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Program:
subject to change

Click here to download draft of Scientific Program.

Click here to download Presenter instructions.

Sunday, October 19
noon - 5:00pm: Registration
Monday, October 20
9:00am - 8:00pm: Registration
9:00am - 5:00pm: Warm-up Tour of Biosphere II and Phoenix Mars Mission Operation Center
(addional registration fees apply)
6:30 - 8:00pm: Welcome Reception
Tuesday, October 21
7:00am - 6:00pm: Registration
7:00 - 8:00am: Continental Breakfast
8:00 - 10:00am: Opening Session and Keynote Lecture
10:00 - 10:30am: Break
10:30am - 12:30pm: Oral Presentations, 2 concurrent sessions
12:30 - 2:30pm: Lunch and Poster Sessions
2:30 - 4:30pm: Oral Presentations, 2 concurrent sessions
4:30 - 6:30pm: Social Networking Activity
Exhibitors open 7:30am - 5:00pm
Dinner on own
Wednesday, October 22
7:00am - 6:00pm: Registration
7:30 - 8:30am: Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30am: Keynote Lecture
9:30 - 10:00am: Break
10:00am - 12:00pm: Oral Presentations, 2 concurrent sessions
12:00 - 2:00pm: Lunch and Poster Sessions
2:00 - 3:00pm: Keynote Lecture
3:00 - 5:00pm: Oral Presentations, 2 concurrent sessions
Exhibitors open 8:00am - 5:00pm
Dinner on own
Thursday, October 23
7:30am - 6:00pm: Registration
7:30 - 8:30am: Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30am: Keynote Lecture
9:30 - 10:00am: Break
10:00am - 12:00pm: Oral Presentations, 2 concurrent sessions
12:00 - 2:00pm: Lunch and Poster Sessions
2:00 - 4:00pm: Oral Presentations, 2 concurrent sessions
6:30 - 9:30pm: Banquet
Exhibitors open 8:00am - 4:00pm
Friday, October 24 (see below for more information)
8:30am Depart for Controlled Environment and EuroFresh Tour (additional registration fees apply)
5:00pm Arrive back at hotel
Saturday, October 25 (see below for more information)
7:00am Depart for ISHS Greenhouse Post Workshop Tour to Mexico - 2 day, 1 night trip
(additional registration fees apply)

Invited Speakers:

Stefania De Pascale
The University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Presentation Title: "Plant Response to Environmental Stresses - Plant Stress Management in Semiarid Greenhouse"

Dr. Stefania De Pascale is a professor at The University of Naples, Italy, whose expertise is on plant water relations, water and nutrients management in field and greenhouse productions, greenhouse production systems and soilless cultivations, sustainability of protected cultivation. Recent research activities include physiological aspects of plant abiotic stresses adaptation and the effects of Space environment on plant growth and development. She is author of over 150 papers. She has received research funds through competitive grant programs by the Ministry of University and Research, the National Research Council and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. She has been the coordinator of Italian Space Agency (ASI) projects aimed at improving our understanding on the effects of micro-g on some aspects of plant growth and development. She was also partner of a project for the design of a Space greenhouse and she is currently involved in an ASI project aimed at defining best technologies to integrate higher plants for food and oxygen production, CO2 regeneration and water purification in a Bioregenerative Life Support System. Dr. Pascale is an active member of the Italian Horticultural Society, the Italian Society of Agronomy, the International Society of Horticultural Science and the American Society of Horticultural Science. She has taken part in many national and international congresses also as invited speaker; she is reviewer and co-editor for Italian and international journals. Dr. Pascale will give an invited keynote lecture on "Plant Response to Environmental Stresses - Plant Stress Management in Semiarid Greenhouse".


 
Nicholas Castilla
CIDA, Granada, Spain

Presentation Title:  "Greenhouse Design, Environmental Control and Systems - Environmental Control Techniques in Mediterranean Greenhouse".

