Organizing Committee
Dr. Abdoul Aziz Niane
ICARDADubai, UAE
Dr. Abdoul Aziz Niane
ICARDADubai, UAEBiography
Dr. Abdoul Aziz Niane is a seed technologist and rangeland ecologist with more than 30 years of experience in crop management and post-harvest seed operations. Since joining ICARDA in 1987, he has worked on seed production and post-harvest operations with extensive regional activities, including training and technical support on national seed system diversification.
He has led the operation and diversification of seed delivery systems, and implemented rangeland ecosystem monitoring and rehabilitation efforts. Dr. Niane has authored more than 20 peer-reviewed publications. His research interests include basic and applied research on seed science and technology.
He received his Ph.D. in rangeland ecology from Wageningen University in the Netherlands, and a M.Sc. in plant protection from Cukuruva University in Turkey.
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hydroponic net house ultra-low-pressure dripper root zone cooling solar energy
Dr. Dominique Rolin
University of BordeauxFrance
Dr. Dominique Rolin
University of BordeauxFranceBiography
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Dr. Wuletaw Tadesse Degu
ICARDADubai, UAE
Dr. Wuletaw Tadesse Degu
ICARDADubai, UAEBiography
Dr. Wuletaw Tadesse Degu leads the spring bread wheat breeding program at ICARDA. Before joining the Center in 2010 he worked at CIMMYT as a postdoctoral wheat breeder and in the Ethiopian Agricultural Research Institute as a crop breeder.
Dr. Tadesse’s research focuses on the development of widely adapted and high yielding wheat genotypes with resistance to major biotic (diseases and insects) and abiotic (drought and heat) stresses in sub-Saharan Africa and the Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) region. His program distributes more than 300 elite spring bread wheat genotypes on an annual basis through international nurseries to national agricultural research programs. In the past five years alone, more than 60 ICARDA wheat varieties have been released by national programs in sub-Saharan Africa and CWANA.
Dr. Tadesse has published more than 30 articles in ISI journals, and supervised 15 master’s and Ph.D. students. He received his Ph.D. in plant breeding and genetics from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and his master’s degree from Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia
Research Interest
challenges breeding production wheat ethiopia
Dr. Jacob L Manlove
Arkansas State UniversityUSA
Dr. Jacob L Manlove
Arkansas State UniversityUSABiography
has been a faculty member in the College of Agriculture at A-State since 2020 and currently is an associate professor of agricultural economics. Prior to joining A-State, Dr. Manlove worked for Tarleton State University and for Bunge North America. Dr. Manlove has an active research program in the area of rural and community development with a focus on the uses of rural broadband to sustain and produce development.
He has published many scholarly articles in national and international scientific journals and has received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and several local and state agencies.
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Prof. Stefania De Pascale
University of Naples FedericoItaly
Prof. Stefania De Pascale
University of Naples FedericoItalyBiography
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Dr. Eduard Grau Nogueira
University of HelsinkiFinland
Dr. Eduard Grau Nogueira
University of HelsinkiFinlandBiography
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Professor Tatsuya Amano
The University of QueenslandAustralia
Professor Tatsuya Amano
The University of QueenslandAustraliaBiography
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Dr. Xiong Youcai
Lanzhou UniversityChina
Dr. Xiong Youcai
Lanzhou UniversityChinaBiography
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