Executive Committee
| Name | Contact | Affiliation | Photo | Biography |
| Chittarajan Kole | ckoleorg@gmail.com | Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, New Delhi, India. |  | Founding Principal Coordinator and President |
| Yong Pyo Lim | yplim@cnu.ac.kr | Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea. |  | Principal Coordinator and Secretary |
Organizing Committee
| Name | Contact | Affiliation | Photo |
| Thomas Gradziel | tmgradziel@ucdavis.edu | Department of Plant Sciences University of California Davis, California, USA |  |
| Massimo Iorizzo | miorizz@ncsu.edu | ||
| Pedro Martinez Gomez | pmartinez@cebas.csic.es | Department of Plant Breeding CEBAS-CSIC Murcia SPAIN |  |
| Hongmei Miao | miaohongmeichina@yahoo.com | ||
| Nitin Mantri | nitin.mantri@rmit.edu.au | Department: School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia |  |
| Chang Liu | cliu6688@yahoo.com | Center for Bioinformatics Institute of Medicinal Plant Development Chinese Academy of Medical Science Beijing, China, 100193 |  |
General Members
| Members | Affiliation | Photo | |
| Masaru Ohme-Takagi | m-takagi@aist.go.jp | Bio production Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Central 4, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8562, Japan | |
| Hajime Mizukami | hajimem@phar.nagoya-cu.ac.jp | Department of Pharmacognosy, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Japan | |
| Hideo Matsumura | hideoma@shinshu-u.ac.jp | Shinshu University, Ueda, Japan | |
| Byoung-Cheorl Kang | bckang67@gmail.com | Department of Horticulture, Seoul National University, Korea | |
| Alberto Acquadro | alberto.acquadro@unito.it | DISAFA, Plant Genetics and Breeding, University of Torino, Grugliasco, Italy | |
| Masayoshi Shigyo | shigyo@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp | Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi-City, Yamaguchi, Japan | |
| Shelby Ellison | Shelby.Ellison@ars.usda.gov | USDA-ARS, Madison, WI, USA | |
| Richard J. Harrison | richard.harrison@emr.ac.uk | NIAB, Cambridge, UK | |
| Pablo D. Rabinowicz | pdrabinowicz@gmail.com | Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS), University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA | |
| Nirala Ramchiary | nrudsc@gmail.com | Department of Biotechnology, Delhi Technological University, New Delhi, India | |
| Philipp W. Simon | psimon@wisc.edu | USDA-ARS and University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Horticulture, 1575 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA | |
| Dariusz Grzebelus | d.grzebelus@ogr.ur.krakow.pl | Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Krakow, Poland. | |
| Korban S. Schuyler | korban@illinois.edu | Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA | |
| Zhihong Gao | gaozhihong@njau.edu.cn | College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China | |
| Shanfa Lu | sflu2004@aliyun.com | Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, China | |
| Malali Gowda | malalig@tdu.edu.in | Trans-Disciplinary University (TDU), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India | |
| Sheetal Ambardar | sheetalambardar@gmail.com | School of Biotechnology, University of Jammu, J&K, India | |
| Dario Cantu | dacantu@ucdavis.edu | University of California Davis, CA, USA | |
| Andrew Walker | awalker@ucdavis.edu | University of California Davis, CA, USA | |
| Hieu Cao | xuan.cao@biologie.uni-halle.de | Institut für Biologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät I, Biowissenschaften, Germany | |
| Paul Fourounjian | pjf99@scarletmail.rutgers.edu | Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers. University, Piscataway, USA | |
| Wenqin Wang | wang2015@sjtu.edu.cn | Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China | |
| Alessandra Gentile | gentilea@unict.it | Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Catania, Catania, Italy | |
| La Malfa Stefano Giovanni | slamalfa@unict.it | Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Catania, Catania, Italy | |
| Deng Ziniu | deng7009@163.com | Hunan Agricultural University, Hunan, China | |
| Maizura Binti Ithnin | maizura@mpob.gov.my | Advanced Biotechnology and Breeding Centre (ABBC),Selangor, Malaysia | |
| Haiyang Zhang | zhy@hnagri.org.cn | Henan Sesame Research Center, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China | |
| Raquel Sanchez Perez | rsanchez@cebas.csic.es | Plant Breeding Department, CEBAS-CSIC, Spain | |
| Angel Fernández i Martí | Spainafernandezmarti@aragon.es | Davis Genome Center-GBSF, University of California Davis, California, USA | |
| Jiang Xu | jxu@icmm.ac.cn | Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China | |
| Hu Haoyu | hyhu@icmm.ac.cn | Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medicinal Sciences, Beijing , China | |
| Tae-Jin Yang | tjyang@snu.ac.kr | Department of Plant Science / Program in Crop Science and Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul, S. Korea | |
| Dinesh Adhikary | dinesh.adhikary@ubc.ca | University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada | |
| Michael Deyholos | michael.deyholos@ubc.ca | Department of Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada | |
| John Paul Delano Frier | john.delano@cinvestav.mx | Center for Research and Advanced Studies, National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico (CINVESTAV), México City, Mexico | |
| RAJESH MK | rajesh.mk@icar.gov.in mkraju.cpcri@gmail.com | ICAR-CPCRI, Kasaragod, Kerala, India | |