Dr. Nicolas Castilla is a coordinator of research in the IFAPA (Institute for Agricultural Research in the Andalusia region, south of Spain). Currently, he is the head of the Horticulture Department in the Agricultural Research and Development Centre (CIFA) in Granada. He is involved in R&D activities in protected (greenhouses) and semiprotected horticulture (vegetable crops). Leader of the research group on horticulture (PAI, Andalusian Research Plan) in the Almeria and Granada provinces (eastern Andalusia region). He is an European Union and FAO expert in protected cultivation. He has been president of the Spanish (CEPLA) and International Committees for Plastics in Agriculture (CIPA). He has directed various horticulture technical journals, diverse PhD studies and numerous R&D projects on protected cultivation. He is associate editor and reviewer of several Spanish and international scientific journals. Author of many scientific and technical papers, and book chapters on protected horticulture, he recently (2005) published a book in Spanish on "Plastic Greenhouses: Technology and Management" (Invernaderos de Plastico: Tecnologia y manejo). Dr. Castilla has been convener, member of the Organizing and Scientific Committees and key speaker of diverse scientific and technical Congresses and Symposia. He is active member, among others, of the International (ISHS), American (ASHS) and Spanish Societies for Horticultural Sciences (SECH) and Honorary Horticulturist of the APH (Portuguese Society of Horticulture). At present is chairman of the Protected Cultivation Commission of the ISHS (International Society for Horticultural Science). Dr. Castilla will give an invited keynote lecture on "Greenhouse Design, Environmental Control and Systems - Environmental Control Techniques in Mediterranean Greenhouse".



Guy A. Cardineau
Arizona State University, Arizona, U.S.A.,

Presentation Title: "Special application of Greenhouse - Plant-Based Biopharmaceutical Production".

Dr. Guy A. Cardineau is a professor at Arizona State University with appointments in the Biodesign Institute, the School of Life Sciences and the College of Law, whose expertise is plant biotechnology and its application in developing plant based biopharmaceuticals. Dr. Cardineau began his career in the field of Agricultural Biotechnology in 1983 as a Scientist at a small start-up company, Sungene Technologies, where he also served a short time as Manager of Market Development. He moved to Agrigenetics in 1989 as Manager and then Director of Molecular Biology. In 1993 Agrigenetics was acquired by Mycogen Corporation and Dr. Cardineau assumed responsibility as Director for the merged Molecular Biology groups and eventually for Biochemistry as well. In 1996 he became Director, Technology Development, involved in strategic planning and implementation regarding Intellectual Property and the identification, evaluation and acquisition of technology directed toward future product development. Dow AgroSciences acquired Mycogen in 1998 and Dr. Cardineau returned to research assuming the positions of Global Leader R&D, Output Agriculture Gene Discovery and Site Leader for the San Diego, CA, Research Facility. In 2002 he became Global Leader for Science and Technology with responsibilities involved in strategic research planning. His efforts, collectively with members of his research team, have resulted in several agricultural biotechnology products in the market place and in commercial development, including Herculex Insect Resistant Corn, Widestrike Cotton and the first plant made pharmaceutical approved and licensed by a regulatory authority any place in the world, a Newcastle Disease Virus subunit vaccine produced in tobacco cell culture. He left DAS in the fall of 2002 and in January 2003 became a Research Professor at Arizona State University with appointments in the Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology of the Biodesign Institute, the School of Life Sciences and the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. His academic credentials include an A.B. in American Civilization, a B.S. in Microbiology and a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology. He has co-authored numerous scientific papers and has been included in a number of Who's Who listings as well as Men and Women of Science. He served on the Science Advisory Board for the County of San Diego, CA, and currently serves on the Advisory Boards of ASU Technopolis and The Technology Ventures Clinic at AzTE, is an advisor and consultant to the start-up biotechnology companies ERAbiotech, iDiverse and Algal Technologies, is member of the Flinn Foundation BioAgriculture Research/Technology Platform Committee for Arizona and serves the US Secretary of Agriculture as a member of the Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture. He is an inventor of 20 issued and 9 published pending US patent applications in the plant sciences, with over 50 patents world wide, including broad enabling patents describing the earliest production of vaccines in transgenic plants and the synthesis of genes to improve their expression in a foreign host. Dr. Cardineau will give an invited keynote lecture on "Special application of Greenhouse - Plant-Based Biopharmaceutical Production".

 
Sadanori Sase
National Institute for Rural Engineering, Tsukuba, Japan

Presentation Title: "Greenhouse Energy and Resource Use - Cooling in Semiarid Greenhouses".

Dr. Sadanori Sase is an agricultural engineer. He received Ph.D. from University of Tokyo and M.S. from Chiba University. As Head of Controlled Environment Agriculture Team at National Institute for Rural Engineering, he is involved in research in the area of structures and environment of agricultural structures. Particularly, he has been intensively working on natural ventilation control and air movement in greenhouses using wind tunnel and CFD techniques. He is the author of more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles. He has contributed to various international/domestic meetings as a member of organizing committees as well as an invited speaker. He has been the Chair of ISHS Commission Horticultural Engineering since 2006, preceded by the acting Chair for about two years. He has been a member of ASABE, the Society of Agricultural Structures, Japan, the Society of Agricultural Meteorology of Japan, and the Japanese Society of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Engineers and Scientists.

