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Full Professor of Horticulture at the Università degli Studi di Palermo since 2000, where he has served as Pro Rector and  chair the Courses of “Agricultural Science and Technology and Food Science and Technology in the   University of Palermo since 2009. He is also served as Director of the Museum...

Founding partner of PN Studio PROGETTO NATURA conducts environmental consultancy andlandscape design, also in an international context, in particular parks, green facilities,ecological networks, regenerative agriculture and landscape restoration. She has developed ahigh experience in Healing gardens design.AIAPP (Italian Association of Landscape Architecture) member from 1992, she is delegatedfor the traditional...

Born in Greece, graduated in Agricultural Sciences in 1972 at the University of Pisa (Italy) where he worked until 1989. In 1974 Master's degree at the Sant'Anna University of Pisa. In 1980 PhD at the University of Padua. From 1990 to 2018 he worked as full professor at the University...

Full Professor of Horticulture at the Università degli Studi di Palermo since 2000, where he has served as Pro Rector and  chair the Courses of “Agricultural Science and Technology and Food Science and Technology in the   University of Palermo since 2009. He is also served as Director of the Museum...

Gheorghe Glăman, graduate of the Faculty of Horticulture from Iasi (1968). Doctorate at the University of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences in Bucharest (1994). Production activity (30 years) and 11 years in the state administration. In parallel, teaching in university (1993-2015), full university professor (1998).Together with 69 horticulturists, re-founded on April...

Cristian Anița is the Director of the National Archives of Romania, where he also has been Head ofthe Administrative and Cultural Archives Department and Head of the Control, Analysis, Synthesisand Public Policy Department. A historian with a PhD from "George Barițiu" Institute of History, Cluj-Napoca. Also, member of the Doctoral...

Research Professor and head of the group of Plant Hormones at the Department of Plant Nutrition of CEBAS-CSIC, Murcia, Spain. A main research objective is the prospection, identification and use of the genetic variability of Solanum sp for developing new rootstocks for improving (i) yield stability under abiotic stresses like...

Jana Zinkernagel (née Schaller) Professor and Head of Institute of Vegetable Crops at the Geisenheim University, Germany Coordinator of the WG Fertilization & Irrigation of the European Vegetable Research InstitutesNetwork (EUVRIN) since 2019 Board member of the Society of German Horticultural Science from 2011-2019 Fields of research & interests: Hydro...

Gregory Lang is a Professor of Tree Fruit Physiology at Michigan State University, a Fellow of the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS), and the Education Director for the International Fruit Tree Association (IFTA). He holds a BSc from University of Georgia and an MSc (Pomology) and PhD (Plant Physiology)...

Dr. Fazio a plant breeder and research geneticist with the USDA-ARS Plant Genetic Resources Unit in Geneva, NY. He is the Lead Scientist in the collaborative effort to breed the Geneva® series of apple rootstocks. As such, the focus of his research is to develop new apple rootstocks that are...

Distinguished Professor & Pomologist Emeritus, Department of Plant Sciences Specialist, UC Cooperative ExtensionUniversity of California, Davis Areas of ExpertiseEnvironmental physiology; tree crop physiology; carbon partitioning and crop modeling; pomology; physiology and management of fruit tree crops; peach rootstock development and physiology; dried plum breeding. HonorsFellow, International Society for Horticultural Science...

He got theDegree (“Laurea”) in Agricultural Sciences, by “Università Cattolica S. Cuore, Piacenza (Italy) on 1980, where he is  Professor of Viticulture. He got the Doctoral Degree in Agricultural Sciences with a designated emphasis in Viticulture, by Ecole National Supérieure Agronomique (E.N.S.A.), Montpellier (France), on 1991.  He was appointed Director...

Valeriu V. Cotea, PhD in Oenology and Viticulture, is full professor of Oenology and has over30 years of experience in adult and VET education, as well as experience in managing andcoordinating transnational projects in the field of scientific research.At the moment, he is the scientific secretary of the Oenology Commission...

Department of European and Mediterranean Cultures: Architecture, Environment, Cultural Heritage University of Basilicata. Born in Montescaglioso (Italy) on 10th of February 1967, he obtained his 1st degree in Agricultural Science at the University of Basilicata (Italy) in 1991. Three years later in 1994 he received his PhD in “Plant Productivity”....

Title of paper: Breeding strategies for new resilient cultivars for berry production About 30 years of academic and research career have focused on different aspects of genetics, genetic improvement, biotechnology and cultivation systems in order to improve the sustainability and quality of fruit production, with particular attention to the possible...

David Percival (Ph.D.) is a Professor of Plant Physiology and Director of the Wild BlueberryResearch Program at Dalhousie University. He is presently the Chair of ISHS’s Vaccinium Speciesand Management Working Group and is organizing the 13 th International Vaccinium Symposiumwhich is scheduled to occur from 24 to 29 August 2024,...

