Breeding in the era of genome editing and artificial intelligence
Bologna — June 30 – July 2, 2025
Rex Bernardo
Director, Plant Breeding Center
Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics
University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, USA
"How to use CRISPR if you're a maize quantitative geneticist"
Ana Butrón
Scientific Researcher
Consejo Superior de investigaciones Científicas, Spain
"Maize resistance to stem borers and to kernel contamination with fumonisins"
David Pot
Biological Systems Department
CIRAD Agricultural Research for Development, Montpellier, France
"Harnessing global diversity and predictive biology to accelerate sorghum breeding"
Alexander Bucksch
Associate Professor, School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
"The biology emerging from root phenotyping: Advances in Maize, Sorghum and Co."
Hilde Nelissen
VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, University of Ghent, Belgium
"Genome editing: from potential to applications"
Stéphane Nicolas
Génétique Quantitative et Evolution - INRAE, Gif sur Yvette, France
"Characterization of maize landraces to identify sources of diversity"