Yüksel Tüzel

Yüksel Tüzel is working at the Horticulture Department of the Agricultural Faculty of Ege University as a Full Professor. She graduated from Ege University in 1981 with an MSc degree and received her PhD in 1989. Between 1983 and 1984 she was employed by the Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry and thereafter became Research Assistant at the Faculty of Agriculture of Ege University. She became Associate Professor in 1992. Since 1998 she has been working at Ege University as a Full Professor. Prof. Tüzel was a Visiting Scientist at Horticultural Research International in Littlehampton, United Kingdom, April-September 1988, and at Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands, January-June 2012. Her main interest is the development of sustainable vegetable production technologies in greenhouses. She has worked on soilless culture systems, irrigation and fertilization management, abiotic stress response and grafting. In 2000 she started to work on organic greenhouse vegetable production. Prof. Tüzel has lectured on protected cultivation to undergraduate and postgraduate students. She has supervised over 30 Master and PhD students and conducted international and national projects. She has authored more than 300 scientific articles in SCI journals, national refereed journals, international and national symposia, books and chapters. Prof. Tüzel is the member of FAO Regional Working groups on Protected Cultivation. She convened six ISHS symposium and a Congress (IHC2018). She served as the President of International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) between 2018 and 2022.

Presentation title: Integrating agroecology for sustainable horticulture

  Raphael Mrode

Dr. Raphael Mrode holds a dual position as Professor of Quantitative Genetics and Genomics at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), United Kingdom, and as Principal Scientist in Quantitative Dairy Cattle Genetics at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Kenya. As a Commonwealth Scholar, he obtained his PhD in Animal Genetics and Breeding at the University of Edinburgh.

Dr. Mrode has been involved for over 30 years in the development and research underpinning genetic and genomic evaluations in dairy and beef cattle, goats, and sheeps in the UK, as well as in developing innovative genomic approaches for livestock genetic improvement in low-input environments at ILRI.

Since 2004, he has been a member of the technical committee of INTERBULL, the organization responsible for international evaluations of dairy cattle. He was also an auditor for the International Committee for Animal Recording (ICAR) and a research consultant supporting the FAO/IAEA coordinated research project on the Application of Nuclear and Genomic Tools.

Dr. Raphael Mrode has been teaching on the Quantitative Genetics and Genomics (QGG) MSc course at the University of Edinburgh since 2005. He has also co-taught an international course in Quantitative genetics and Genomics at ILRI-BeCA and has provided training for similar courses in South Korea, Romania, Turkey, Nigeria and Kenya.

He is the author of the book „Linear Models for the Prediction of Breeding Values ”, now in its fourth edition, and co-author of two other textbooks and two book chapters. Additionally, he has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers and more than 300 conference papers. Dr. Mrode has served on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Animal Science and is deputy editor-in-chief of the Animal Genetics for the journal Animal.

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 Oscar Vicente

Dr. Oscar Vicente is a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Professor at the Department of Biotechnology and research group leader at the Institute of Conservation and Improvement of Valencian Agrodiversity (COMAV), Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), Spain. Dr Vicente obtained his PhD in Sciences in 1983 from the Autonomous University of Madrid. After a three-year postdoctoral period at the Friedrich-Miescher Institut in Basel (Switzerland), Oscar Vicente moved in 1988 to the Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Vienna (Austria), where he established and led a research group working on different aspects of plant reproductive biology and its biotechnological applications, and on the molecular characterisation of pollen allergens and plant MAP kinases. Oscar Vicente returned to Spain in 1996 to join the UPV faculty, where he currently teaches different subjects in the molecular biology and biotechnology areas to Biotechnology and Biomedical Engineering students. In Vienna and Valencia, he has supervised the work of many undergraduate, master and PhD students, exchange students and visiting scientists. Dr Vicente's research interest focuses on studying plant responses to abiotic stress and stress tolerance mechanisms in the context of climate change, using as experimental material different crops, crop relatives, and wild species naturally tolerant to stress (e.g., halophytes), and combining field and laboratory/greenhouse work, and physiological, biochemical and molecular approaches. Oscar Vicente has published over 190 indexed scientific papers, most in the Plant Sciences category (Web of Science; h-index: 41). He is vice president and coordinator for Spain of the European Biotechnology Thematic Network Association (EBTNA) and is included in the ‘Top 100’ Spanish scientists in Plant Science and Agronomy (Research.com). In 2017, Dr Vicente was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa degree by the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca (Romania).

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