International Scientific Committee
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Kris Audenaert (Ghent University, Belgium)
Developing innovative biocontrol strategies to reduce FHB and elucidating the role of CAZymes in the virulence of F. graminearum in wheat
Giovanni Beccari (University of Perugia, Italy)
FHB management, plant-pathogen interactions, etiology, secondary metabolites
Lorenzo Covarelli (University of Perugia, Italy)
FHB management, plant-pathogen interactions, etiology, secondary metabolites
Christina Cowger (North Carolina State University, USA)
Etiology, epidemiology and control of FHB and diversity of FHB-causing species.
Fiona Doohan (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Understanding cereal-pathogen interactions, host resistance and the impact of the microbiome on disease control
Dilantha Fernando (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Fusarium head blight of cereals, including host-pathogen interactions.
Florence Forget (MycSA INRAE, Bordeaux, France)
Decipher the regulatory mechanisms involved in the biosynthesis of mycotoxins and identify key factors that govern their accumulation in crops.
Donald Gardiner (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)
Pathogen biology, mechanisms of infection and regulation of toxin production
Zhang Hao (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China)
FHB management, epidemiology and modeling, population genomics and evolution of Fusarium
Antonio Moretti (ISPA-CNR, Bari, Italy)
Fusarium Head Blight of cereals, mycotoxins and Fusarium species biodiversity
Paul Nicholson (John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK)
Genetic basis of resistance to Fusarium head blight and wheat blast.
Juan M. Palazzini (Rio Cuarto University, Argentina)
Bioinputs to reduce fungal pathogens and their mycotoxins in cereals and horticulture.
Lindy J. Rose (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
Mycotoxigenic fungi that cause disease on numerous economically important crops.
Barbara Steiner (Boku, Tulln, Austria)
Genetics, genomics, and practical breeding of wheat for resistance to Fusarium head blight.
