Plant Science

Dr. Habib Ahmad is presently working as the Vice Chancellor of the historic Islamia College, Peshawar, Pakistan. He is Tenured Professor of Genetics. He has received various awards in recognition of his scientific research and achievements. He has got the coveted honor of being a resource person and an inspirational speaker at many national and international universities. He is the author of more than 300 hundred research papers. Along with his exceptional contributions to Genetics,

Prof Habib has emerged as an authority on biodiversity and molecular anthropology of Hindu Kush Himalayas of Pakistan

Gamética Embryogenesis Biology Group and Applications

Genetics, genomics, biotechnology and crop improvement

Genetic Group and Development of Plant Materials

Genetics and development of plant materials

Dr. Russel J. Reiter, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Cellular and Structure Biology at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA, Dr. Reiter has received three honorary M.D. degrees and one honorary D.Sc. degree. He has received numerous awards for his research including the A. Ross McIntyre Gold Metal (USA), the US Senior Scientist Award (Germany), Lizoni Lincee Award (Italy), the Inaugural Aaron B. Lerner Pioneer Award (FASEB, USA), etc. His scientific publications have been cited in the scientific literature more than 83,000 times; his h-index is 140. Thomson’s Institute lists Dr. Reiter as one of the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds-2014 and he is listed in the top 100 scientists in the world in terms of frequency of citation in the fields of Cell Biology and Biochemistry. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pineal Research (2013 impact factor = 7.81) and is or has been on the Editorial/Advisory Board of 26 other journals.

Plant Physiology

Amy Greeson, RPh is CEO of Natural Discoveries, Inc., a drug discovery, research company. 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 UNC- CH 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 docu- mentary based on the 2016 expedition to the Congo, is slated to debut in early 2018.

Natural Discoveries, Inc., a drug discovery, research company

Dr. Grace Chen obtained her Ph.D from University of Wisconsin at Madison, and did her postdoctoral studies from University of California ̶ Plant Gene Expression Center. She has published more than 44 papers in reputed journals is globally recognized as an expert on oilseed biotechnology.

Plant Gene Expression

Synan F Abu Qamar has completed his PhD at Purdue University, Department of Botany & Plant Pathology in 2007 and Postdoctoral studies at the same university in the area of Molecular Genetics of Plant Immunity. In August 2008, he joined the Department of Biology at the United Arab Emirates University as an Assistant Professor. Currently, he is an Associate Professor. His 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. He is serving as an Editorial Board Member of reputed journals.

Botany & Plant Pathology

NASIR S. A. MALIK has 40 years of agricultural research experience, including 16 years in an industrial environment. He has written over 50 research articles, one patent, (publication list attached), numerous industrial reports, pesticide registration reports for EPA, intellectual property disclosures, and attracted $2 million in extramural funding from industrial clients and over $700K in competitive research grants as PI &Co-PI. He received numerous invitations for seminars, writing reviews, chapters to edit books.

plant molecular biology, plant-microbe interactions (bacterial & fungal), plant insect interactions, pesticide metabolism, pesticide formulations, isolation of bio-pesticides, grafting and propagation methods in fruit trees and vegetable crops, organic farming, and soil science

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.

Dr. Eloy Rodiguez is the James A. Perkins endowed chair in Environmental Studies and Chemical Biology at Cornell University in New York. He has published over 170 research articles on the chemistry, evolutionary biology and ecology of secondary metabolites and their medicinal and agricultural uses. He is a AAAS fellow, founding member of SACNAS and has lectured throughout the US, Europe, China and South America on the chemistry, physiological role and medicinal use of plant secondary metabolites. Dr. Rodriguez' research has been funded by NSF, NIH and private institutions.