| Ramesh S V | rameshsvbio@gmail.com ramesh.sv@icar.gov.in | ICAR-Directorate of Soybean Research, Indore, Madya Pradesh, India | |
| kanthaperera | kanthaperera@yahoo.com | Institute of Sri Lanka, Lunuwila, Sri Lanka | |
| Fure-Chyi Chen | fchen@mail.npust.edu.tw | Department of Plant Industry, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan | |
| Sandra M. Schmoeckel | sandra.schmoeckel@kaust.edu.sa | Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia | |
| Mahesh HB | maheshhbg@gmail.com | Center for Genomics Discovery, Trans Disciplinary University, Bengaluru, India | |
| David Ruiz | druiz@cebas.csic.es | CEBAS-CSIC, Spain. | |
| Francesco Mercati | francesco.mercati@ibbr.cnr.it | National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Biosciences and Bio-Resources, Italy | |
| Francesco Sunseri | francesco.sunseri@unirc.it | Department of Agricultural Science, Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy | |
| James H. Leebens-Mack | jleebensmack@uga.edu | Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA | |
| Noelani van den Berg | noelani.vandenberg@up.ac.za | Department of Genetics, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa | |
| V B Reddy Lachagari | vb.reddy@aggenome.com | Agri-Genome Labs Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad, Telangana, India | |
| K K Sabu | sabu@jntbgri.res.in | Biotechnology & Bioinformatics Division, Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India | |
| Latha Rangan | lrangan@iitg.ac.in | Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India | |
| Nolan Coburn Kane | nolan.kane@colorado.edu | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado | |
| Hendrix A David | david.hendrix@oregonstate.edu | School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University, USA | |
| Paul D. Matthews | pmatthews@hopsteiner.com | S.S. Steiner, Inc. Washington, USA | |
| Chen Shi-Lin | chenshilin@icmm.ac.cn | College of Pharmacy, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, China | |
| Ian A. Graham | ian.graham@york.ac.uk | Department of Biology, University of York, York, England | |
| Kai Ye | kaiye@xjtu.edu.cn | Omics And Omics Informatics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China | |
| Pedro Martinez Garcia | pjmartinezgarcia@ucdavis.edu | Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America | |
| Salih Kafkas | salihkafkas@gmail.com | University of Cukurova, Adana, Turkey | |
| Dan Edward Parfitt | deparfitt@ucdavis.edu | Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America | |
| Z. Yuan | zhyuan88@hotmail.com | College of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing Jiangsu, China | |
| Jyoti Vakhlu | jyotivakhlu@gmail.com | School of Biotechnology, University of Jammu, Jammu, India | |
| Seyed Alireza Salami Salami | asalami@ut.ac.ir | Department of Horticulture Sciences, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran | |
| Barbey R. Christopher | cbarbey@ufl.edu | Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville FL USA | |
| Folta M. Kevin | kfolta@ufl.edu | Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville FL USA | |
| Gao Lizhi | lgao@mail.kib.ac.cn | Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS, Yunnan, China | |
| Annarita Marrano | amarrano@ucdavis.edu | Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis, Davis, CA, USA | |
| Pat J. Brown | pjbrown@ucdavis.edu | Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis, Davis, CA, USA | |
| Adebola Patrick | P.Adebola@cgiar.org | IITA Headquarters, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria | |
| Gedil, Melaku | M.Gedil@cgiar.org | IITA Headquarters, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria | |
| Ryohei Terauchi | terauchi@ibrc.or.jp | Department of Genomics and Breeding, Iwate Biotechnology Research Center, Iwate, Japan. | |
| Alexandre de Kochko | alexandre.dekochko@ird.fr | IRD, UMR Diversité Adaptation et Développement des Plantes (CIRAD, IRD, UM2),Montpellier, France. | |
| Serge Hamon | serge.hamon@ird.fr | IRD, UMR Diversité Adaptation et Développement des Plantes (CIRAD, IRD, UM2),Montpellier, France. | |
| Oliveiro Guerreiro Filho | oliveiro@iac.sp.gov.br | Instituto Agronômico de Campinas – IAC, Campinas-SP, Brasil | |
| Jana Jeevan Rameneni | saijeevan7@gmail.com | Department of Horticulture, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, S. Korea | |
| Su Ryun Choi | srchoi@cnu.ac.kr | Department of Horticulture, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, S. Korea | |
| So Young Yi | yisy@cnu.ac.kr | Department of Horticulture, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, S. Korea | |
| Sushil Chhapekar | sushilchhapekar@gmail.com | Department of Horticulture, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, S. Korea | |
| Sonam | sonamsingh688@gmail.com | Department of Horticulture, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, S. Korea | |
| Surabhi Tiwari | surabhitiwari55@gmail.com | Pharmacognosy and Ethno-pharmacology Division, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, India | |
| Mahesh Kumar Sharma | maheshsharma75481@gmail.com | Department of Horticulture, SKN Agriculture University, Jobner, Jaipur | |
| M. Samuel Jeberson | samuel8142@gmail.com | Directorate of Research, Central Agricultural University, Imphal, Manipur | |
| Meenakshi Singh | meenakshi@csir.res.in | Technology Management Directorate – SeMI (Socio-economic Ministry Interface), Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi |
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