Tom Warkentin
Scientific Committee Chair
Title: Dr.
Affiliation: Crop Development Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Research Interests: Pea and soybean breeding, disease resistance, end-use quality, abiotic stress resistance, nitrogen fixation
Alfonso Clemente
Title: Dr.
Affiliation: Estación Experimental del Zaidín (CSIC), Spain
Research Interests: Nutrition, gastrointestinal health, protease inhibitors, digestive process, bioactive compounds, prebiotics
Paolo Annicchiarico
Title: Dr.
Affiliation: Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA), Italy
Research Interests: Grain and forage legume breeding, genetic resources, genomic selection, agroecological breeding approaches
Nelson Nazzicari
Title: Dr.
Affiliation: Senior Scientist @ CREA-ZA (Italy)
Research Interests: Genomic selection, phenomics, computer vision and artificial intelligence, tetraploid and polyploid calling. Species: alfalfa, pea, lupin, soybean
Diego Rubiales
Title: Prof. Dr.
Affiliation: Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, CSIC, Spain
Research Interests: Legume breeding for pest and disease resistance
Pei Xu
Title: Professor
Affiliation: China Jiliang University
Research Interests: Phenomics, genomics, water relations, common bean
Jerko Gunjača
Title: Full Professor
Affiliation: University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture
Research Interests: Biometrics and Design of Experiments
Kevin McPhee
Title: Professor
Affiliation: Montana State University
Research Interests: Pulse Crop Breeding, Genetics, Disease resistance
Jose C. Jimenez-Lopez
Title: Tenured Scientist
Affiliation: Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Estacion Experimental del Zaidin.
Research Interests: Legume compounds nutraceutical properties & health benefits (functional foods); food molecular allergy
M. Carlota Vaz Patto
Title: Principal Investigator
Affiliation: Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA)
Research Interests: Legume Quantitative Genetics, Nutritional and Organoleptic Quality, Resistance to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses
Lars Kamphuis
Title: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Centre for Crop and Disease Management, Curtin University, Australia.
Research Interests: Legume Genomics and Pathology
Petr Smýkal
Title: Professor
Affiliation: Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Research Interests: Legumes crop domestication, seed dormancy, pod dehiscence, crop wild relatives
Zlatko Šatović
Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Interests: Molecular Diversity Analysis and Phylogenetics, Plant Genetic Resouces Conservation, Molecular Plant Breeding
Marion Prudent
Title: Research Director
Affiliation: INRAE, Agroecology Department, Dijon, France
Research Interests: Legume Ecophysiology – Abiotic stress adaptation – Holobiont – High Throughput Phenotyping of root systems
Pietro Iannetta
Title: Professor
Affiliation: James Hutton Institute (Scotland, UK), Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Porto, PT)
Research Interests: Whole-systems approach to valorising the multifunctional provisions of legumes across the value chain
Stefano Pavan
Title: Associate Professor
Affiliation: University of Bari (Italy), Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou (China)
Research Interests: Plant genomics and the characterization of plant genes of importance in agriculture