Jochen Kumlehn
Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, Germany
Title: “Targeted genome modification in cereals using Cas endonuclease technology”
Kuldeep Singh
ICAR – National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, India
Title: “Plant Genetic Resources in India: Management and Utilization”
Jadwiga Śliwka
Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute – National Research Institute, Młochów Research Centre, Poland
Title: “Application of genetic resources and markers in breeding of potato resistant to late blight”
Yerlan Turuspekov
Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Almaty, Kazakhstan,
Title: “Marker-trait associations for agronomic traits in soybean harvested in Kazakhstan”
Lee Hickey
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland,
Brisbane, Australia
Title: “Speed breeding to accelerate crop research and breeding”
Konstantin V. Krutovsky
Department of Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding, Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany
Title: “Postgenomic technologies in practical forestry: development of DNA markers and population genetic databases for timber origin identification, genetic monitoring, breeding and other applications”
Deepmala Sehgal
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico;
Title: “Genome-wide association and epistatic scan for unravelling the genetic architecture of complex traits and their practical applications in a breeding program”
Jaroslav Dolezel
Institute of Experimental Botany,Olomouc, Czech Republic
Title: “Chromosome genomics supports sequencing complex genomes and cloning their genes”
Rajeev Varshney
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
(ICRISAT), Greater Hyderabad, India
Title: “Transational genomics for accelerating genetic gains in legumes”
