Past Conference Information

Global Conference on Plant Science and Molecular Biology 2017 Report:

Magnus Group takes a great pride in declaring the “Global Conference on Plant Science and Molecular Biology” (GPMB 2017) which was held in Valencia, Spain, during September 11-13, 2017.

Plant Science Conference 2017 witnessed an amalgamation of outstanding speakers who enlightened the crowd with their knowledge and confabulated on various new-fangled topics related to the field of Plant Science and Molecular Biology. The extremely well-known conference hosted by Magnus Group was marked with the attendance of young and brilliant researchers, business delegates and talented student communities representing diverse countries around the world.

                                                                                            For GPMB 2017 Final Program: Click Here

The theme of the conference is “Accentuate Innovations and Emerging Novel Research in Plant Sciences”. The meeting captivated a vicinity of utilitarian discussions on novel subjects like Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Plant Biotechnology, Plant Pathology: Mechanisms Of Disease, Applications In Plant Sciences And Plant Research, to mention a few. The three days event implanted a firm relation of upcoming strategies in the field of Plant Science and Molecular Biology with the scientific community. The conceptual and pertinent knowledge shared, will correspondingly foster organizational collaborations to nurture scientific accelerations.

                                                                                             For GPMB 2017 Gallery: Click Here

GPMB 2017 Organizing Committee

Prof. Ammann Klaus, University of Bern, Switzerland

Prof. Leif Sundheim, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Norway

Prof. Cornelia Butler Flora, Kansas State University, USA

Dr. Monica Ruffini Castiglione, University of Pisa, Italy

Dr. Samir C. Debnath, St. John’s Research and Development Centre, Canada

    The Organizing Committee would like to thank the moderators Dr. Victoria A Piunova, IBM Almaden Research Center, United States, Dr. Selcuk Aslan, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany and  Dr. Susan Yvonne Jaconis, CSIRO Agriculture, Australia for their contributions which ensued in smooth functioning of the conference.

    The highlights of the conference were the keynote forum by prominent scientists, Prof. Klaus Ammann, University of Bern, Switzerland; Prof. Cornelia Butler Flora, Kansas State University, USA;  Dr. Monica Ruffini Castiglione, University of Pisa, Italy; Prof. Leif Sundheim, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Norway; Dr. Samir C. Debnath, St. John’s Research and Development Centre, Canada; Dr. Goutam Gupta, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA; Dr. Elena Rakosy-Tican, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania; Dr. Ivica Djalovic, Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Serbia; gave their fruitful contributions in the form of very informative presentations and made the conference a top notch one.

Magnus Group is privileged to thank the Organizing Committee Members, Keynote speakers, Session chairs on transcribing the sessions, in a varied and variegate manner to make this conference a desirable artifact.

Speakers of GPMB 2017

Day 1: Speakers

Antonova Galina Feodosievna, VN Sukachev Institute of Forest Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation

Cezary Piotr Sempruch, Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities, Poland

Ivan Paponov, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Norway

Malgorzata Adamiec, Adam Mickiewicz University, Institute of Experimental Biology, Poland

Michael Handford, Universidad de Chile, Chile

Natalia Repkina, Institute of Biology Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Elide Formentin, University of Padova, Italy

Magdalena Opalinska, University of Wroclaw, Poland

Moses Kwame Aidoo, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Yuke He, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, China

Sameera Omar Bafeel, King Abdulaziz University, Science college, Saudi Arabia

Joerg Fettke, University of Potsdam, Germany

Siti Nor Akmar Abdullah, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

Alberto Guillen Bas, University of Valencia, Spain

Carmen Quinonero Lopez, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Laura Fattorini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Meltem Bayraktar, Ahi Evran University, Turkey

Victoria Cristea, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Selcuk Aslan, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany

Sofia Kourmpetli, Cranfield Soil and AgriFood Institute, UK

Seanna Hewitt, Washington State University, USA

Javier Terol Alcayde, Centro de Genomica, IVIA , Spain

Susan Yvonne Jaconis, CSIRO Agriculture, Australia

Magdalena Szechynska-Hebda, Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Australia

Acga Cheng, University of Malaya, Malaysia

Henrik Toft Simonsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Yeyun Xin, China National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center, China

Sandhya Mehrotra, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, India

Gustavo Souza, Federal University of Pernambuco Bioscience Center, Brazil

Rachel Swee-Suak Ko, Academia Sinica, ABRC/BCST, Taiwan, Province of China

Yougasphree Naidoo, School of Life Sciences, South africa

Julian Witjaksono, The Assessment Institute for Agricultural Technology of Souhteast Sulawesi, Indonesia

