Dr. James DeDecker, PhD, Hemp Agronomy and Variety Performance in the Midwest US, Hosted by The ICR Hemp Farmers Association

April 2023

Dr. James DeDecker is Director of the Michigan State University Upper Peninsula Research and Extension Center in Chatham, Michigan and a Specialist in the MSU Extension Community, Food and Environment Institute. James has led hemp research at MSU since 2019 with a focus on agronomy, variety performance, and integrated pest management for all hemp products. Together with university collaborators and growers from Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana, James facilitates the Midwest Hemp Research Collaborative, which is currently focused on launching a new participatory research project supported by USDA-NIFA. James also serves as the Michigan representative for the multi-state S-1084 Hatch project focused on collaborative hemp research efforts across the US.

Previous Webinars

Devan Kansagara, MD., MCR.

June 12th 1:00 PM MST

Systematically Testing the Evidence on Marijuana (STEM): Bridging the Science of Cannabis Health Effects and Clinical Practice

Devan Kansagara MD, MCR is a Professor of Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University. He practices and teaches primary care and hospital-based internal medicine in the VA Portland Health Care System. His work in […]

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Nolan Kane, PhD.

May 21, 2025 11:00 AM Mountain Time

Genetics, chemistry and the evolution of sex chromosomes in Cannabis

Dr. Nolan Kane is an associate professor in the ebio department at the university of Colorado, boulder. he uses genomic approaches to study adaptation to new environments, domestication of wild plants into valuable crops, and the formation of new species. his […]

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Dan Covey, PhD.

May 8, 2025, 1:00 PM

Effects of isolated cannabinoids and endocannabinoids on emotional behavior in rodents

Dr. Covey is currently an Assistant Professor at Lovelace Biomedical Research Institute (LBRI) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He started this position in June 2020 after completing his PhD at Illinois State University and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Maryland […]

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Andrew Kesner, PhD

Preclinical modeling of spontaneous Δ-9-THC withdrawal symptoms in mice: sleep, dopamine, and behavioral maladaptations

April 10th, 1:00PM MST

Dr. Kesner is the Chief of the Unit on Motivation and Arousal at National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). The mission of his lab is to use systems neuroscience approaches to understand how brain systems controlling motivated […]

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Roberta Paris, PhD.

Genetic, molecular and biochemical studies on the accumulation of bioactive compounds in Cannabis sativa L.

19 March, 2025, 11:00 AM  

Dr. Roberta Paris studied at the Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, where she obtained the PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology in 2006. She is a permanent researcher at Council for Agricultural Research and Economic, Research […]

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Sarah D. Lichenstein, PhD.

Neural mechanisms of risk for problem-level cannabis use among emerging adults

Dr. Lichenstein is a licensed clinical psychologist, an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, and Assistant Director of the Yale Imaging and Psychopharmacology Lab at Yale School of Medicine. She received her BA in Psychology from Bard College (2008), and her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the […]

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