Preliminary programme
Tuesday 19th September
14.45 - 15.15 h. Opening Ceremony
15.15 - 15.25 h. ILS where do we stand?
Speaker:
CREA, Lodi, Italy.
15.25 - 15.30 h. Legume Science journal presentation
15.30 - 17.15 h. Session 1 Legume-based value chains: innovation and optimization
Invited speaker:
Senior research fellow and managing director of ESSRG Nonprofit Ltd, Budapest. Hungary
17.15 - 17.45 h. Coffee break
17.45 - 18.00 h. A life for legumes #1
Speaker:
Aleksandar Mikić, told by Petr Smykal
Professor in Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, Palacky University, Czech Republic
18.00 - 18.30 h. A life for legumes #2
Speaker:
20.00 - 21.30 h. WELCOME RECEPTION
Wednesday 20th September
9.00 - 10.45 h. Session 2 Legume-based cropping system: performance, ecosystem services and profitability
Invited speaker:
Professor of Agricultural Systems, SRUC, Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
10.45 - 11.15 h. Coffee break
11.15 - 13.00 h. Session 3 Legumes for human and animal nutrition and health
Invited speaker:
Research Plant Geneticist, Sugarbeet and Bean Research Unit; USDA- Agriculture Research Service, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
13.00 - 14.45 h. Lunch
14.45 - 16.30 h. Session 4 Biodiversity and genetic resource exploitation
Invited speaker:
Università delle Marche, Italy
16.30 - 17.00 h. Coffee break
17.00 - 17.30 h. A life for legumes #3
Speaker:
17.30 - 18.30 h. Poster view
19.00 - 20.30 h. ILS FOOTBALL CUP
Thursday 21st September
9.00 - 10.45 h. Session 5 Genetics and omics-based crop improvement
Invited speaker:
Senior Research Scientist- Genomic and Predictive Breeding, Agriculture Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
10.45 - 11.15 h. Coffee break
11.15 - 13.00 h. Session 6 Crop breeding: challenges, tools, strategies and achievements
Invited speaker:
Scientific Director. Plant Sciences Unit, Research Institute for Agriculture Fisheries and Food (ILVO). Belgium
13.00 - 14.45 h. Lunch
14.45 - 16.30 h. Session 7 Physiology, biochemistry and systems biology
Invited speaker:
INRAE Researcher at the Research Institute in Horticulture and Seeds (IRHS) located in Angers. France
14.45 - 16.30 h. Coffee break
17.00 - 18.15 h. ILS General Assembly
20.00 - 22.00 h. GALA DINNER
Friday 22nd September
9.00 - 10.45 h. Session 8 Beneficial legume plant-microbe interactions
Invited speaker:
University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
10.45 - 11.15 h. Coffee break
11.15 - 13.00 h. Session 9 Understanding and enhancing legume crop tolerance to abiotic stresses
Invited speaker:
Hackett Professor of Agriculture Chair and Director, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
13.00 - 14.45 h. Lunch
14.45 - 16.30 h. Session 10 Understanding and enhancing legume crop tolerance to biotic stresses
Invited speaker:
Professor and Strategic Research Chair in Pulse Crop Pathology, Crop Development Centre, University of Saskatchewan. Canada
