Dear Friends,
The UCF Materials Innovation for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA) Center is organizing the Eighth Annual MISA Symposium on October 23 – 24, 2025. It is our great pleasure to invite you and your team members to attend the symposium.
This year the MISA symposium will be held in-person. There is no registration fee to attend the symposium. However, to secure your spot, please register online by clicking the registration weblink below.
Additional symposium information will be available on the symposium website.
Every year, MISA brings together multidisciplinary stakeholders including scientists, industry folks, regulatory agencies, and growers. This provides a unique opportunity for our students, postdocs/research scientists and faculty members to learn about emerging agricultural issues and understand the importance of addressing these issues. This meeting has been instrumental for many young scientists to explore creative research ideas, and develop out-of-the-box innovative materials and novel tools to support agricultural sustainability with special emphasis on crop protection.
We look forward to meeting with you soon.
Sincerely,
The MISA 2025 Organizing Committee
Keynote Speakers 2025
Ariel Singerman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor – Food and Resource Economics Department
Citrus Research and Education Center
Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
University of Florida
Lake Alfred, Florida
Keynote address: The Economics of Management Strategies to Deal with Citrus Greening Disease in Florida
Leticia Scopel Camargo, Ph.D.
Regulatory Science
Ecotoxicology & Environmental Risk Assessment for Latin America
BASF S.A.
San Paulo, Brazil
Keynote address: Environmental Risk Assessment of Pesticides in Latin America: Current Approaches and Regulatory Perspectives