Organizing committees
The Symposium Committee is composed of different committees that represent scientific, organizational and gender diversity.
One of the guiding principles of the local organizing committee is to promote diversity by ensuring gender, geographic and ethnic diversity of speakers, and to facilitate the development of students, early-career scientists, and scientists from developing countries.
Sarrah Ben M’Barek
Regional Field Crops Research Center of Béja
CRP-Wheat Septoria Phenoyping Platform
Amor Yahyaoui
CIMMYT
CRP-Wheat Septoria Phenoyping Platform
Hichem Ben Salem
The Agricultural Research and Higher Education Institution
Aymen Ben Frija
ICARDA
Sonia Hamza
National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia
Moez Fakhfakh
Comptoir Multiservices Agricoles
Richard Oliver
Curtin University
- Australia
Gert Kema
Wageningen University
- The Netherlands
Timothy Friesen
USDA-ARS, NDU
- USA
Eva Stukenbrock
Christian-Albrechts-Universitätzu
- Kiel (Germany)
Marc-Henri Lebrun
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
- France
Steve Goodwin
USDA-ARS, Purdue University
- USA
Christina Cowger
USDA-ARS, NC State University
- USA
Pawan Kumar Singh
CIMMYT
Sarrah Ben M’Barek
Regional Field Crops Research Center of Béja
- Tunisia
James Brown
John Innes Centre
- UK
Amor Yahyaoui
CIMMYT
Bruce McDonald
ETH Zurich
- Switzerland
Lise Nistrup Jorgensen
Aarhus University
- Denmark
Ricardo Madariaga
Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias
- Chile
Fiona Doohan
University College Dublin
- Ireland
Michael Baum
ICARDA
Richard Oliver
Curtin University, Australia
Fiona Doohan
UCD, Ireland
Evolutionary biology: Population genetics & diversity
Bruce McDonald (ETH, Switzerland)
Amor Yahyaoui (BTF, Tunisia)
Epidemiology
Moncef Harrabi (SOSEM, Tunisia)
Lisen Jorgensen (Aarhus Universitet, Denmark)
Integrated Leaf Blight management
Federic Suffert (INRAE, France)
Sonia Hamza (INAT, Tunisia)
Pathogen genetics and genomics
Daniel Croll (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
Sarrah Ben M'Barek (CRRGC, Tunisia)
Host-pathogen interactions: cell biology and molecular mechanisms of virulence
Sophien Kamoun (The Sainsbury laboratory, UK)
Mohamed Salah Gharbi (TUNIFERT, Tunisia)
Host Resistance: mechanisms, genetics, genomics and breeding
Cyrille Saintenac (INRAE, France)
Kostya Kanyuka (NIAB, UK)
Special Topics
Thierry Marcel (INRAE, France)
Andrea Sanchez Vallet (INIA, Spain)