Plant Science Organizing Committee

Khaled Masmoudi

United Arab Emirates University, UAE

Donald L. Smith

McGill University, USA

Edgar Omar Rueda Puente

Universidad de Sonora, Mexico

Sarvajeet Singh Gill

Hong Kong University, China
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Khaled Masmoudi

University Pierre & Marie Curie, France

Prof. Khaled Masmoudi is a Plant Molecular Biologist. Plant Biotechnologist and Assistant Dean for research and graduate studies at UAEU. Dr. Masmoudi completed his PhD from the University Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris 6, France in 1993. His research is focused on studying the molecular mechanisms underlying plant responses to harsh environments such as salinity, drought and extreme temperatures. He has been able to take forward his previous research to the era of genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics and functional genomics. Actually, he’s extensively engaged in studying the impact of the rhizosphere microbiota on root system development and tolerance to environmental constraints in cereals and date palm. He developed genomic approaches to discover novel components of salinity tolerance in arid land plants and date palm.

Donald L. Smith

McGill University, USA
During his 35 years at McGill Donald L. Smith (Distinguished James McGill Professor) has conducted research in the production and physiology of crop plants, with an emphasis on plant-microbe interactions, most recently, within the context of biofuel feedstock production. Specific areas of research have been: nitrogen metabolism, nitrogen fixation, low temperature stress and legume nodulation, methods for injection of metabolites into plants, cereal production, plant growth regulators, intercropping, inter-plant competition, plant-microbe signaling, plants and climate change, biofuel crops, cannabis, crop stress responses and biochar as a soil amendment. Work on microbe-to-plant signals and plant stress responses has is leading to climate change resilient crop production systems. He has trained 82 graduate students, ~2/3 at the Ph.D. level, published >350 papers, generated thirteen patents, started a spin-off company (Bios Agriculture Inc.), and commercialized technologies now applied to ~100 million ha of cropland per year. He has been cited more than 14,000 times and his current H index (Research Gate) is 61. He has been principal investigator on research grants totaling ~$80 million. He currently led BioFuelNet, which was just finished a 5-year cycle of funding ($50 M), which led to an additional $10 M to fund Biomass Canada through AAFC

Edgar Omar Rueda Puente

Universidad de Sonora, Mexico
Edgar Omar Rueda Puente Awarded with the Doctor Honoris Causa degree by the International Organization for Inclusion and Educational Quality. Level two in the National System of Researchers of CONACyT. Six occasions as distinguished 2004-2006-2008-2010-; 2012-; 2014-2015; Qualified to audit and implement institutions management systems by Mexican Accreditation Entity (EMA: ISO 9001: 2015 Quality Management Systems; ISO 14001: 2015 Environmental Management System; ISO 21001: 2018Management System for educational organizations; ISO 50001 Energy management systems; Certification in labor competence in the EC0217-CONOCER Competency Standard (teaching of training courses in a group face-to-face manner; Member of the Inter-secretarial Commission for Biosafety of Genetically Organisms Modified in Mexico.

Sarvajeet Singh Gill

Maharshi Dayanand University, India
Dr. Sarvajeet Singh Gill has completed his PhD at the age of 28 years from AMU, Aligarh and postdoctoral studies from International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB). Since 2010, he is working as Professor (Asstt.) of Agriculture Biotechnology at Centre for Biotechnology, Maharshi Dayanand University. Dr. Gill in collaboration with Dr. Narendra Tuteja group at ICGEB conferred the novel function of helicases in abiotic stress tolerance. He has published >100 papers in the journals of international repute with over > 16829 citations and h-index – 44, edited >28 books and has been serving as an editorial board member in the journals of International repute. Dr. Gill has been conferred with Research Excellence & Citation Award from Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science). Dr. Gill has also heatured consecutively in the “World Ranking of Top 2% Scientists” in 2021 & 2022.