Title of paper: Raspberry primocane and floricane genotype, different plants type and fruit cycles manipulation  Savini Gianluca (PhD), director of raspberry breeding program and advisor office in Sant’OrsolaS.c.a, Italy. Presently the Chair of ISHA’s Rubus and Ribes Working Group and Convener of 14 thInternational Rubus and Ribes Symposium on July...

(Invited Speaker Session 1: Plant genetic resources and ornamental breeding) Agnès Ricroch is a senior lecturer in evolutionary genetics and plant breeding at AgroParisTech (Palaiseau, France) and Adjunct Professor at Pennsylvania State University, College of Agricultural Sciences (USA) where she teaches biotechnology and bioethics since 2016.  She is a researcher...

(Invited Speaker Session 2: Sustainability and quality of ornamentals) Danny Geelen is a plant biologist with broad interest in plant biotechnology and leads HortiCell, a research unit at the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University. HortiCell performs research in plant tissue culture, (regeneration and adventitious rooting), plant biostimulants and sexual...

(Invited Speaker Session 3: Flower physiology and post-harvest of ornamentals. This presentation will relate to the symposium Postharvest and horticultural products quality- S10) Julian Verdonk is a postharvest physiologist with a background in molecular plant physiology and specialized metabolites. He obtained his PhD at the university of Amsterdam on the...

(Invited Speaker Session 4: Consumer demands and market for ornamentals) Silvia Scaramuzzi is Associate Professor in Agri-food and Territorial Marketing and Economics of Ornamental Markets at the University of Florence (Italy). Her research is focused on rural development with particular attention to: rural tourism and agritourism, conservation and valorization of...

Michael Martin is a Senior Researcher at IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute and Professor (Adjunct) of Sustainable Production and Consumption Systems at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. His current research focuses primarily on sustainable food systems, where he leads a team of researchers, postdocs and PhD...

Craig Verzone is co-founder of Verzone Woods Architectes, a collaborative multi-disciplinary studio working within the overlapping realms of landscape, urban design, andarchitecture. Their work highlights the interdependence and reciprocity between buildingand open space. Extending practice into research and looping results back to projectdevelopment is part of the process, as deployed...

Doina Petrescu is Chair of Architecture and Design Activism at the University of Sheffield and Jubilee Professor 2022 at Chalmers University Gothenburg.  She is also co-founder with Constantin Petcou of Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée (urbantactics.org),  a Paris-based collective platform  which conducts actions and research on participatory urbanism and architecture, involving local residents in...

George is a researcher in floriculture at the Institute of Plant Breeding and Genetic Resources of the Hellenic Agricultural Organization Demeter, Thessaloniki, Greece. A scientist with a Ph.D. from Imperial College (U.K.) in plant tissue culture, a Postdoctoral fellowship from University of Scranton, Pennsylvania, (USA) in molecular comparative genomics and...

  Ioan Zagrai Graduated in Agronomy by the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca (1994), he obtained his PhD degree (2003) in plant breeding investigating “Plum resistance to Plum pox virus and its breeding by conventional methods”, and became senior scientist in 2004. Between 2004-2019 he held the...

Title of paper: Molecular markers as possible tools for gene conservation Anikó Veres is an associate professor of Hungarian University of Agricultural and Life Sciences. She is the leader of the MSc course in Agricultural Biotechnology and the deputy director of the education of the Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology. Her...

Nikos Tsoulias, Senior researcher and lecturer at Hochschule Geisenheim University. Dr. Nikos Tsoulias holds a PhD in Agricultural Engineering from the Agricultural University of Athens (Greece) since 2021. He received his M.Sc. in Precision Farming (2016) at Harper Adams University (United Kingdom) fully funded by CNH Industrial, while he holds...

Trim Bresilla, a researcher at Wageningen University and Research, brings a wealth of expertise and enthusiasm to the field of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Vision. Holding a PhD from the University of Bologna in Italy, Trim focused on the intersection of robotics and artificial intelligence in agriculture. His academic...

Dr. Bhimu Patil is the Regents Professor and Inaugural Leonard Pike University Professor aswell as Director of the Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center of the Texas A&M Universityand Director of USDA National Center of Excellence for Melons. He also serves as Love Tito’sEndowed Professor at Texas A&M University. He has...

Angelo Zanella is a dedicated researcher and professional currently holding positions at the Research Centre Laimburg (Italy) as head of the Institute for Mountain Agriculture and Food Technology and as leader of the Research Group for Storage and Postharvest Biology, furthermore he is lecturer in the latter field at the...

(Invited Speaker Session 3: Flower physiology and post-harvest of ornamentals. This presentation will relate to the symposium Postharvest and horticultural products quality- S10) Julian Verdonk is a postharvest physiologist with a background in molecular plant physiology and specialized metabolites. He obtained his PhD at the university of Amsterdam on the...

Prof. Xiuxin Deng, Born in Nov.1961. Xiuxin Deng, professor of Huazhong Agriculultural University; Member and vice president of Chinese Acadmy of Engineering.The president of Chinese Society of Hortiuclure. He got his Ph.D degree in Huazhong Agrcultural University in 1987.He has bee research on citrus germplasm enhancement and genetic improvement. He...