Medicinal use of plant secondary metabolites and agricultural science

Eugenija Kupcinskiene has been working at Lithuanian University of Agriculture. Currently, she is working in the Department of Biology at Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania), delivering lectures in multiple courses. Her research experience is obtained by the training at East and West European universities. Research interests extend from ecosystems to Molecular biology, starting from enzymatic DNA methylation. Since 1976 she has been participating in the international scientific events. She is the Author of over two hundred publications. Her current research interests include Natural and Anthropogenic Stress, Oxidative Stress, Allelopathy, Climate Change, Heavy Metal Tolerance, Air Pollutants, Industrial Pollution, Bioindication, Plant Surfaces, Nutrition, Secondary Metabolites of Plants, Invasions, Populations, Plant Molecular Biology and Riparian vegetation

Agriculture

Geert De Jaeger is Associate Professor at Ghent University - Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, and Adjunct Director of the VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology (Ghent, Belgium). 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. His research team obtained high international visibility with their state of the art AP-MS platform that maps protein interaction networks in plants. In the past 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, H-index of 33, and he holds 7 patents.

Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics

Ryoung Shin, PhD is a Unit Leader and the Principal Investigator of Regulatory Network Research Unit, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science. She had worked on the molecular mechanisms of virus resistance in hot pepper and earned her PhD at Korea University in 2002. She moved to USA for her Postdoc Fellow and started to research on potassium sensing and signaling in plants at Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, USA. In 2008, she became the Unit Leader at RIKEN and continued to work on plant potassium deficiency signaling. Recently, her team expanded the research to radiocesium remediation after the accident at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in Japan following the great earthquake in 2011 caused the spread of radiocesium over the surrounding areas.

molecular mechanisms of virus resistance in hot pepper

Douglas Jose Marques, PhD in Agronomy - Soil Science/Plant Nutrition and Fertility at the Unifversidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil/UFLA (2013). I currently hold the position of Integral Professor at the Alfenas/FETA Foundation of Education and Technology, which is the maintainer of the Universidade José do Rosário Vellano/UNIFENAS, Coordinator of the Olericultura Studies Center, Horticulture and Experimentation Sector and Experimental Area of Organic Agriculture. Professor of the Professional Master's Degree in Production Systems in Agriculture and in the PhD course in Sustainable Agriculture. In the area of Ecophysiology and Fertility and Mineral Nutrition of Plants I have directed the studies to the beneficial effect of silicon as a source of water stress in maize and sorghum for arid and semi-arid regions. We are working with some extension projects in the creation and conduction of gardens: community, urban, schools, asylums and therapeutic and transformation of the same to the system of organic agriculture.

Agriculture

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

Youlu Yuan has been involved in studies related to cotton hybrid vigor and molecular marker assisted selection about fiber quality; focus on cotton variety molecular design, especially on excellent fiber quality variety development. Since 2013 he worked as a Director of Bio-technology Research Department and PI of cotton variety molecular design unit.

Bio-technology Research Department and PI of cotton variety molecular design unit

Wuwei Ye is a Professor and Deputy Director in Cotton Germplasm Research Department of Institute of Cotton Research at CAAS, China. He has been involved in studies related to cotton germplasm identification, innovation and biodiversity research for 30 years, focusing on resistant on cotton germplasm, such as salinity and drought-resistance. He is responsible for the coordination of identification and implementation of cotton germplasm identification center in China.

Cotton Research

Joseph Gale is a professor emeritus of the Hebrew U. of Jerusalem. His original interests were in Environmental Plant Physiology. After a period of research and consultation at NASA, USA, working on their Life Support in Space project, he turned to Astrobiology. Together with his astronomer colleague, Prof. Amri Wandel of the Racach Inst., HU., they have developed courses in Astrobiology for undergraduate students, with both science and humanities backgrounds. He has published more than one hundred refereed papers and has authored/co-authored and edited four books.

Environmental Plant Physiology

Levan Ujmajuridze has a PhD in Agrarian Sciences. He is an honored winemaker of Georgia; International expert; Member of Commission at The International Vine & Wine Organization OIV; National Focal Point of the Plant Genetic Resources at Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO. He has a basic expertise in agrodiversity restoration and conservation. He gives lectures at the leading Georgian Universities – Georgian Agrarian University, Technical University of Georgia. He has up to 47 scientific publications, 4 monographs, 1 invention and 2 patents – Georgian new wheat variety “Tbilisuri 15” and new oats variety “Argo”. Since 2014 he is a Director of LEPL Scientific-Research Center of Agriculture, Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia. The above article is a joint work with the Institute of Organic Chemistry, which concerns creation and use of new biological drug in bio vine growing.

