Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ronnie Green

Date/Location
Nebraska Student Union - City Campus
May 14-17, 2017
Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.

Important Dates
Submission of full papers:
February, 2017

Notification of acceptance:
April 10, 2017

Final Manuscript in PDF form:
April 15, 2017

Author registration deadline:
April 15, 2017


Monday, May 15, 2017


Dr. Ronnie Green
Dr. Ronnie Green
Chancellor of University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Abstract

Prior to being named chancellor, Green served for six years as the Harlan Vice Chancellor of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources. In this role, he also jointly served as the Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources of the University of Nebraska system. Since 2015, Green also was UNL’s Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, the institution’s chief academic officer and responsible authority in the absence of the chancellor.

Green was raised on a mixed beef, dairy, and cropping farm in southwestern Virginia. He received bachelor and master’s degrees in animal science from Virginia Tech and Colorado State University, respectively. His doctoral program was completed jointly at the University of Nebraska and the USDA-ARS U.S. Meat Animal Research Center in animal breeding and genetics in 1988.

Green has served on the animal science faculties of Texas Tech University and Colorado State University, and as the national program leader for animal production research for the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service and executive secretary of the White House’s interagency working group on animal genomics within the National Science and Technology Council where he was one of the principal leaders in the international bovine, porcine, and ovine genome sequencing projects. Prior to returning to NU, Green served as senior global director of technical services for Pfizer Animal Health’s animal genomics business.