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Scientific committee

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Prof. Youjun Zhang is the Director General of the Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. His research mainly focuses on the outbreak mechanism and green control basis of major vegetable pests including whitefly (Bemisia tabaci), diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella), thrip (Frankliniella occidentalis), spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) and chive maggot (Bradysia odoriphaga), etc. He has published >200 papers in Cell, Nature Communications, PNAS, Science Advances, Advanced Science as the corresponding author. These achievements have been selected as the Top 10 Scientific and Technological Progresses of China (2021) and the Top 10 Major Advances in Agricultural Science of China (2021 & 2022), and the 2023 SIP Impact Award.
Liusheng Duan is a full-time professor and the president of Beijing University of Agriculture, China. Dr. Duan’s research focuses on plant physiology and regulation. His research has revealed the molecular mechanisms of freezing response of Radix Liriopes, as well as the regulatory mechanisms of bioregulators such as coronatine. He has published more than 200 scientific articles in international journals, obtained more than50 patents authorization, and won the National Thechnical Invention Award and the National Science and Technology Progress Award.
Shengping Zhang is a professor and vice president of the Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. His research areas focus on cucumber genetic breeding, and has completed QTL mapping and gene cloning of more than 20 agronomic important traits including fruit quality, disease resistance, and stress tolerance. He has pioneered the internationally leading molecular marker multi-gene breeding technology for cucumber, has bred 37 new varieties and obtained 24 patents. He has published 162 papers on journals such as Science, Nature Genetics and Molecular Plant, and won one national award and four provincial and ministerial-level awards.
Dr. Haiping Wang is currently a professor at Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He is mainly engaged in the research of genetic diversity and phylogeny of vegetable germplasm resources, construction of core germplasm of major vegetables, and research on innovative utilization of vegetable germplasm based on modern biotechnology. He has edited and co-edited 7 books, published over 130 papers in international and domestic journals such as Nature Genetics, Molecular Plant, Nucleic Acids Research, and Horticulture Research. He holds 19 authorized invention patents, 3 international patents, and 12 software copyrights.
Qiaochun Wang is a full-time professor at the College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, China. He received his PhD. from The Department of Plant Protection of Hebrew University, Israel, in 2023. From 2003 to 2008, he worked as a guest professor in the Department of Applied Biology of the University of Helsinki, Finland. Since then, he returned to work in China. His research focuses on cryopreservation of plant germplasm, cryotherapy for pathogen eradication, in vitro stress biology, and in in vitro somatic embryogenesis and organogenesis for plant regeneration. He has published about 142 scientific articles in SCI Journals since 1988. He has served as an associate editor for Plant Methods and Plant Disease, and has held editorial board memberships with Plant Cell Reports, Plant Cell, Tissue Culture, Annals of Applied Biology, Acta Physiologia Plantarum, and In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. He is at present time the managing editor in Stress Biology.
Jorge M. Canhoto is a professor at the Department of Life Sciences of the University of Coimbra and researcher at the Centre of Functional Ecology of the University of Coimbra where he leads the Laboratory of Plant Biotechnology. Chair of the division Plant Genetic Resources and Biotechnology of the ISHS and President of the Portuguese Center for Information on Biotechnology and deputy of the IUFRO - International Union of Forest Research Organizations. Main research areas are Plant Biotechnology and Developent.
Manuela Nagel studied agricultural sciences at the University of Gottingen, Germany. During her PhD at IPK Gatersleben (Germany) and the Millennium Seedbank of KEW Gardens (UK), she discovered her passion for long-term survival of plant genetic resources. Since 2016, she is head of the Cryo and Stress biology group at IPK Gatersleben and has managed the cryobank which preserves around 2,500 genotypes of potato, garlic and mint in cryo. Her research projects involve long-term storage of vegetatively-propagated crops, stress response and mechanisms during cryopreservation, the effect of endophytes and seed and pollen viability.
Gayle Volk’s research program has addressed conservation needs, including the development and implementation of cryopreservation procedures, for vegetatively propagated crops and crop wild relatives (fruits, nuts, and some vegetables) in the USDA National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) at the National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation (NLGRP) in Fort Collins, Colorado since 1999. Dr. Volk also co-leads the NPGS effort to develop online materials for plant genetic resources conservation and use through the GRIN-U.org website.
Jingyin Bao is currently a PhD candidate at the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), The University of Queensland. Her research focuses on the conservation of Australian native tree species, employing advanced in vitro conservation strategies. Specializing in cryopreservation, her work aims to safeguard the genetic diversity of native flora, addressing the challenges posed by escalating anthropogenic and environmental threats.
Jinmei Zhang is an Associate Professor of the Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (ICS, CAAS). Dr. Jinmei Zhang focuses on research of the developments of technologies and the investigation of the survival mechanisms of the in vitro preservation and cryopreservation for crop germplasm resources, and carrys out the in vitro preservartion and cryopreservation in National Crop Genebank of China.
Dr. Xia Xin is currently a professor and the vice director of the Centre for Crop Germplasm Resources, at Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. She holds a PhD in Botany from Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She is the curator of the National Crop Genebank of China, and mainly engaged in the research of preservation of germplasm resources, including mechanism for viability maintenance and new technology for viability detection. Furthermore, she provides advices and trainings to partners on diverse aspects of genebank managements.
Xiaoling Chen is a Professor at the Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Prof. Chen focuses on the safety conservation management and research of crop germplasm resources, especially in in vitro conservation and cryopreservation. She published 71 peer-reviewed scientific papers. Got one first-class prize and one second-class prize of National Science and Technology Progress and one first-class prize of Chinese Agricultural Science and Technology Award. She got 24 authorized patents and 5 software copyrights. She published 7 books of which are 3 deputy chief editors, 3 contributors and 1 translator. Formulated 3 agricultural industry standards. She is the member of the Society for Cryobiology since 2004.
MSc. Rainer Vollmer heads the cryopreservation program at the International Potato Center (CIP), specializing in managing cryobanks and developing advanced preservation techniques. His research primarily concentrates on creating innovative preservation protocols for Andean root and tuber crops and other clonally propagated crops.
Hugh Pritchard is a principal researcher and science leader in seed biology and conservation. He was previously Head of Seed Conservation Science at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Wakehurst and is now professor and head of the Seed Biology Research Group at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming Institute of Botany. His seed science research interests include cryobiotechnology, including the use of cryopreservation for germplasm banking. He is an independent consultant on genebank science and practice and is Executive Editor and co-owner of the low temperature science journal CryoLetters. He has co-authored 260 publications and was recently made a Distinguished Scientist of the Botanical Society of China.