KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

 

	Name	Title	Department	Institute	Country/Region
	Prof. Christine Foyer	Professor of Plant Science	School of Biosciences	University of Birmingham	UK
	Prof. Peter Gresshoff	Emeritus Professor	School of Agriculture and Food Sciences	University of Queensland	Australia
	Dr. Scott Jackson	Bayer Crop Science	Genetic Pipeline Lead		US
	Prof. Hon-Ming Lam	Professor	School of Life Sciences	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
	Prof. Budiman Minasny	Professor in Soil-Landscape Modelling	School of Life and Environmental Sciences	The University of Sydney	Australia
	Prof. Henry Nguyen	Professor of Plant Sciences, Division of Plant Sciences	College of Agriculture	University of Missouri	US
	Prof. Kadambot Siddique	Professor of Agriculture Chair and Director	Institute of Agriculture	The University of Western Australia	Australia
	Prof. Rajeev Varshney	Professor		Murdoch University	Australia
	Prof. Fanjiang Kong	Professor	School of Life Sciences	Guangzhou University	China

THEMETIC TALK SPEAKERS

 

	Name	Title	Department	Institute	Country/Region
	Prof. Samuel Adjei-Nsiah	Associate Professor	School of Agriculture	University of Ghana	Ghana
	Dr. Coty Carrera	Adjunct Researcher		National Agricultural Technology Institute	Argentina
	Prof. Ting Fung Chan	Professor	School of Life Sciences	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
	Prof. Mark Chapman	Dr and Associate Professor in Ecology and Evolution	Biological Sciences	University of Southampton	UK
	Prof. Yinglong Chen	Professor	School of Agriculture and Environment, & UWA Institute of Agriculture	The University of Western Australia	Australia
	Prof. Xin Dawei	Professor		Northeast Agricultural University	China
	Dr. Sergio Enrique Feingold	National Coordinator of  INTA Biotechnology Program		Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria	Argentina
	Prof. Brett Ferguson	Associate Professor	Centre for Crop Science	Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation	Australia
	Prof. Eric Giraud	Professor		Laboratoire des Symbioses Tropicales et Méditerranéennes (LSTM), IRD, Institut Agro, INRAE, Université de Montpellier, and CIRAD, Montpellier, France	France
	Prof. Tianfu Han	Professor		Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences	China
	Prof. Ho Lam Jerome Hui	Professor	School of Life Sciences	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
	Dr. Sachiko Isobe	Head	Plant Genome Research	Bio-Analytic Systems Development Team, Kazusa DNA Research Institute	Japan
	Prof. Zhenpeng Kai	Associate Professor	School of Chemical and Environment Engineering	Shanghai Institute of Technology	China
	Prof. Weibo Xie	Professor	National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory	Huazhong Agricultural University	China
	Prof. Maurice S. B. Ku	Emeritus Professor	Department of BioAgricultural Science	National Chiayi University	Taiwan
	Prof. Jeong-Dong Lee	Associate Professor	School of Applied Biosciences	Kyungpook National University	South Korea
	Prof. Pan Liao	Assistant Professor	Department of Biology	Hong Kong Baptist University	Hong Kong
	Prof. Ndiko Ludidi	Professor	Department of Biotechnology	Unviersity of Western Cape	SA
	Prof. Haiwei Luo	Professor	School of Life Sciences	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
	Prof. Prakit Somta	Professor		Kasetsart University	Thailand
	Prof. Yanjun Su	Professor		Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences	China
	Prof. Wing Tak Jack Wong	Professor	School of Life Sciences	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
	Prof. Jin Wu	Assistant Professor	School of Biological Sciences	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
	Prof. Silin Zhong	Professor	School of Life Sciences	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
	Dr. Asnake Fikre	Doctor of Philosophy	Department of Crop Science	Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research	Ethiopia