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Prof. Dr. Enrico Martinoia

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Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zürich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH-8008 Zürich, Switzerland
Interests: heavy metals; detoxification; metabolite transport; vacuole

Prof. Celine Masclaux-Daubresse

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Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 78000 Versailles, France
Interests: nutrient recycling; plant senescence; autophagy; nitrogen use efficiency
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Dr. Biancaelena Maserti

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Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, UOS Firenze, Florence, Italy
Interests: abiotic stress; antioxidant system; glyoxalase pathway; poliploid plants; crop wild type and relatives; landraces
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Prof. Dr. Roberta Masin

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Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), University of Padova, Viale dell’Università 16, 35020 Legnaro, Italy
Interests: seed biology; seed germination; seed dormancy; soil seedbank; seed persistence; seedling emergence and early growth; plant phenology
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Prof. Dr. Sebastien Massart

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Plant Pathology Laboratory, TERRA-Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, Passage des Déportés, 2, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium
Interests: virus epidemiology; plant virome analysis; high throughput sequencing; molecular diagnostics; microbial communitites; microbiome
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Prof. Dr. Patrick Masson

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Department of Genetics, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 425G Henry Mall, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Interests: molecular genetics of root growth behavior and root responses to environmental stressors; role of polyamines in plant stress response
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Prof. Dr. Tatsuru Masuda

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Department of General Systems Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
Interests: chloroplast biogenesis; tetrarpyrrole biosynthesis; photosynthesis

Prof. Dr. Ákos Máthé

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Albert Kázmér Faculty, Department of Water Management and Natural Ecosystems, Széchenyi István University, 9200 Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary
Interests: plant ecology; phytochemicals; plant physiology; plant biotechnology; production of medicinal and aromatic plants; plant breeding; innovative use of plant biodiversity
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Prof. Dr. Angel J. Matilla

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Departamento de Biología Funcional (Área Fisiología Vegetal), Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Interests: molecular and physiological aspects of seeds development
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Prof. Dr. Daisuke Matsuoka

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Faculty of Health and Nutrition, Otemae University, 2-1-88 Otemae, Chuo-ku, Osaka 540-0008, Japan
Interests: stress response; plant hormones; Arabidopsis; strawberry

Dr. Andrea Maxia

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Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Cagliari, 09123 Cagliari, Italy
Interests: ethnobotany; economic botany; essential oils; biological activity; medicinal and aromatic plants
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Dr. Nataliya V. Melnikova

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Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
Interests: plant genetics; genetic diversity; molecular phylogeny; stress response; transcriptomics; high-throughput sequencing; marker-assisted selection; flax; poplar

Prof. Dr. Othmane Merah

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1. Laboratoire de Chimie Agro-Industrielle (LCA), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université de Toulouse, CEDEX 4, 31030 Toulouse, France
2. Département Génie Biologique, IUT Paul Sabatier, Université Paul Sabatier, 32000 Auch, France
Interests: plant physiology; plant breeding; abiotic stress; bioactive accumulation; essential oils; biofertilizers; cereals; oilseed crop; legumes; vegetables
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Prof. Dr. Bruno Mezzetti

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Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche 10, 60131 Ancona, Italy
Interests: fruit plant breeding; biotechnology
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Dr. Luigi Milella

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Department of Science, University of Basilicata, V.le Ateneo Lucano 10, 85100 Potenza, Italy
Interests: secondary metabolite isolation; structural determination; oxidative stress; nutraceuticals; bioactive molecules; cholinesterase inhibitory activity; Alzheimer’s disease; cytotoxic effects
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Dr. Anthony A. Millar

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Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 260, Australia
Interests: microRNAs; RNA-binding proteins; post-transcriptional gene regulation
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Dr. Alberto Minassi

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Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Piemonte Orientale, Largo Guido Donegani 2/3, 28100 Novara, Italy
Interests: natural product chemistry; synthetic methodologies applied to natural product synthesis; medicinal chemistry of natural products; photochemistry of easily available natural products
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Dr. Kiril Mishev

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Regulation of Gene Expression Laboratory, Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics, Bulg Acad Sci, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
Interests: plant endomembrane trafficking; plant hormone signal transduction; chemical genetics

Dr. Jean Molinier

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Institut de Biologie Moleculaire des Plantes, Strasbourg, France
Interests: DNA repair; small RNA; genome-epigenome dynamics; abiotic stress
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Dr. Shigeto Morita

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Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, Kyoto 606-8522, Japan
Interests: reactive oxygen species; oxidative stress; abiotic stress response; redox regulation; germination; seed storage proteins; rice
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Dr. Yuji Moriyasu

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Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan
Interests: plant biology; understanding plant responses to nutrient starvation, pathways and regulation of autophagy in plant cells, and vacuole genesis

Prof. Dr. Alessandra Moscatelli

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Department of Biosciences, University of Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milan, Italy
Interests: pollen tubes; cytoskeleton; microtubules; membrane trafficking; endocytosis
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Prof. Dr. Michael Moustakas

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Department of Botany, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: plant ecophysiology; photosynthesis; biotic stress; abiotic stress; antioxidative mechanisms; photoprotective mechanisms; reactive oxygen species
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Dr. Koji Murai

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Department of Sustainable Agriculture, Fukui Prefectural University, Fukui 910-4103, Japan
Interests: cereal breeding and genetics
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Dr. Jun Murata

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Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, Bioorganic Research Institute, Kyoto 619-0284, Japan
Interests: Plant-Rhizosphere Interaction; Interkingdom Signaling; Plant Biochemistry; Specialized Metabolism; Bioorganic Chemistry

Dr. Monika Murcha

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School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
Interests: mitochondria; protein import; tRNA import; trafficking; organelle biogenesis

Prof. Dr. Pablo García Murillo

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Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidad de Sevilla, E-41012 Sevilla, Spain
Interests: aquatic plants; aquatic vegetation; plant conservation; invasive plant species; plant taxonomy; ecological restoration
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Prof. Dr. Thomas Nägele

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Department Biology I, Plant Evolutionary Cell Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Großhaderner Str. 2-4, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
Interests: plant abiotic stress tolerance and acclimation mechanisms; metabolic regulation and signalling; mathematical modelling of plant metabolism

Dr. Sushma Naithani

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Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
Interests: systems biology; genomics; cell-cell signaling; self-incompatibility; mitochondria biogenesis; photosynthesis; chloroplast biology; plant pathway biocuration; gene-gene network modeling

Prof. Dr. Hristo Najdenski

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Department of Infectious Microbiology, The Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 26 Acad. G. Bonchev Str., 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
Interests: pathogenic bacteria; zoonoses; factors and mechanisms of bacterial virulence,; bacterial-host relationships; medical and veterinary microbiology; infectious immunology; molecular biology; ecology of pathogenic bacteria; new antibacterial agents; antimicrobial resistance
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