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FINAL PROGRAM: 14 IBGS Program

14th IBGS presentations authorized for publication:

FIELD DAY

DANIEL MIRALLES (Chair) – PhD University of Buenos Aires, Argentina – Senior Researcher at CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina). Full Professor of the School of Agriculture University of Buenos Aires and Senior Researcher of IFEVA CONICET (National Council of Scientific and Technical Research). His expertise is focused on crop physiology of yield and grain quality, carbon and nitrogen relationships working in wheat, barley and Brassicas crops. Dr Miralles has published more than 100 papers, 5 edited books and 31 book chapters.
SANTIAGO ALVAREZ PRADO (Co-chair) – has a Bachelor degree in Agronomy from the University of Buenos Aires and a Doctoral degree in Agricultural Science from the University of Rosario, Argentina. He is also member of the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET). His research is focused on crop physiology, specially under drought conditions in wheat, barley, soybean and maize.

KEY-SPEAKERS

ROXANA SAVIN – Ph.D. in crop physiology at the University of Melbourne, Australia. is currently Professor at the University of Lleida (Spain), where she is also Coordinator of the PhD Programme in Agricultural and Food Science and Technology. Roxana is currently Technical Editor of Crop Science (USA). Her expertise is focused on physiology of yield and grain quality, carbon and nitrogen relationships, and heat and nitrogen stress. Dr Savin has published more than 90 papers in JCR-indexed journals and 26 Chapters in Scientific books of international publishers (e.g. Elsevier, CABI, Springer, Academic Press, etc) and has coedited a book and an Encyclopaedia.
LAURA ROSSINI – PhD in Genetics at University of Milan, Italy. After working as a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford (UK), she moved back to University of Milan, where she is currently full professor of crop genetics and head of the Master programme in Crops and Plant Sciences. For the past twenty-four years she and her group have applied genetics and genomics approaches to investigate the mechanisms controlling plant morphology and development with a major focus on barley. Since 2008, she also engaged in research on fruit trees, participating in the International Peach Genome Initiative and the development of genomics-based approaches for genetic dissection and improvement of fruit quality and agronomic traits.
BRIAN SEFFENSON – My main research interests include disease resistance in cereal crops, genetic diversity in the wild crop progenitors, host-parasite genetics, and virulence/molecular diversity in plant pathogenic fungi. As the Lieberman-Okinow Endowed Chair, my primary mission is to identify, characterize, and utilize genes from wild species for the enhancement and improvement of wheat, barley, oat, and rye. I am also involved in collaborative projects to clone disease resistance genes using a map-based approach.
PING YANG – Dr. Professor in Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). He got his PhD in Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in 2014. After the postdocteral research in Max-Planck-Institute of Plant Breeding and University of Zurich, he became a group leader in Institute of Crop Sciences, CAAS. He mainly works in barley genetics, genomics and germplasm innovation.
MIGUEL SÁNCHEZ GARCÍA – PhD in Plant Breeding at University of Lleida (Spain). Since 2020 I lead the Global Barley Breeding Program of ICARDA-CGIAR. I work with the National Agricultural Research Institutes in the Developing World to breed new barley varieties with increased grain and straw productivity, adapted to the constraints of Climate Change (particularly drought, heat, salinity, and diseases) and with increased food-feed-malting quality to make farms more resilient and improve farmer’s livelihoods.
ALESSANDRO TONDELLI – is Research Director at CREA-Genomics and Bioinformatics in Fiorenzuola d’Arda, Italy. His work is mainly dedicated to the genetic dissection of quantitative traits in barley and other cereal crop species, with particular attention to different aspects of plant adaptation to the environment, such as tolerance to abiotic stresses, regulation of plant phenology and yield adaptation. He manages Public-Private Partnerships to develop advanced barley cultivars for Italy and other South European countries
RAMAMURTHY (MALI) MAHALINGAM – is a Research Leader of the USDA-ARS Ceral Crop Research Unit has a strong background in agriculture in general and plant molecular biology in particular. Ten years of experience in training, mentoring, advising undergraduate, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Research interests are in translational agriculture – identifying and manipulating key genes regulating agricultural traits of economic importance
DAVID MOODY – joined InterGrain in 2007 after a 25 year career in plant breeding and plant genetics with the Department of Primary Industries, and previously the University of Adelaide. He has played an integral role in setting the governance and commercial platform for the business. Over the course of his career, he has become Australia’s most successful barley breeder, with over 50% of the national area sown to his varieties. David has released some of Australia’s highest yielding barley varieties including La Trobe and Spartacus CL and more recently Neo and Maximus CL. His research interests remain in the areas of crop physiology and stress tolerance. David is actively involved in industry forums, currently being vice Chairman of the Grains Industry of Western Australia Barley Council.
BERTRAM SACHER – Dr.-Ing., brewing scientist and lecturer for brewing raw materials, malt production and brewhouse technology at the Chair for Brewing and Beverage Technology of the Technical University of Munich in Weihenstephan, Germany. My research topics comprise malting technology (enzymology, starch structure and gelatinization behavior), development of protein rich LAB-fermented soft drinks with health benefits and synthetic biology for special purposes in the brewery (E. coli as biosensor for zinc amount). I recently finished a project addressing the identification and use of heat stable beta amylase alleles of wild and primitive barley in quality breeding. My current focus is the production of Spirulina biomass and value-added products from algae by means of a biorefinery concept using CO2, released during germination in malthouses and fermentation in breweries.
MARTA IZYDORCZYK – Dr. Research scientist and program manager of Milling and Malting at the Canadian Grain Commission’s Milling and Malting Grain Research Laboratory Research on Barley and other Grains Research scientist/program manager. Milling and Malting / Research on Barley and other Grains. Marta Published more than 100 scientific and technical papers with more than 6000 citations