Day-1 Posters

Lingling Shang, The Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences, Laval University, Canada

Nahaa Miqad Alotaibi, Swansea University, United Kingdom

Layla Al Hijab, West of England Universtiy, United Kingdom

Tomasz Goral, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute NRI, Poland

Mikhail Oliveira Leastro, Instituto Biologico de Sao Paulo, Brazil

Michael Handford, Universidad de Chile, Chile

Polzella Antonella, University of Molise, Italy

Wisniewska Halina, Institute of Plant Genetics Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Costel Sarbu, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Benjamin Dubois, Walloon Agricultural Research Center (CRA-W), Belgium

Sandra Cichorz, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute - NRI, Poland

Elzbieta Kochanska-Czembor, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute, Poland

Woo Taek Kim, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea

Prashanth Tamizhselvan, Masaryk University, CEITEC MU, Czech Republic

Yun Hee Kim, Gyeongsang National University, Republic of Korea

Nada Bezic, University of Split, Croatia

Havrlentova Michaela, Research Institute for Plant Productio, Slovakia

Seok Keun Cho, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea

Prasanna Angel Deva, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Kebede Mesfin Haile, Kangwon National University, Korea

Lidia Kowalska, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute, Poland

Motyleva Svetlana Mikhailivna, FSBSI ARHIBAN, Russian Federation

Paulina Drozdz, Forest Research Institute, Poland

Chul Han An, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Republic of Korea

Jurga Jankauskiene, Nature Research Centre, Lithuania

Day 2: Speakers

Victoria A Piunova, IBM Almaden Research Center, United States

Miroslava Cuperlovic-Culf, National Research Council Canada, Canada

Paola Leonetti, IPSP-CNR, Italy

Giulia Chitarrini, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy

Antonio Domenech-Carbo, University of Valencia, Spain

Nurshafika Mohd Sakeh, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

Adel Saleh Hussein Al-Abed, National Center for Agricultural Research and Extension, Jordan

Manju Sharma, Amity Institute of Biotechnology, India

Sergio Molinari, IPSP-CNR, Italy

Jaroslava Ovesna, Crop Research institute, czech Rpublic

John B. Carrigan, RebelBio SOSV, Ireland

Bardouki Haido, VIORYL S.A., Greece

Natalia Tomas Marques, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal

Azza M. Salama, Cairo University, Egypt

Chang-Yoon JI, University of Science & Technology, Korea

Kgabo Martha Pofu, Agricultural Research Council, South Africa

Siegfried Zerche, Leibniz-Institute of Vegetable- & Ornamental Crops, Germany

Piergiorgio Stevanato, University of Padova, Italy

Seong Wook Yang, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea

Alexander Hahn, Max Planck Institute for Biophysic, Germany

Klaus Harter, University of Tuebingen, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, Germany

Laigeng Li, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, China

Thomas C Mueller, University of Tennessee, United States

Djusdil Akrim, Bosowa Polytechnic, Indonesia

Ingeborg Lang, University of Vienna, Austria

Victor B. Amoroso, Central Mindanao University, Philippines

Gelsomina Fico, University of Milan, Italy

Carfagna Simona, Naples, University "Federico II", Italy

Maria Conceicao Rangel, University of Porto, Portugal

Janaina Oliveira Cruz, UNESP - Univ. Estadual Paulista, Brazil

Prerostova Sylva, Institute of Experimental Botany AS CR , Czech Republic

Noe Lopez-Martinez, Universidad Autonoma Chapingo, Mexico

Marko Sabovljevic, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Day-2 Posters

Cha Young KIM, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Republic of Korea

Nuriye Merakli, Usak University , Turkey

Carmen Isabel Castillo Carrillo, National Institute of Agricultural Research, Ecuador

Robert Lucinski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Institute of Experimental Biology, Poland

Godwin James, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Hu Fuchu, Hainan Academy of Agricultural Science, China

Nurlita Pertiwi, Universitas Negeri Makassar, Indonesia

Jerzy Henryk Czembor, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute - NRI, Poland

Yang-Soon Kang, Saturn Bio Tec Co.,Ltd, Republic of Korea

Keita Suwabe, Mie University, Japan

Bae Shin Churl, National Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Republic of Korea

Divya Sravanthi Kumbha, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Sangryeol Park, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Republic of Korea

Chen Zhe, Hainan Academy of Agricultural Science, China

Soo-Jin Kim, Korea University, Republic of Korea

Rodney Eyles, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kenya

Evgeny Gruzdev, Institute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation

