Scientific Sessions
Session 1: Plant-soil-microbe interactions / Iron chemistry
Session 2: Iron acquisition and transport
Session 3: Iron sensing and signal transmission
Session 4: Whole-plant iron physiology and homeostasis
Session 5: Crop improvement for biofortification
Session 6: Iron excess response and crop improvement for stress tolerance
Session 7: Iron interaction with other elements
Session 8: Iron in algae and other organisms
The above sessions are currently planned and may be subject to change.
Confirmed Speakers
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)
- İsmail Çakmak (Sabanci University, Turkey)
- Christian Dubos (University Montpellier, France)
- Mary Lou Guerinot (Dartmouth College, USA)
- Alex Johnson (University of Melbourne, Australia)
- Gang Liang (Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, China)
- Jun Liu (China Agricultural University, China)
- Yoko Masuda (University of Tokyo, Japan)
- Taro Matsuo (Univeristy of Osaka, Japan)
- Sabeeha Merchant (UC Berkeley, USA)
- Inez Slamet-Loedin (IRRI, the Philippines)
- Hannetz Roschzttardtz (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
- Hitomi Sawai (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan)
- Sébastien Thomine (Université Paris-Saclay, France)
- Marta Vasconcelos (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal)
- Gregory Vert (University of Toulouse, France)
- Nicolaus von Wirén (Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Germany)
- Elsbeth Walker (University of Massachusetts, USA)
- Linbo Wu (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany)
- Mitsuo Yamamoto (University of Tokyo, Japan)
- Kuo-Chen Yeh (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
- Yuanmei Zuo (China Agricultural University, China)