Scientific Overview

  • Fe nutrition and chemistry
  • Plant-soil-microbe interactions
  • Fe acquisition and transport
  • Fe homeostasis
  • Fe sensing and signal transmission
  • Whole-plant Fe physiology and regulation
  • Fe excess response
  • Crop improvement for stress tolerance
  • Crop improvement for biofortification
  • Fe interaction with other elements
  • Fe in algae and other organisms

The above sessions are currently planned and may be subject to change.

Keynote Speakers

  • Kazuhiro Iwai (Kyoto University, Japan)
  • Keiichi Mochida (RIKEN, Japan)

Invited Speakers

  • Mark Aarts (Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands)
  • Wolfgang Busch (Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, USA)
  • Mary Lou Guerinot (Dartmouth College, USA)
  • Alex Johnson (University of Melbourne, Australia)
  • Gang Liang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
  • Jun Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
  • Yoko Masuda (University of Tokyo, Japan)
  • Taro Matsuo (Univeristy of Osaka, Japan)
  • Sabeeha Merchant (UC Berkeley, USA)
  • Inez Slamet-Loedin (IRRI, the Philippines)
  • Hitomi Sawai (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan)
  • Marta Vasconcelos (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal)
  • Gregory Vert (CNRS/University of Toulouse, France)
  • Elsbeth Walker (University of Massachusetts, USA)
  • Mitsuo Yamamoto (University of Tokyo, Japan)
  • Kuo-Chen Yeh (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
  • Yuanmei Zuo (China Agricultural University, China)

    More invited speakers to be announced soon!