SPEAKERS

* keynote
 

Asaph Aharoni*
Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel

 

Klaus-J. Appenroth

Institute of General Botany & Plant Physiology
Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
Jena, Germany

 

Nikolai Borisjuk

School of Life Sciences
Huaiyin Normal University
Huaian, China

 

Jay J. Cheng*

Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering
North Carolina State University,
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

 

Hans Derksen
ABC-Kroos BV
Raalte, The Netherlands

 

Sergey Dolgov

Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry
Russian Academy of Science
Puschino, Russia

 

Uwe Heinig

Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel

 

Hongwei Hou

Institute of Hydrobiology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wuhan, China

 

Marcel A.K. Jansen*

Plant Sciences Group
University College Cork
Cork, Ireland

 

Eric Lam

Department of Plant Biology
Rutgers University
Rutgers, New Jersey, USA

 

Yubin Ma

Key Laboratory of Biofuels
Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy & Bioprocess Technology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Qingdao, China

 

Jurriaan J Mes
Food & Biobased Research
Wageningen University and Research Centre
Wageningen, The Netherlands

 

Masaaki Morikawa

Environmental Biology
Hokkaido University
Sapporo, Japan

 

Rob Martienssen

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA

 

Todd P. Michael*

J. Craig Venter Institute
La Jolla, California, USA

 

Tokitaka Oyama*

Department of Botany
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

 

Ingo Schubert

Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics & Crop Pant Research
Gatersleben, Germany

 

Iris Shai

Faculty of Health Sciences
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer-Sheva, Israel

 

K. Sowjanya Sree*

Dept. of Environmental Science
Central University of Kerala
Kerala, India

 

Shuqing Xu

Institute for Evolution & Biodiversity
University of Munster
Munster, Germany

 

Conference Co-chairs

  • Marvin Edelman WIS, Israel
  • Asaph Aharoni WIS, Israel
  • Avi Levy WIS, Israel

International Committee

  • Eric Lam Rutgers U. USA
  • Klaus Appenroth FSU, Germany
  • Marcel Jansen UCC, Ireland
  • Sowjanya Sree CUK, India
  • Yubin Ma CAS, China
  • Tsipi Shoham GreenOnyx, Israel
  • Autar Mattoo USDA, USA

Local Committee

  • Ron Vunsh WIS, Israel
  • Uwe Heinig WIS, Israel
  • Sagit Meir WIS, Israel
  • Barak Cohen WIS, Israel
  • Miri Lapidot Hinoman, Israel

Coordinator

Talia Suissa
talias@weizmann.ac.il

Sponsors

  • The Chorafas Institute for Scientific Exchange
  • Faculty of Biochemistry 
    WIS, Israel
  • Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences 
    WIS, Israel