Member of Commission at The International Vine & Wine Organization OIV; National Focal Point of the Plant Genetic Resources at Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO.

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

Main Research Field : Biology

Related Research Fields :Environmental science / Agricultural sciences

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

Dr. Grace Chen obtained her Ph.D from University of Wisconsin at Madison, and did her postdoctoral studies from University of California ̶ Plant Gene Expression Center. She has published more than 44 papers in reputed journals is globally recognized as an expert on oilseed biotechnology.

Plant Gene Expression

Nurul Faridi has completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge, England, UK, 1988 and worked at the International Rice Research Institute and Intl. Maize and Wheat Research Institute, Mexico from 1989 to 1994, and then worked in the Department of Soil & Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University until 2003 before joining with the USDA Forest Service. He has been working in conventional and molecular plant cytogenetics for the last 25 years and published about 70 papers in reputed journals.

Forest science

Leon Daniel van Rensburg is a soil physicist lecturing soil and water management at the University of the Free State, South Africa. He established and maintained a vibrate post-graduate research team, which currently consisted of 2 post-doctoral fellows, 4 doctoral students and 8 master students. The team focus mainly on soil and water management off dryland, irrigation as well as natural field and they published in the last 6 years about 45 scientific articles. He is leading two projects of national importance for South Africa, viz. (i) Management guidelines for technology transfer to reduce salinisation of irrigated land with precision agriculture funded by the Water Research Commission and (ii) the soil water balance of the Ghaap Platue as influenced by open cast mining funded by Sishen Iron Ore Company (Anglo American Kolomela). Both projects are scheduled for five years.

Agriculture Science

Petronia Carillo is an associate professor of plant physiology at the University of Campania, Italy. She has a strong theoretical and practical background in plant physiology, plant molecular biology, enzymology and metabolite profiling. Her research interests are centered on the interactions between nitrogen assimilation and carbon metabolism, and their short-term and long-term control mechanisms in photosynthetic organisms (unicellular algae and plants). At present, her main focus is the metabolite profiling of crop plants and plant model systems for the comprehension of the fundamental plant molecular and physiological responses to salinity, instrumental for developing new strategies to improve salt tolerance in agricultural crops. Since 2001, she collaborates with researchers of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany, for developing new high-throughput methods to measure enzyme activities and metabolites in plants. She is also interested in the valorization and reuse of agricultural residues in a bio-economy perspective

plant physiology, plant molecular biology, enzymology and metabolite profiling

Vanderlan da S. Bolzani is full professor at Sao Paulo State University (UNESP). Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), member of the Brazilian Academy of Science (ABC) and São Paulo Academy of Science (ACIESP) and TWAS, is CNPq Fellow level 1A, and has received several awards, highlighting: 2015 ABIQUIM Award on research innovation; 2014 CAPES-Elsevier Award for the contributions to science in Brazil, Distinguished Woman in Science Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, conceived by ACS & IUPAC (2011); Simão Mathias Medal, the highest honor conferred by Brazilian Chemical Society (2011). With Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, under guidance of Prof. Otto R. Gottlieb, at University of São Paulo, in 1990 she was awarded with a fellowship from DAAD for a short training at University of Hannover. After a post-doctorate at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPISU-USA) under guidance of Prof. David Kingston, she joined to the UNESP, and since 2003, is member of the Biota-FAPESP Program Coordination. Her field of interest is plant science, and has been involved in the isolation, bioactivity and function of secondary metabolites and peptides from plants, and recently has been involved on metabolomics and medicinal chemistry. Has published > 270 papers, 7 patents, and 5 book chapter (ih = 39). Since 2011 is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of L’Oréal in Paris.

bioactivity and function of secondary metabolites and peptides from 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

Taoufik Ksiksi is an Associate Professor (Plant Ecology) working at the UAE University. He deals with the impact of environmental factors/stresses on eco-physiological parameters of desert plants. Karthishwaran Kandhan is Post-Doctoral fellow at the UAEU. His expertise relates to the assessment of phytochemicals on plants species.

