Organizers

Local arrangement committee members:

• Boris A. Vinatzer, Professor, Virginia Tech (Chair)

• Alejandra Huerta, Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University

• Bingyu Zhao, Professor, Virginia Tech

• Brian Kvitko, Associate Professor, University of Georgia

• Kassaye Belay, Graduate Research Assistant, Virginia Tech

• Mariah Rojas, Graduate Research Assistant,  Virginia Tech

• Mark Williams, Professor, Virginia Tech

• Scott Lowman, IALR

Scientific advising committee members:

• Carolee Bull, Professor, The Pennsylvania State University (Co-chair)

• Virginia Stockwell, USDA-ARS and courtesy appointment at Oregon State University (Co-chair)

• Antonet Svircev, Principal Scientist, Agriculture Canada

• Chiaraluce Moretti, Associate Professor, University of Perugia, Italy

• Gabriele Berg, Professor, Graz University of Technology, Austria

• Giorgio Balestra, Professor, DAFNE Università della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

• Joel Vanneste,  Principal Scientist, The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, New Zealand

• Khumbuzile Bophela, Lecturer, University of Pretoria, South Africa

• Roberto Buonaurio, Professor, University of Perugia, Italy

• Steven Lindow, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley