This year at Plant Biology 2015 in Minneapolis – we are organizing a variety of activities to help you navigate your career in plant science. These include:
- Career Workshops
- Job Opportunities
- Resume Review
- Career Coaching
- Panel Discussions
Onsite Career Center
- Get your resume reviewed. Register for your time slot now!
- Volunteer to review resumes
- Participate in Career Chats to learn about different career paths
- Explore current job opportunities on the job boards
Career Workshops and Panels
- The Industry Option: Things You Might Want to Know
- Work-Life Balance panel discussion
- Career Workshop with Sarah Blackford
- USDA, DOE and NSF Grantsmanship Workshop
- Build Your Career with The Plant Cell and Plant Physiology with speakers Mike Blatt and Sabeeha Merchant
- Career Diversity in Plant Science dinner and panel discussion
- Resolving Conflict in the Academic Workplace luncheon with speaker Sharon B. Press
- Primarily Undergraduate Poster Session
Strategies use to promote biodiversity in agricultural ecosystem is a complex process. Managing Biodiversity in Agricultural Ecosystems is more complex one. It includes how farmers manage, maintain, and utilize biodiversity in agricultural production systems. As the assessment includes farmer management practices for crop, livestock, aquatic, and associated diversity in agricultural ecosystems; examine the potential role of diversity in increasing yield, minimizing pest and disease, pressures in crop production are essential. Same is the case with livestock, poultry birds, fish and other aquatic animals. Most of the times excessive or moderate use of inputs like, fertilizers, insecticides, pesticides, causes damage to biodiversity within agricultural ecosystems. In general natural ecosystems destruction mainly defends on an awareness of the farmer’s role in crop production. The knowledge of agricultural sustainability; and the public’s interest in growing more food, fiber, feed production, as well as relates to the quality and health of agricultural products and the environmental impact of agricultural production play vital role in management of agricultural and natural ecosystems in Agricultural biodiversity. In short, our crops and farm animals could not survive without human assistance.