The UC Davis – Mars Symposium is a day-long event to
explore scientific discovery, innovation and collaboration in food,
agriculture and health.
Innovation Institute for Food and
Health ceremony
Linda P.B. Katehi (Chancellor,
UC Davis) and
Harold H. Schmitz (Chief
Science Officer, Mars, Incorporated)
Presentation: African Orphan Crops
Consortium, An Uncommon Collaboration
Howard-Yana Shapiro (Chief
Agricultural Officer, Mars, Incorporated)
Allen Van Deynze (Director
of Research, Seed Biotechnology Center, UC Davis)
Panel discussion: “Solving agriculture’s greatest challenges”
Moderator: William
Clark (Professor of International Science, Harvard Kennedy School)
Howard-Yana Shapiro (Chief
Agricultural Officer, Mars, Incorporated)
Benjamin D. Santer (Climate
researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Alan S. Rudolph (Vice
President for Research, Colorado State University)
Jason Clay (Senior
Vice President of Food & Markets,
World Wildlife Fund)
Panel discussion: “The role Venture Capital can play in driving innovation clusters and solving grand challenges
at the nexus of food, agriculture and health”
Moderator: William
Clark (Professor of International Science, Harvard Kennedy School),
Geoffrey Smith (Managing
Director, Mars Grand Challenges Ventures, Mars, Incorporated),
Jagdeep Singh Bachher
(CIO, UC Board of Regents),
Holden Thorp (Provost
and Professor of Chemistry and Medicine, Washington University in St Louis),
Carl Schramm (University
Professor, Syracuse University)
Moderator’s summary and wrap-up of the
panel discussions:
William Clark (Professor
of International Science, Harvard Kennedy School)
Ceremony:
Appointment of Howard-Yana
Shapiro (Chief Agricultural Officer, Mars, Incorporated)
as a Mars Advanced Research Institute
Fellow
Harold H. Schmitz (Chief
Science Officer, Mars, Incorporated)
Alan Bennett (Distinguished
Professor, Plant Sciences, UC Davis)
Stephen Badger (Mars,
Incorporated)
Ralph Jerome (Vice
President, Corporate Innovation, Mars, Incorporated)
Closing comments by co-emcees:
Harold H. Schmitz (Chief
Science Officer, Mars, Incorporated) and
Heather Young (Associate
Vice Chancellor for Nursing;
Dean, Betty Irene
Moore School of Nursing, UC Davis)
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