Plant Ecology

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

Nabil Killiny is Assistant Professor in the Department of Entomology and Nematology & Citrus Research and Education Center (CREC), Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences, University of Florida. The French Society of Phytopathology, awarded with student fellow travel Award, 2004 Synergistic Activities: Ad Hoc Manuscript Review: Plant Pathology, Phytopathology, Journal of Bacteriology, PLoS One, Journal of Insect Physiology, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions,Current Microbiology, Electron Microscope Techniques, Biomedicine and Biotechnology, European Journal of Plant Pathology

Plant Pathology, Phytopathology

A.A. Ivlev has completed his PhD at the age of 27 years from Chemical Technology University of D.I. Mendeleev. and got his 2-nd PhD from Institute of Chemical Physics of RAS. In 2005 he has discovered a link between carbon isotope distribution and temporal organization of cell processes and was awarded with medal “To Author of Scientific Discovery” by Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. Since 1995 he is Professor of Russian State Agrarian University of K,A. Timiryazev. He has published 66 papers in reputed journals and 4 monographs. The field of his scientific interests includes isotope fractionation in metabolism, photosynthesis, plant physiology, cell mechanisms, evolution, climatology.

plant physiology, cell mechanisms, evolution, climatology.

Dr. Molinari graduated with honor on March 28 1984 in Biology at Bari University, at the end of a one-year internship in Cell Biology, where he prepared an experimental thesis concerning Helium-Neon Laser effects on rat liver mitochondria. He worked as visiting scientist in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Imperial College of London, UK, and later on at University of California, Riverside, UCR, USA. Since 2001 he is a Senior Scientist at IPSP. His present research topics involve molecular mechanisms of genetic and induced plant resistance to pests and the characterization of plant immune system. More than 70 papers published on International Journals. H-index 12

Cell Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Professor in Horticulture,Plant Biotechnology, ornamental plants.

plant science, ornamental plants

Dr. Eng. Claudia Arcidiacono is an Associate Professor of the University of Catania, Italy, where she obtained her PhD in 1998. President of the MSc in ‘Safeguard of the Territory, Environment and Landscape’, Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Catania. She was Coordinator of the international PhD course in 'Agricultural Engineering' of the University of Catania and at present she is member of the board of the international PhD course ‘Agriculture, Food and Environmental Science’, University of Catania. She is author of more than 90 publications. She is fellow of CIGR, Eurageng, ISHS, and AIIA. Her research interests regard GIS analysis for rural land planning, analysis of biomass feedstock production, image classification and feature extraction for rural land planning, LCA analysis of biomass production processes

biomass, Landscape

Rajinder Singh is currently a Principal Research Officer at the Malaysian Palm Oil Board. Rajinder has been with the Malaysian Palm Oil Board for the last 19 years. He holds a PhD in Plant Genetics and is currently the Head of Genomics Unit of the Advanced Biotechnology & Breeding Centre, at the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB). Rajinder has authored and co-authored more than 32 refereed publications

Plant Genetics

Dr Milan S. Stankovic has received his PhD in University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Science, Republic of Serbia during the period of 2007-2012. Currently, he is working as assistant professor an the same University. His research has included Plant biology and ecology. He is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals like Plants, Advanced Crop Science, Research in Plant Science. He has authored 45 scientific papers published in international journals, 8 scientific papers published in national journals, 36 International conference proceedings and 46 national conference proceedings

Plant biology and ecology

Dr. Russel J. Reiter, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Cellular and Structure Biology at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA, Dr. Reiter has received three honorary M.D. degrees and one honorary D.Sc. degree. He has received numerous awards for his research including the A. Ross McIntyre Gold Metal (USA), the US Senior Scientist Award (Germany), Lizoni Lincee Award (Italy), the Inaugural Aaron B. Lerner Pioneer Award (FASEB, USA), etc. His scientific publications have been cited in the scientific literature more than 83,000 times; his h-index is 140. Thomson’s Institute lists Dr. Reiter as one of the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds-2014 and he is listed in the top 100 scientists in the world in terms of frequency of citation in the fields of Cell Biology and Biochemistry. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pineal Research (2013 impact factor = 7.81) and is or has been on the Editorial/Advisory Board of 26 other journals.

