The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR), with support of Presidential success funding, will host its first of two Research and Innovation Roundtables (RIR) for the 2025-26 academic year on Thursday, November 6, 2025. This roundtable will be a virtual format and will foster collaboration and ideation around the overarching topic Building Biosecurity: Protecting Plants from Pests and Pathogens.
The fall RIR is a complement and extension, of sorts, of the session held during the 2025 spring semester: From Risk to Resilience: Combatting Endemic and Zoonotic Microbial Threats. Participating researchers from Iowa State will once again be presented with an opportunity to brainstorm big ideas and establish collaborations with colleagues from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). CSIRO is an agency of the Australian government that works with leading organizations around the world to support scientific research and its commercial and industrial applications.