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Seed
Central services
COMMUNICATION
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Seed Central FORUM
Networking events with featured speakers
(monthy, 2nd Thursday of the month)
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Seed Central SCIENCE
Research & technology presentations (2nd
Thursday of February, May and September)
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Seed Central BRAINSTORMING
Brainstorming sessions on local solutions to
shared needs (2nd Thursday of February, May
and September)
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Seed Central PICNICS
An opportunity for UC Davis students to meet
seed company researchers over a simple picnic.
Everyone brings his/her own lunch and gets a
chance to talk very concretely and in a
completely informal setting about research
careers in the seed industry.
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Seed Central GUIDANCE
The Seed Central team arranges topical
meetings on campus for its members. Whether you
are looking to meet a specialist in a specific
area of science or would like you human
resources team to better understand how to tap
into the UC Davis talent pipeline,
contact us and we will
make the necessary arrangements.
FACILITATION
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 Facilitation of sponsored
research
The Plant and Seed Sciences Partnership
Program (PSPP) is coordinated by the
Seed Biotechnology Center (SBC) within the
College of Agricultural and Environmental
Sciences at the University of California, Davis
(UC Davis).
The PSPP is a Corporate Affiliate Partnership Program
(CAPP) designed to facilitate interaction
between UC Davis and Seed Central and its
members.
The
PSPP offers three tiers of participation
customized to the research and educational
objectives of Seed Central and its members:
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Tier 1 offers Seed Central and its
members a mechanism to collaborate with UC Davis
to create and deliver educational opportunities
and networking activities focused on issues
relevant to the seed industry.
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Tier 2 provides a mechanism for creating
corporate consortia to sponsor and conduct
collaborative research following scope of work
collectively agreed upon by the participating
members and the University, which may accelerate
commercialization of new discoveries.
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Tier 3 allows Seed Central and each of
its members to take advantage of the PSPP
corporate relations services to facilitate
individual sponsored research agreements, fund
projects specific to their respective interests
and speed technology transfer.
The
Plant and Seed Sciences Partnership Program has
received final UC Davis approval on October 8th,
2012.
View the
The Plant and Seed Sciences Partnership Program
(PSPP).
- ASTA CPPSI
project
The Initiative to Standardize
Identification of Plant Pathogen Strains and
Races using Differential Hosts.
An ASTA CPPSI
project (formerly APS/ISF project)
Background information:
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Differential host sets, short summary
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An integrated virtual network
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January 2013 presentation of the project
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April 2012 presentation of the project
- Facilitation of IP & tech
transfer
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Plant & Seed Collaborative
Research (CoRe) Laboratory project with industry partners
 Attracted by UC Davis' leadership position in
plant and agricultural sciences, several
companies have expressed an interest in the
creation on the Davis campus of a collaborative research lab
with industry partners where
UC Davis scientists and students, joined by
industry scientists, would conduct pre-competitive research
to
translate genomic knowledge into useful
phenotypes.
Among
the interested industry partners are large,
medium and small seed companies, involved in a
broad range of horticultural and agronomic
crops. Other interested partners are active in
genomics, breeding technologies, seed
technology, and contract research services.
This project is strongly supported by the
leadership of
UC Davis and the College of Agriculture &
Environmental Sciences.
The diagrams of the CoRe Lab show:
- the project's ambition to attract a wide
variety of companies in order to foster a
dynamic and stimulating environment with rich
networking opportunities; and
- the campus' strong and diverse scientific and
technological environment relevant to the
research focus of the planned lab.
This project has been discussed over the last 12
months with some 30 companies in California, the
US and overseas, both in one-on-one meetings and
at two public brainstorming sessions.
Considerable feedback has been obtained.
In May 2012, the CoRe Lab Task Force has
developed a detailed survey to obtain a deeper
and detailed understanding of the needs and
expectations of industry partners interested in
the project.
The survey can be viewed and completed by
clicking HERE.
All companies interested in being associated
with this project, short, medium or long term,
physically or remotely, are invited to
complete the survey.
For questions about the survey, please contact:
- Kent Bradford at
kjbradford@ucdavis.edu or
- Francois Korn at
fkorn@seedcentral.org.
- Bringing science to market faster
The ambition of Seed Central is to create
contribute to bridging the gap between UC Davis
science and the marketplace through various
communication and facilitation features that
will "bring science to market faster" for the
benefit of all parties.
View diagram
- The ScienceFinder
There is an enormous amount of science and
technology at UC Davis, but the instruments to
find the science or technology you need (see on
the RESOURCES page on this website) are not as
efficient and fast as they could. We are working
with the UC Davis Office of Research to improve
these instruments. In May 2013, the
Brainstorming Session will focus on this issue.
ATTRACTION
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Attraction of new seed and seed-related
companies to the Seed Central region.
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Facilitation services, in cooperation with local
city and county governments.
As of spring 2012, two companies have indicated
that they will establish their headquarter in
Davis
in connection with the planned CoRe lab.
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