Plant Physiology

Dr. Eloy Rodiguez is the James A. Perkins endowed chair in Environmental Studies and Chemical Biology at Cornell University in New York. He has published over 170 research articles on the chemistry, evolutionary biology and ecology of secondary metabolites and their medicinal and agricultural uses. He is a AAAS fellow, founding member of SACNAS and has lectured throughout the US, Europe, China and South America on the chemistry, physiological role and medicinal use of plant secondary metabolites. Dr. Rodriguez' research has been funded by NSF, NIH and private institutions.

medicinal use of plant secondary metabolites and agricultural science

Nigel G. Halford obtained first degree in Genetics from the University of Liverpool in 1983 and a Masters degree in Applied Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from University College London in 1984. I studied the genes encoding a family of wheat seed proteins called the high molecular weight subunits of glutenin for my PhD while at Rothamsted in the 1980s, then spent 11 years at Long Ashton Research Station near Bristol before returning to Rothamsted in 2002. I am a Visiting Professor at Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences and was awarded The Magnolia Silver Award by the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government in 2012. I am also Special Professor at the University of Nottingham, Council Member and Programme Secretary for the Association of Applied Biologists, Fellow of the Society of Biology and former member of the UK’s Advisory Committee for Animal Feedingstuffs (ACAF).

metabolic and stress signalling pathways in plants

Nurul Faridi has completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge, England, UK, 1988 and worked at the International Rice Research Institute and Intl. Maize and Wheat Research Institute, Mexico from 1989 to 1994, and then worked in the Department of Soil & Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University until 2003 before joining with the USDA Forest Service. He has been working in conventional and molecular plant cytogenetics for the last 25 years and published about 70 papers in reputed journals

molecular plant cytogenetics

NASIR S. A. MALIK has 40 years of agricultural research experience, including 16 years in an industrial environment. He has written over 50 research articles, one patent, (publication list attached), numerous industrial reports, pesticide registration reports for EPA, intellectual property disclosures, and attracted $2 million in extramural funding from industrial clients and over $700K in competitive research grants as PI &Co-PI. He received numerous invitations for seminars, writing reviews, chapters to edit books.

plant molecular biology, plant-microbe interactions (bacterial & fungal), plant insect interactions, pesticide metabolism, pesticide formulations, isolation of bio-pesticides, grafting and propagation methods in fruit trees and vegetable crops, organic farming, and soil science

A.A. Ivlev has completed his PhD at the age of 27 years from Chemical Technology University of D.I. Mendeleev. and got his 2-nd PhD from Institute of Chemical Physics of RAS. In 2005 he has discovered a link between carbon isotope distribution and temporal organization of cell processes and was awarded with medal “To Author of Scientific Discovery” by Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. Since 1995 he is Professor of Russian State Agrarian University of K,A. Timiryazev. He has published 66 papers in reputed journals and 4 monographs. The field of his scientific interests includes isotope fractionation in metabolism, photosynthesis, plant physiology, cell mechanisms, evolution, climatology.

cell processes;

Dr. Rajasekaran is a senior Research Biologist with the USDA-ARS. He obtained his B.S and M.S. from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India. After receiving his Ph.D. from The University of Sydney, Dr. Rajasekaran has continuously worked on the application of recombinant DNA technology towards genetic improvement of food, feed and fiber crops. He has published 135 full length publications plus 12 U.S. patents, >50 international patents, and 168 national/international conference abstracts. He serves as an Adjunct Professor in five universities. Currently his research focus at USDA-ARS is on effective control or elimination of preharvest aflatoxin contamination caused by Aspergillus spp through biotechnological means in cotton and maize .

recombinant DNA technology,

Dr. Grace Chen obtained her Ph.D from University of Wisconsin at Madison, and did her postdoctoral studies from University of California ̶ Plant Gene Expression Center. She has published more than 44 papers in reputed journals is globally recognized as an expert on oilseed biotechnology.

