg

• December 5, 2012. Meeting of the Scientific advisors, Valagro, Milan

• November 19, 2012. Keynote Speaker, Les mécanismes des interactions biotiques entre micro-organismes, Keynote Address Food, farming and genetics. Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France.  Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair Université de Montpellier 2 and the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

• November 15, 2012. Sponsors Showcase 5-6 pm at the Mission City Ballroom in the Santa Clara Convention center and Tech Awards Gala

• November 14, 2012. Keynote event at the Hackworth IMAX DOME theater. Hosted by President Tim Ritchie, President of The Tech Museum, San Jose

• October 27-31, 2012. Louis Malassis International Scientific Prize for Agriculture and Food award ceremony, Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development, Punte del esta, Uruguay

• October 3, 2012. Invited Speaker, BASF symposium, Ghent

• October 3-5, 2012. Nature conference to explore recent advances in plant biology and biotechnology, Ghent, Belgium

• August 31, 2012. Invited speaker, “ Engineering rice for resistance to disease and tolerance to stress”, Uppsala University and Swedish agricultural university sponsored by The Linnean Centre for Plant Biology in Uppsala, The research programs Future Agriculture and MistraBiotech

• August 30, 2012. " Sustainable agriculture – does it need modern biotech?", Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Kungl. Skogs- och Lantbruksakademien, Drottninggatan 95 B, Stockholm, Sweden

• July 12, 2012. Invited speaker. The Great Debate- The Battle to Feed a Growing Planet, Sponsored by the Irish Science & Technology Journalists Association and Alchemist Café, Dublin

• July 11-14, 2012. Plenary speaker, Euroscience, Dublin

• July 9-11, 2012.  Keynote speaker, The Xanthomonas Genomics Conference, Angers, France

• June 18, 2012. "Skeptic Check: OMG, GMO?", Big Picture Science

• June 2, 2012. Conservation Remix, Seattle, Washington

• May 22, University of Georgia Department of Plant Biology

• May 18, 2012. Foods for Health Institute, UC Davis

• April 20, 2012. Modern Tools in Plant Breeding, sponsored in part by Pioneer Hi-Bred. UC Davis

• April 5th, 2012. Roundtable Discussion on Principles of Genetic Engineering to be held at the FDA/Center for Veterinary Medicine, Rockville, Maryland

• April 1-3, 2012. Cornell Symposium on Frontiers in the Life Sciences, Ithaca, New York

• March 26-28, 2012. Fifth Berkeley Bioeconomy Conference, U.C. Berkeley Alumni House

• February 29, 2012. NPR’s Big Picture Science

• February 9, 2012. 5-7:30pm - Seed Central keynote speaker on Plant Disease. Buehler Alumni and Visitor Center, UC Davis

• February 6, 2012. Ricenet: Network guided prediction of genes controlling the rice defense response, 10 am in 5206 GBSF, UCDavis. 
  

• January 25, 2012. "A Symposium on the Evolution of Common Molecular Pathways Underlying Innate Immunity", Murray B. Gardner Research Seminar Series. Center for Comparative Medicine, UC Davis

• January 18, 2012. Invited Speaker, Microbe Interaction Session at 20th Plant & Animal Genomics International conference.  “The rice XA21 receptor recognizes a conserved bacterial signaling molecule”. San Diego

• January 17, 2012. Invited Speaker, Systems Genomics workshop, at the 20th Plant & Animal Genomics International conference, “RIceNet: a systems approach to elucidating the biotic stress response.” San Diego

• January 17, 2012. Invited Speaker, Genomics-Assisted Breeding, at the 20th Plant & Animal Genomics International conference  “From seed to lab to farm: the story of Submergence tolerant rice”. San Diego

• January 10, 2012. Pacific Seed Association meeting

• December 14, 2011. Genome Center. Noon

• November 29, 2011. Panel Discussion on Cropping Systems for the Future, 4:10p, 248 Asmundsen Hall, UC Davis

• November 15, 2011. The rice biotic stress response, Chengdu University, Chengdu, China

• November 13, 2011. Invited Speaker, The Second International Conference on Biotic Plant Interactions, Kunming, China

• November 11, 2011. Invited Speaker, Yonsei University

• November 7-9, 2011. Plenary Speaker, 9th International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics, Taipei, Taiwan

• November 2, 2011. Live Chat with Dr. Pamela Ronald and Michael Dimock on Biotech Seeds. Hosted by U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance, UC Davis

• October 11, 2011. Recognition and Response In Innate Immunity.UCSF

• September 30, 2011. Invited Speaker. Plant Phosphorylation  meeting, Granlibakken, Tahoe

• September 26, 2011. Presidential council of advisors on science and technology, Washington DC

• September 22, 2011. The Food Dialogues, hosted by the U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance. UC Davis or New York City

• September 19-22, 2011. University of Saskatchewan, Canada

• September 8, 2011. Keynote Speaker, The 2011 Bioscience Vision Summit, BioForward’s annual conference. Madison Marriott West in Middleton, Wisconsin

• September 7, 2011. The Innate Immune Response:  Recognition of Conserved Microbial Signatures. Special Seminar, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium. University of Wisconsin-Madison

• August 26, 2011. AgraQuest, Davis, CA

• August 12-14, 2011. Google Science Foo Camp, MountainView, CA

• July 20, 2011. JBEI Scientific Advisory Board meeting

• July 18, 2011. Collaborative Research & Education in Agricultural Technologies & Engineering - Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship talk. UC Davis

• July 14, 2011. JBEI Industrial Advisory Board meeting

• June 22, 2011. United States State Department. The role of genetic improvement and farming practices in the future of food

• June 21, 2011. Charles Valentine Riley Lecture, Sponsored by AAAS, the World Food Prize committee and the Charles Valentine Riley Foundation. AAAS building, 1200 New York Avenue, WA DC. 3:30 pm.