Additional Program Information:

Workshop Warm-up Tour
visit Biosphere II and Phoenix Mars Mission Operation Center
Monday, October 20, 2008

                  Biosphere II                                    Phoenix Mars Mission

A not to be missed pre-workshop tour of Biosphere II and the Phoenix Mars Mission Operation Center in Tucson. The day begins at Biosphere II. A private guide will lead you through the various ecosystems and habitats housed under the 204,000 cubic meter (7,200,000 cubic feet) of sealed glass at the 1.3 hectare (3.14 acre) facility. For more information about Biosphere II click here. After lunch we will visit the Phoenix Mars Mission Operation Center on the University of Arizona Campus.  The Phoenix Mars Mission has a collaborative approach to space exploration. As the very first of NASA's Mars Scout class, Phoenix combines legacy and innovation in a framework of a true partnership: government, academia, and industry. Scout class missions are led by a scientist, known as a Principal Investigator (PI). Peter Smith of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory serves as Phoenix's PI and is responsible for all aspects of the mission. The Phoenix Mission has a three-vertebrate backbone: the PI is the University of Arizona, the project manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and the flight system manager at Lockheed Martin Space Systems (LMSS). For more information about the tour click here.

Cost: $98 per person, minimum required attendance 12 participants. Includes, transportation, lunch and tours. Registration for this tour closes on September 5, 2008 17:00  PST. Visit the registration link to register for this tour.

Controlled Environment and EuroFresh Tour
Friday, October 24, 2008

    Controlled Environment Agriculture Center                         EuroFresh Greenhouse

On this tour you will visit the University of Arizona Controlled Environment Agriculture Center (CEAC), Tucson, Arizona (www.ag.arizona.edu/ceac), established in 2000 to develop Controlled Environment Agriculture as an economically, environmentally and socially sustainable agricultural option. The CEAC facilities, including advanced technology greenhouses, offer an environment friendly to crop growth, hydroponics and plant research in a controlled environment.
Our other stop is EuroFresh Farms (www.eurofresh.com), North America's largest hydroponic greenhouse vegetable production (265 acres under glass), located in Wilcox, Arizona, where the high level of sunlight and abundant supply of high quality water are available. EuroFresh Farms is a leader in the greenhouse industry that produces a consistent, high volume supply of premium pesticide-free tomatoes throughout the year using the state-of-the-art controlled environment production facilities. In 2004, Eurofresh Farms produced over 100 million pounds of tomatoes, representing a large share of the U.S. greenhouse tomato market.

EuroFresh tour participation contingent on security clearance.

This is an all day tour departing the workshop hotel at 8:30am and returning by 5:00pm. Registration is $95 US and covers transportation, lunch and guides. Visit the registration link to register for this tour.


Post-Conference Tour
Mexico Greenhouses
Saturday, October 25 and Sunday, October 26, 2008

  Hermosillo, Sonora - Mexico

Tour two large, modern, hydroponic vegetable operations in Sonora, Mexico, experience the best the State of Sonora has to offer and participate in social professional networking opportunities with workshop attendees and our Mexico hosts. The tour will depart early Saturday morning for Mexico. You will visit a greenhouse operation after which you will experience an authentic Mexican dinner fiesta. Overnight accommodations provided in Hermosillo. After breakfast on Sunday morning you will depart for a tour of another greenhouse operation. After the tour you will return to Nogales, Mexico for an afternoon of shopping and exploring. Expected arrival in Tucson at approximately 7:00pm.

Important information: Attendees will have to arrange for Visas to enter Mexico. After signing up, you will be asked to provide information to be shared with the transportation company for faster processing at the US/Mexico border. Since the tour is arriving back in Tucson at approximately 7pm on Sunday, October 26 guests may have to secure overnight accommodations to catch early morning flights the following day. Information about drop-off and overnight accommodations provided on the registration page shortly.

Cost: $349 per person, minimum attendance of 20 participants required. Includes transportation, Saturday lunch and dinner, Sunday breakfast, tours and refreshments and hotel in Hermosillo. Registration for this tour closes on September 5, 2008  17:00 PST. Visit the registration link to register for this tour.

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