Yu Jeong Jeong, Seoul national university, Republic of Korea

Chunghee Lee, Korea University, Republic of Korea

Mehmet KOC, Kilis 7 December University, TURKEY

Amani Abdel-latif, Egypt

Kamile Ulukapi, Akdeniz University, Turkey

Aftab Ahmad, Center of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Pakistan

Jose Maria Quintero-Patino, Universidad Autonoma Chapingo, Mexico                                                                  

Jaime Mejia-Benitez , Universidad Autonoma Chapingo, Mexico

Adriana Ceniceros, CINVESTAV-Unidad Irapuato, Mexico

Day 3: Speakers

Viviane Radl, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany

Bernardo Gonzalez Ojeda, University Adolfo Ibanez, Chile

Abdul Razaque Memon, Usak University, Turkey

Havrlentova Michaela, Research Institute for Plant Productio, Slovakia

Hideyasu Fujiyama, Tottori University, Japan

Errol Vela, AMAP, Universite de Montpellier, France

Saglara Mandzhieva, Southern federal university, Russia

Phatu William, University of Limpopo, South Africa

Maletsema Alina Mofokeng, Agricultural Research Council-Grain Crops, South Africa

Arooran Kanagendran, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia

Baishnab Tripathy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Ruta Veronica, University of Rome, Italy

Fouad Maalouf, ICARDA, Lebanon

AYED Sourour, National Agronamy Institute of Tunisia, North Africa

We congratulate the best poster award winner Benjamin Dubois. We would also like to thank Prof. Klaus Ammann, University of Bern, Switzerland, Prof. Cornelia Butler Flora, Kansas State University, USA, and Dr. Elena Rakosy-Tican, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania who supported us by evaluating the posters.

       We thank all the participants for their magnificent contribution towards the event which facilitated us for the successful accomplishment of this event.   

2nd Edition of Global Conference on Plant Science and Molecular Biology 2018 Report:

Magnus Group Successfully completed “2nd Edition of Global Conference on Plant Science and Molecular Biology” (GPMB 2018) during September 20-22, 2018 at Rome, Italy.

GPMB 2018 is a combination of scientists, researchers and students in the field of plant science and molecular biology across the globe. The extremely well-known conference hosted by Magnus Group was marked with the attendance of young and brilliant researchers, business delegates and talented student communities representing diverse countries around the world.          

For GPMB 2018 Final Program: Click Here

For GPMB 2018 Abstract Book: Click Here

For GPMB 2018 Picture Gallery: Click Here

Magnus Group is privileged to thank the Organizing Committee Members and Keynote Speakers for making their contributions in the form of very informative presentations

Klaus Ammann, University of Bern, Switzerland

Thomas C Mueller, University of Tennessee, USA

Ali M. Missaoui, The University of Georgia, USA

Frendo Pierre, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France

Aiming Wang, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada

Hong-Wei Xue, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Samir C. Debnath, St. John’s Research and Development Centre, Canada

Zheng Zheng, Fudan University, China

GPMB 2018 Speaker Line Up:

Stevan Knezevic, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States

Enrique G. Medrano, United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, USA

Raquel Diaz Vazquez, Lourizan Forest Research Center, Spain

Jose Renato Stangarlin, Western Parana State University, Brazil

Michal Tomasz Kwiatek, Institute of Plant Genetics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Nahaa M. Alotaibi, Swansea University, United Kingdom

Linhai Wang, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences-Oil Crops Research Institute (CAAS-OCRI), China

Kostylev Pavel, Agricultural Research Center "Donskoy", Russia

Montacie Charlotte, UMR 5096 - CNRS/UPVD, France

Geza Bujdoso, National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre – Fruitculture Research Institute, Hungary

Youssef EL Kharrassi, University of Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P), Morocco

Lin Xu, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Juan lgnacio Vilchez Morillas, Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Wen-Hui Lin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Seyed Abdollah Hosseini, Agro Innovation International Roullier Saint Malo, France

Zentgraf Ulrike, University of Tubingen, Germany

Rafal Kukawka, Adam Mickiewicz University Foundation, Poland

Adriano Stinca, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy

Yong Wang, Shandong Agricultural University, China

Tongda Xu, Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University, China

Yanju Liu, Beijing Milu Ecological Research Center, China

Sri Hendrastuti Hidayat, Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia

Zhao Mingmin, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, China

Xiaoxue Wang, Shenyang Agricultural University, China

Soo-Jin Kim, Korea University, Republic of Korea

Frederik C. Botha, Sugar Research Australia Limited, Australia

Nuria Koteyeva, Komarov Botanical Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Segret Lea, France Ginseng, France