• May 16, 2011. Agricultural biotechnology and public policy. UC Davis

• May 12, 2011. Emeriti Association lunch meeting, UC Davis

• May 6, 2011. "Dynamics: From Data to Models". 10th Annual Symposium of the New York University Center for Genomics and Systems Biology New York, NY

• May 4, 2011. Feeding the Future Colloquium. Keynote lecture. Michigan State University

• April 11, 2011. Department of Energy, Genome Sciences Meeting, "The Switchgrass Genome". Arlington, VA

• March 28, 2011. Invited Speaker, Dept Biology, Stanford University, CA

• March 25, 2011. KPMG Luncheon Presentation - Directors meeting, Auckland, New Zealand

• March 24, 2011. The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited, Auckland, New Zealand

• March 23, 2011. NZBIO Conference, Sponsored by the Royal Society of New Zealand. Auckland, New Zealand

• March 22, 2011. Tomorrow's Table, Sponsored by the Royal Society of New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand

• March 14, 2011. Food Quality Traits Sustaining Agriculture for the 21st Century. UC Davis

• February 18, 2011. "Recognition and response in innate immunity" Genetics Graduate Group. Center for Companion Animal Health Bennett Conference Room, UC Davis

• February 15, 2011. Biotech Plants and Animals. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Princeton Environmental Institute

• February 8-10, 2011. Joint Bioenergy Institute retreat, Sonoma, CA

• Jan 18, 2011. 3:50 pm - 6:00: Perennial Grass workshop at PAG XIX, "Overview of the switchgrass genome sequencing project"

• January 17-19, 2011. Elucidating plant and animal innate immunity: pathogen recognition and response. Plant and Animal Genome XIX

• January 12, 2011. 4:00 p.m. UC Davis Chancellor’s Colloquium 
  Series, Panel discussion with Dr. Roger Beachy, director of the 
  National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), at the Larry and 
  Rosalie Vanderhoef Studio Theatre in the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.

• November 22, 2010. The Dr. Oz show, New York City

• November 15-16, 2010. Engineering New Crop Varieties Adapted to Rapid Climate Change. Governors' Global Climate Summit 3. The Mondavi Center.

• November 10, 2010. UCSF Biomedical Sciences Seminar Series. San Francisco, CA

• November 8, 2010. Recognition and response in Xa21-mediated innate immunity. Department of Biology, Colorado State University.

• November 7, 2010. Thornton-Massa Lecture at Colorado State University. Fort Collins, Colorado.

• November 6, 2010. Sustainable Agriculture Forum, 3-6pm, Silver Creek High School. Boulder County Parks and Open Space. Colorado (download flyer)

• September 30, 2010. USDA - National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Washington DC (download flyer)

• September 29, 2010. Department of Energy, Washington DC

• September 17, 2010. UC Davis Department of Plant Pathology Retreat. Davis, CA

• September 15, 2010. iBioseminar, UC San Francisco

• September 10, 2010. Keynote lecture UC Berkeley Department of Plant and Microbial Biology Retreat. Marconi Center, Point Reyes.

• August 25, 2010. California State Board of Food and Agriculture meeting.

• August 17, 2010. Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul South Korea

• August 12, 2010. Seminar, Kyung hee University

• August 11, 2010. Seminar in National Academy of Agricultural Science, RDA (Dr. Deokju Hwang)

• August 4-6, 2010.Tomorrow's Table (Raoul Adamchak) will serve on a panel at "Techonomy" (Aug. 4-6) at Lake Tahoe. The meeting, titled , will be attended by a broad mix of business leaders, academics and others, including Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt (Google CEO), Jeff Bezos (Amazon CEO), Willie Smits, Stewart Brand, Amory Lovins, Prabhu Pingali, and about 200 others.

• July 25-29. 2010.  "Bridges to Sustainability" - Aspen Environmental Forum. Aspen, Colorado.

• July 18-23, 2010. Gordon conference, Plant Molecular Biology. Holderness, NH

• July 14, 2010. Gates Foundation 10-11am: Town Square Dialogue

• June 1-2, 2010. JBEI IAC

• June 3-6, 2010. World Science Festival - Feeding a hungry World. NYC

• June 3, 2010. Modern MacGyvers: Innovations for a Developing World. World Science Festival, 7-8:30pm, Museum of Arts and Design, New York City

• June 4, 2010. Food 2.0: Feeding a Hungry World. World Science Festival, 7-8:30pm, Baruch Performing Arts Center (Engelman), New York City

• May 20, 2010. Cooking for Solutions 2010 - Sustainable Foods Institute. Monterey Bay Aquarium. Covered by The Washington Times
  

• May 5, 2010. When Politics Impedes Progress to Combat Hunger - BIO International Convention. Chicago

• May 5, 2010. Biotech Nation, a NPR weekly program focusing on the impact of technology, science, the media and Internet, radio interview.

• March 17, 2010 Keystone conference, Granlibakken

• March 5, 2010. Gabriel Lester Memorial Lecture, Reed College
  

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

• January 13, 2010. Maine Department of Agriculture, Maine Vegetable and Small Fruit Growers Association. Wednesday, January 13, 2010, Augusta Civic Center, Augusta, Maine

• January 7. Scripps Research Institute, San Diego

• December 12, 2009. Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak featured  on The Food Chain, a newstalk radio program.

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

• December 3, 2009. Host Greg Shanley talks with Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak authors of the book, "Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics and the Future of Food." Iowa Public Radio.

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

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

• 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