6th Global Summit on Plant Science October 29-30, 2018 Valencia, Spain

Main Research Field : Biology

Related Research Fields :Environmental science / Agricultural sciences

Dr. Charles Powell is an Emeritus Professor at the UF/IFAS Indian River Research and Education Center. Retiring in 2016, Dr. Powell maintains a presence at IRREC with his research interests. Upon his retirement, he had served as a research professor, and as an associate director.

Current research is focused on control of HLB, or citrus greening. Recent research has involved work with efficacy and infertility of Madeira mealybug on plants prepared for shipping.

Honored Scientist of RF, Member-correspondent of Academy of Natural Science of Russia.Education in Chemistry: Ural State, Dr.'s Degree in Chemistry in Ural State University, Dr. Sc. Degree in Chemistry in Moscow State University, Professor in Chemistry. From 1968 till now she works for Ural State Economic University in Yekaterinburg (RF).

Her research interests are: Electrochemical sensors, Stripping Voltammetry, Environmental Monitoring, Nanostructured materials Electrochemical Characterization, Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Activity investigations. She published in Russian and International Journals more than 500 papers and abstracts and 5 books in Stripping Analysis in "Chemistry" Moscow (three of them in 1972, 1982, 1988) and by "Willey & Sons", USA (two of them in 1974 and 1993). She has 15 Russian Patents

Greeson has traveled extensively internationally, exploring remote regions, collecting specimens and teaming with researchers in efforts to discover novel compounds. Specimen collections have come from some of the most bio-diverse regions of Planet Earth and from areas which often have no documentation of the flora or fauna, or the medicinal use of plants.Significant research findings to date have been in the areas of cancer, inflammation and pain, the natural activation of stem cells, skin care and malaria.

A graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, she presently serves as an Alumni Board Member of the UNCCH Eshelman School of Pharmacy. As an integrative pharmacist, Greeson's work in remote bio diverse countries with indigenous people, searching for novel medical treatments, has attracted interviews with NPR on several occasions, Australian Public Radio, and numerous articles and other press. Her book, And The Silent Spoke, will be released in 2018, while Expedition Congo, a documentary based on the 2016 expedition to the Congo, is slated to debut in early 2018.

Elena Ermilova is a full professor and head of laboratory at Saint-Petersburg State University. She has her expertise in nitrogen metabolism and PII signal transduction in green and red algae, and land plants. Prof. E. Ermilova also has extensively studied the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and identified new functions associated with stress acclimation. She also studies the regulation of sulfur metabolism.

nitrogen metabolism and PII signal transduction in green and red algae, and land plants

His main research interest is the development and application of interactomics technology in Plant Research to study the regulation of plant growth at the molecular and biochemical level. De Jaeger’s research team obtained high international visibility with their state of the art AP-MS platform that maps protein interaction networks in plants. In the passed 5 years this technology generated data for 42 TIER 25% manuscripts, holding 12 TIER 1%, and 33 TIER 5% manuscripts. He currently authored 82 A1 publications with more than 3200 life time citations, a H-index of 33, and he holds 7 patents.

Plant Research to study the regulation of plant growth

Kellye Eversole is President of Eversole Associates, a science and technology consulting firm, located in Bethesda, Maryland. She received a B.A. with distinction and special honors in Political Science from The George Washington University in 1983 and pursued Masters Studies in political philosophy at Georgetown University. After working in the US Senate on agricultural, environmental, trade, and budget issues for 10 years and serving 2 years as the head of a Federal study commission, she established Eversole Associates. Since its inception in 1991, Eversole Associates has specialized in U.S. and international science and technology and agricultural, environmental, and economic development issues and projects. Ms. Eversole assists companies and industries in establishing long-term strategic visions and designs and implements methods for accomplishing the visions. She has extensive experience in agricultural genomics and biotechnology. Eversole has led several U.S. and international animal, plant, and microbial genome sequencing projects. Most recently, Eversole helped to develop the sequencing strategy for the swine genome sequencing project and, currently, is leading the development of a strategy to sequence extremely large, complex, polyploidy species, such as the bread wheat genome. Eversole, a long-time advocate for agricultural biotechnology as a mechanism for enabling agricultural prosperity, serves as the Executive Director of the Specialty Crop Regulatory Assistance initiative. Eversole has been involved actively in various aspects of the agricultural industry that began as a child growing up on a wheat, cotton, and cattle farm in southwestern Oklahoma.

Executive Director of the Specialty Crop Regulatory Assistance initiative.

André Luis de Alcantara Guimarães has completed his Ph.D. in Botany from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and postdoctoral studies at the Faculty of Pharmacy from UFRJ. He is an associate professor of Faculty of Pharmacy from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He has published papers in reputed journals of Plant Science, especially with galls and their metabolical changes on host plants, and research with medicinal plants.

Medicinal Plants

Caroline Janitz is the manager of the Next-Generation Sequencing Facility at Western Sydney University, Australia. Along with supervising her team, Caroline is responsible for both the development and implementation of technological improvements in the NGS pipeline. Caroline acquired her PhD in molecular genetics from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, under the supervision of Prof. Hans Lehrach, the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin. Her PhD thesis focused on an investigation of the molecular mechanism of renal damage in the course of rat hypertension using laser microdissection and Affymetrix gene expression profiling.

Molecular Genetics, Geneexpression

Synan AbuQamar completed his Ph.D from Purdue University/Department of Botany & Plant Pathology in 2007 and his postdoctoral studies from the same university in the area of Molecular Genetics of Plant Immunity. In August 2008, Dr. AbuQamar joined the Department of Biology at the United Arab Emirates University as an Assistant Professor. Currently, he is an Associate Professor. Dr. AbuQamar's current research interest is in the area of Plant Molecular Genetics/Plant Biotechnology. He has co-authored a number of publications in peer-reviewed international journals and serves as an editorial board member in reputed journals.

Plant Pathology, Plant Molecular Genetics,Plant Biotechnology