Koksheeva Inna, Botanical Garden-Institute FEB RAS , Russian Federation

Paola Fortini, University of Molise, Italy

Svetlana Nesterova, Botanical Garden-Institute FEB RAS, Russia

Fardad Didaran, Tehran University, Iran

Ahmed Z. Abdel Azeiz, College of Biotechnology, Misr University for Science and Technology, Egypt

Hongjie Qin, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

Mariska lilly, Cape Peninsula University of technology, South Africa

Latha Rangan, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India

Sherif Shalatet, Agricultural Research Center, Egypt

Analinda M. Fajardo, University of the Philippines Los Banos, Philippines

Arshad Javaid, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, University of the Punjab, Pakistan

Ying-Hong Pan, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

GPMB 2018 Poster Presenters:

Tim Xing, Carleton University, Canada

Francois Sevestre, University Lille1, France

Elena Voznesenskaya, Komarov Botanical Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Robert Lucinski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

Halina Wisniewska, Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

M. Pilar Santamarina, Universidad politecnica de valencia, Spain

Maria Teresa Gomes Lopes, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil

Adina Mishal, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Natalia Wojciechowska, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland

Luciana Vitorino, IFGoiano, Brazil

Krystyna Rybka, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute National Research Institute in Poland, Poland

Miglena Revalska, AgroBioInstitute, Bulgaria

Tomasz Goral, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute - NRI, Poland

Andrej Pavlovic, Palacky University, Czech Republic

Panayiotis Trigas, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece

Malgorzata Adamiec, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

Layara Bessa, IFGoiano, Brazil

Seyedeh Sara Naseri Rad, The Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Germany

Patrycja Siedlarz, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute -National Research Institute in Poland, Poland

Antanas Sarkinas, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

Costel Sarbu, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania

Jose Antonio Madrid Espinoza, Universidad de Talca, Chile

Bozena Kordan, University of Warmia and Mazury , Poland

Beata Gabrys, University of Zielona Gora, Poland

Xu Zhaolong, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

Ewa Kalemba, Institute of Dendrology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Adriana Bastias, Universidad Autonoma de Chile, Chile

Hlouskova Petra, Palacky University, Czech Republic

Ananda Virginia de Aguiar, Embrapa Florestas, Brazil

Przemyslaw Bernat, University of Lodz, Poland

Bruno Lemos Batista, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil

Ross N. Nazar, University of Guelph, Canada

Jane Robb, University of Guelph, Canada

Jaime Ruiz-Vega, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico

Ricardo Tighe Neira, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile

Sophie Vincenti, University of Corsica , France

Yougasphree Naidoo, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Lourkisti Radia, University of Corsica Pascal Paoli, France

Hua Wang , Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Magali Mariani, University of Corsica , France

Wang Shubin, Institute of Vegetable Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

Zhuang Yong, Institute of Vegetable Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

Gugu Mabizela, ARC Infruitec-Nietvoobij, South Africa

Claudio Inostroza-Blancheteau, Universidad Catolica de Temuco, Chile

Ji Li, Nanjing Agricultural University College of Horticulture, China

JinFeng Chen, Nanjing Agricultural University College of Horticulture, China

Eun-Hye Kim, Konkuk University, Korea

Jong-Joo Cheong, Seoul National University, Korea

Nisreen A. AL-Quraan, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan

Yu Jeong Jeong, Seoul National University/Inbiofarm Co., Ltd, Korea, Republic of

Ting Zhou, Oil Crops Research Institute, Chinese Acdamy of Agricultural Sciences, China

Liqiang Wan, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

Nam-Chon Paek, Seoul National University, Korea Republic of

Minhuan Zeng, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Muhammad Ashfaq, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Pakistan

Woonha Hwang, National Institute of Crop Science, Korea, Republic of

Bong Choon Lee, National Institute of Crop Science, Korea, Republic of

Nezar H. Samarah, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan

Inae Braga Reis, Universidade Do Oeste Paulista, Brazil

Yejin Shim, Seoul National University, Korea, Republic of

Tang Zheren, Fudan University, China

Adriana Lima Moro, UNOESTE, Brazil

Sang-Uk, Lee, Kyungpook National University, Korea, Republic of

Magnus Group would like to express a great appreciation to all the participants for their contribution towards the conference, which facilitated us for the successful accomplishment of this event.