Mr. Wenjin Li is an expert in genetic breeding within the Peanut Industry Technology System of Shandong Province and serves as the Director of the Peanut Institute at the Tai'an Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He graduated from Shandong Agricultural University and is primarily engaged in peanut genetic breeding as well as the prevention and control of peanut diseases.
Peter J. Cotty is a Plant Pathologist primarily recognized for his work on aflatoxin-producing fungi and the management of aflatoxin contamination. Dr. Cotty led the USDA Laboratory based in the School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, in Tucson where he served as Research Plant Pathologist and Adjunct Professor until retirement in 2018. Dr. Cotty is internationally recognized for his work on aflatoxin contamination. He contributed insights on the population biology and physiology of aflatoxin-producing fungi and the management of aflatoxin contamination. An authority on the contamination process, etiology, and management of this difficult problem, his work on biology, ecology, and the evolution of fungi that cause contamination has served as the basis for work in many laboratories.
Dr. Shihua Shan serves as the Deputy Director of the Peanut Research Institute in Shandong Province. He is a second-level researcher, the Chief Expert of the Peanut Industry Technology System, and the overseer of the mid-term peanut germplasm resource bank, which is recognized as one of the first "provincial-level crop germplasm resource protection units" in Shandong Province. His work primarily focuses on the innovative utilization and genetic breeding of peanut germplasm resources.
Dr. Usman Rasheed is an associate researcher at the Subtropical Crop Research Institute of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and a technology innovation expert at the Key Laboratory of Quality and Safety Control of Subtropical Fruits in Guangxi. He mainly engages in research on fungal diseases of subtropical fruits such as mangoes and passion fruit, biological control and degradation of aflatoxins, as well as the development of antifungal nanomaterials.
Professor Quirico Migheli previously served as Vice President of the University of Sassari and is the Director and Professor at the Desertification Research Centre, as well as the Vice Chairman of the Italian Plant Pathology Association. Prof. Migheli serves as the Editor in Chief of Biocontrol Science and Technology and Senior Editor of the Journal of Plant Pathology, specializing in the biological control of fungal toxins.
Prof. Qing Kong received a B.Sc. degree from the Department of
Food Science and Technology, Qingdao Agricultural University, in 2001, and a
Ph.D. degree from the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Zhejiang
University, in 2006. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, from 2011 to 2012. He is a Professor at the College of Food
Science & Engineering, Ocean University of China. His research interests
mainly focus on the inhibition of mycotoxin biosynthesis, marine microbiology, and probiotics.