Plant Gene Expression

Prof. Ilan Chet completed his Ph.D. in microbiology at the Faculty of Agriculture of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published more than 390 articles, edited five books and holds 38 patents. Prof. Chet served as Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Vice President of the Hebrew University and was President of the Weizmann Institute of Science. He was visiting professor at Harvard, Colorado State, Cornell and Rutgers Universities. Prof. Chet was awarded with the Max-Planck, the Israel Prize, the Wolf Prize and more. He is nowadays Deputy Secretary General of the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean.

plant pathology and soil microbiology

Gunnar Wingsle has completed his PhD at the age of 34 years from Department of Forest Genetics & Plant Physiology. He has published more than 60 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as a PI of the proteomic masspectrometry facility at Chemical Biological Centre at Umeå University and SLU since 2000.

Genetics & Plant Physiology

Danuta Maria Antosiewicz, Professor, completed Ph.D at the University of Warsaw (Poland), than held postdoctoral position at Rice University and at the University of California, La Jolla. Currently works for University of Warsaw, Faculty of Biology. She serves as editorial board member of “Biometals”. She served as a member of the Management Committee EU COST Actions related to phytoremediation and also to biofortification in minerals. She published in reputed journals over 40 papers on physiological and molecular mechanisms of a plant response to heavy-metals, on regulation of metal cross-homeostasis and on mechanisms of generation of the phenotype of transgenic plants expressing metal-homeostasis genes.

metal cross-homeostasis in plants, phytoremediation

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

Igor G. Loskutov has completed his PhD (Plant Breeding) at the age of 29 years from N.I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry, St-Petersburg (Russia) and in 2003 his dissertation of Doctor of Science (D. Sc., Botany and Plant Breeding) from the N.I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Genetic Resources (VIR). Now he is the head of department of Plant Genetic Resources Oat, Barley, Rye (VIR) and full professor of Biology Faculty of St-Petersburg State University. He has published more than 140 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of journals Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution since 2008, Advances in Plant Sciences Research since 2013.

Plant Genetic , Plant Breeding

Rajinder Singh is currently a Principal Research Officer at the Malaysian Palm Oil Board. Rajinder has been with the Malaysian Palm Oil Board for the last 19 years. He holds a PhD in Plant Genetics and is currently the Head of Genomics Unit of the Advanced Biotechnology & Breeding Centre, at the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB). Rajinder has authored and co-authored more than 32 refereed publications

Plant Genetics

Dr Milan S. Stankovic has received his PhD in University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Science, Republic of Serbia during the period of 2007-2012. Currently, he is working as assistant professor an the same University. His research has included Plant biology and ecology. He is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals like Plants, Advanced Crop Science, Research in Plant Science. He has authored 45 scientific papers published in international journals, 8 scientific papers published in national journals, 36 International conference proceedings and 46 national conference proceedings.

Plant biology and ecology

Tianzhen Zhang, Professor of Genetics and Crop Breeding in Nanjing Agricultural University. He has completed his PhD at the age of 29 years from Nanjing Agricultural University and postdoctoral studies from Ruhr University at Bochum in Germany under the Marie-Curie Fellowship for Post-Doctoral Research. He is the directors of Cotton Hybrid R & D Engineering Center (the Ministry of Education) and Cotton Research Institute in NAU. He has published more than 150 papers in cotton genetics, genomics and molecular breeding in peer-reviewing reputed journals and co-authored 8 books, and has been serving as the Co-chair from 2011-2013 and Chair of Int Cotton Genome Initiate from 2013-2015, Int. Organizing Committee member for ICGI Research conference and editorial board member of PLoS ONE.

Genomics and molecular breeding