March 10-12, 2010: Dr. Mian was invited to present a keynote speech titled “Food-type Soybean for Bangladesh: Prospects and Challenges” at the Second Soybean Workshop to be hosted by Bangladesh Soybean Association in Dhaka, Bangladesh   

February 22-23, 2010: Dr. Mian presented an invited talk titled “Genetic Resistance of Soybean to Frogeye Leaf Spot, Mapping of Rcs3 Gene, and Breeding for Resistance” at the annual Soybean Breeders’ Workshop in St. Louis, MO

December 12-13, 2009: Dr. Mian presented an invited talk titled “Developing Soybean Lines with Beetle Resistance” at the annual meetings of the Entomological Society of America in Indianapolis, IN

October 1-2, 2009: Dr. Mian presented an invited talk titled “Marker Assisted Breeding and Improvement of Pest Resistance and Seed Protein of Soybean in Ohio” at the North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

August 16-17, 2009: Dr. Mian was invited to visit the “Soybean Research Institute, Northeastern Agricultural University” in Harbin, China and presented a talk titled “Marker assisted breeding for pest resistant soybeans”.

August 10-15, 2009: Dr. Mian Chaired a session on soybean aphid research and present an invited talk titled “Characterization of aphid resistant soybean lines, development of resistant cultivars, and soybean aphid biotypes in USA” at the World Soybean Conference – VIII,  held in Bejing, China.

April 13-18, 2008: Dr. Mian was invited to make a presentation titled “Identification of Sources of Soybean Aphid Resistance and Mapping of a Dominant Gene” in the 5^th International Crop Science Congress held in ICC Jeju, Korea.

April 09-12, 2008: Dr. Mian was invited to visit the “National Institute of Crop Science” of RDA in Suwon, Korea to discuss possible research collaborations and to present an invited seminar on “Marker assisted breeding for genetic improvement of soybean”.

March 20-21, 2008: Dr. Rouf Mian was invited to participate in the “Soybean Aphid Summit” of the Monsanto Company where he presented an invited talk on “Genetic characterization of the soybean aphid resistance gene in PI 243540 and development of aphid resistant soybean gemplasm”.