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S1 Exploring the symptomless phase of Fusarium graminearum infections in wheat
Dr. Kim Hammond-Kosack, Rothamsted Research, England
S2 Improving Fusarium head blight resistance in wheat – an integrated approach
Dr. Curtis Pozniak, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
S3 Fusarium head blight in Canada: history of incidence, severity and pathogen diversity
Dr. Sean Walkowiak, Grain Research Laboratories, Canadian Grain Commission, Canada
S4 Status of Fusarium head blight in the USA and response of the US Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative
Professor Gary Bergstrom, Cornell University, USA
S5 Fusarium head blight: an emerging and expanding disease in global south
Dr. Pawan Kumar Singh, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Mexico
S6 Key topics related to Fusarium head blight in Italy: an overview
Professor Giovanni Beccari, University of Perugia, Italy
S7 Genetic improvement for the resistance to Fusarium head blight in China
Professor Hongxiang Ma, Yangzhou University, China
Dr. Gert van Coller, Western Cape Dept. of Agriculture, South Africa
Wheat Breeding in Germany: FHB related topics
Dr. Viktor Korzun, KWS SAAT SE & Co.KGaA, Germany
S9 Diversity and global population structure of Fusarium graminearum (keynote)
Dr. Todd Ward, United States Department of Agriculture, Peoria, USA
S10 Phylogenomics of Fusarium species in wheat: linking species boundaries with functional traits in Fusarium head blight
Dr. Antonio Moretti, Institute of Sciences of Food Production, National Research Council, Bari, Italy
S11 Adaptation of Fusarium head blight pathogens to changes in agricultural practices and human migration
Meixin Yang, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
S12 High-throughput phenotyping of Fusarium head blight in winter wheat
Riley McConachie, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
S13 Secondary metabolites and their role in Fusarium head blight (FHB) (keynote)
Dr. David Overy, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada
S14 Inhibition of mycotoxin using microbial volatiles (keynote)
Dr. Martha Vaughan, United States Department of Agriculture, Peoria, USA
Samuele Risoli, University of Pisa, Italy
Dr. Nasim Alijanimamaghani, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
S17 Role of enniatins and deoxynivalenol in Fusarium development and interspecific competition
Professor Giovanni Beccari, University of Perugia, Italy
S18 Developing novel strategies to design FHB resistance in wheat
Professor Nidhi Rawat, University of Maryland, United States
S19 Harnessing transkingdom microbiomes to combat Fusarium head blight
Professor Thomas Baldwin, North Dakota State University, Fargo, United States
S20 Peptides derived from a Trichoderma peptaibol as an alternative method to control Fusarium head blight of wheat
Arianna Panichi, University of Padova, Legnaro, Italy
S21 Developing RNAi-based fungicides to control Fusarium head blight
Dr. Steve Robinson, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, Canada
S22 A non-GMO green biotech route to control FHB disease in wheat
Professor Mohsen Mohammadi, Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States
S23 Trichothecenes - key players in plant-microbe interactions (keynote)
Professor Fiona Doohan, University College Dublin, Ireland
S24 Plants behaving badly: why do barley plants respond stochastically to Fusarium head blight (FHB)?
Ethan Redmond, University of York, UK
Dr. Wanxin Chen, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK
S26 Mapping DON and DON-glucoside in corn
Dr. Aida Kebede, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada
S27 Fusarium environment sensing: drivers of disease, toxins, and fungicide resistance (keynote)
Dr. Neil Brown, University of Bath, England
S28 Metabolome based genome wide association study (mGWAS) on Type II FHB resistance in wheat
Dr. Lipu Wang, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
S29 Interactions between Fusarium graminearum and hydroxycinnamic acids from cereal crops.
Professor Matthew Bakker, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
S30 The role of HYD5 protein in Fusarium-barley interactions
Anuradha Jayathissa, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
S31 Integrating host gene regulations and F. graminearum effector expression to identify master regulators of FHB in bread wheat (keynote)
Professor Ludovic Bonhomme, Institut national de la rechereche agronomique et environment, Clermont-Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
S32 The pan-genomic effectome of the Fusarium sambucinum species complex
Chris Blackman, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
S33 Fusarium graminearum effector fghp1 is critical for fungal initial infection in wheat and barley
Dr. Guixia Hao, United States Department of Agriculture, Peoria, USA
S34 Fusarium graminearum secretes a serine protease, tpp1, during wheat spike infection to supress plant immune response
Dr. Reynaldi Darma, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK
S35 Prevention strategies and sustainable control of Fusarium head blight in small-grain cereals: the Swiss perspective (keynote)
Dr. Susanne Vogelgsang, Agroscope, Switzerland
Olanrewaju Shittu, Penn State University, USA
S37 A machine learning-based model for predicting Fusarium head blight epidemics of wheat across China
Professor Hao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing China
S38 Integrating satellite and smartphone: developing a multi-scale approach to Fusarium head blight estimation in wheat
Connor Belot, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
S39 The break of DON: a new era of wheat varieties in Canada (keynote)
Dr. Richard Cuthbert, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Swift Current, Canada
S40 Combating Fusarium head blight with Fhb7: from mechanisms to precision wheat breeding (keynote)
Professor Lingrang Kong, National Key Laboratory of Wheat Improvement at Shandong Agricultural University, China
S41 Toropi: A source of multiple disease resistance, including Fusarium head blight in wheat
Dr. Camila Zanella, NIAB, Cambridge, UK
Professor Thomas Miedaner, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
Professor Hermann Bürstmayr, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria