Preliminary programme

Tuesday 19th September

14.45 - 15.15 h. Opening Ceremony

15.15 - 15.25 h. ILS where do we stand?

Speaker:

Paolo Annicchiarico

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:

Bálint Balázs

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:

E. Charles Brummer

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:

Christine Watson

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:

Karen A. Cichy

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:

Roberto Papa

Università delle Marche, Italy


16.30 - 17.00 h. Coffee break

17.00 - 17.30 h. A life for legumes #3

Speaker:

Noel Ellis

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:

Sukhjiwan Kaur

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:

Isabel Roldán-Ruiz

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:

Jérôme Verdier

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:

Cesar Arrese-Igor

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:

Kadambot Siddique

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:

Sabine Banniza

Professor and Strategic Research Chair in Pulse Crop Pathology, Crop Development Centre, University of Saskatchewan. Canada


16.30 - 17.00 h. Awards/Closing

17.00 - 17.30 h. Coffee break