Confirmed Speakers
French Associates Institute for Agriculture & Biotechnology of Drylands
Jacob Blaustein Inststitute for Desert Research
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Sede Boqer Campus,
84990, ISRAEL
Luigi Bavaresco
Director of CRA VIT. His research is on genetic improvement, disease resistance and metabolism of stilbene.
Massimo Delledonne
Professor at Verona University. He manages a research program that emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to understand plant and human biology.
Avichai Perl
Chief scientist ministry of agriculture and rural evelopment, department of plant science, fruit tree sciences. current work and interest is Grape breeding and genetic engineering.
Fabio Marroni
Researcher at the University of Udine. His research is focused on production and statistical and computational analysis of various organisms genetic and genemics data.
Amnon Lichter
Researcherat ARO department of Postharvest Science. HIs them is on Pre and post harvest means to improve storage of table grapes.
Aaron Fait
Senior lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His research deals with grape berry development up on environmnetal perturbations using metabolomics, genetics and genomics in addition to other crops.
Luigi Cattivelli
Director of the CRA-Genomics Research Centre of Fiorenzuola d’Arda. His research is focused on genetics and molecular biology of cereals.
Michal Shamir
Researcher in plant science department of ornamental horticulture at ARO. Her research is the effect of temperature on anthocyanin accumulation and its degradation in ornamentals
Mario Pezzotti
Professor of Plant Genetics at the University of Verona. His work is on berry development using whole transciptome microarray.
Ben-Ami Bravdo
Professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research is on Viticulture and enology, aroma and flavor compounds of fruit juices and wines.
Maria Stella Grando
Researcher at CRI, under FEM. Her research is on genetic basis of complex traits relevant for viticulture and fruit.
Osvaldo Failla
Associate Professor of Arboriculture and Fruit tree growing at University of Milano. His research is on Grapes maturation and quality, Genotypes x environment interaction.
Etti Or
Senior scientist at ARO, in Plant Sciences, in fruit tree sciences department. Her research is on bud
development and it mechanism.
Elyashiv (Shivi) Drori
Researcher at Samaria and the Jordan Rift regional R&D Center, Ariel. His research focuses on local grapevine germplasm collection and characterization, oenology
Alon Ben-Gal
Researcher at ARO department of Soil, water and environmental sciences. mainly the research area focuses on managing water in the arid zones
Einat Zchori Fein
Researcher at ARO entomology laboratory Newe ya'ar centre.
The research deals about multi-trophic interactions of plants/plant pathogens/ arthropod vectors/natural enemies
Nurit Agam
Senior lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her research deals with exchange of heat, water, and momentum through the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum in natural and agricultural systems.
Enrico Peterlunger
Professor at University of Udine. His research focuses on the response of grapevine up on water stress with respect to metabolomics and genetics.
Fulvio Mattivi
Researcher at CRI-FEM on plant biochemistry and human nutrition. He also coordinates biochemical studies in the fields of plant, animal and human metabolomics
Yishai Netzer
Researcher at Samaria and Jordan Rift Research and Development Center. The research focuses on applied physiology and irrigation in table and wine grapes.
Tirtza Zahavi
Researcher at Israeli Ministry of Agriculture. Her work focuses on the use of native yeast for the suppression of grape rot.
Diego Tomasi
Researcher at CRA-VIT, Research centre for viticulture. His research focuses on the relation ship between the vine and its environmnet.
Laurent Deluc
Assistant professor of plant genomics in department of horticulture at Oregon state University Corvallis, Or. His research focuses on grape functional genomics to understand its fruit biology.
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