Neil O. Anderson

United States

Neil Anderson, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., is the Department Head, a Full Professor and J. William Fulbright Scholar, directing the Herbaceous Ornamental Breeding Program for the University of Minnesota. His administrative duties include research, teaching, and extension arenas. Dr. Anderson is an internationally recognized expert in plant reproductive biology, invasive species biology, geophytes, rapid generation cycling crops, tissue culture, molecular biology, plant breeding and genetics. His program releases many commercial cultivars with Intellectual Property (IP) filings around the world; he is also an expert in IP. Two of his crops were bred and developed into rapid generation cycling geophytes (flowering <1 year from seed). Dr. Anderson is also a recognized

Marta Berrocal-Lobo

Spain

Dra. Marta Berrocal-Lobo is an Associate Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and
Biotechnology at the School of Forest Engineering and Natural Resources, Technical University of
Madrid (UPM). She earned her PhD from the School of Agricultural, Food, and Biosystems
Engineering (ETSIAAB) at UPM and completed postdoctoral studies at the Plant Biology
Department of The Carnegie Institution for Science (Stanford University, USA) and the National
Centre for Biotechnology (CNB, CSIC, Spain).
With over 30 publications in high-impact JCR journals on Molecular Plant Pathology, Dra.
Berrocal-Lobo is recognized for her contributions to the field. She is an active editorial board
member for esteemed journals such as Bioprotocol (Stanford University Press), Frontiers in Plant
Science, New Phytologist, and Plant Cell Reports.

Andrés A Borges

Spain

Nandula Raghuram

India