Scientific Sessions
- 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.
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)
- 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!