KEYNOTE AND PLENARY SPEAKERS
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CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Seung Yon (Sue) Rhee
 Michigan State University's Plant Resilience Institute & Carnegie Institution for Science, USA

Dolf Weijers
Wageningen University,  The Netherlands

José Dinneny
​Stanford University, USA

Keiko Sugimoto
RIKEN, Japan

CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS BY DRAFT SESSION TITLE

Plenary Speakers  in Awards Session
​TBD

Plant/Microbe Interactions, Immunity, Disease Resistance

• Cara Haney, The University of British Columbia, Canada
• Hailing Jin, University of California, Riverside, USA
• Roger Innes, Indiana University, USA

Adaptation & Engineering for Environmental Stress Response

• Lily Cheung, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Holger Puchta, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
• Rashmi Sasidharan, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Epigenetics & small RNAs

• Pablo Manavella, CONICET, Argentina
• Xiaoqi Feng, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
• Ryan Lister, University of Western Australia

Reproduction, Regeneration, Seed Development

• Jia-Wei Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Rebecca Mosher, University of Arizona, USA
• Li-Jia Qu, Peking University, China

Sustainable Crops/Food/Bioproducts & Improving Photosynthesis

• Cristóbal Uauy, John Innes Centre, UK
• Jenny Mortimer, University of Adelaide, Australia
• Krishna Niyogi, UC Berkeley, USA

Development & Plasticity

• Sophia Stone, Dalhousie University, Canada
• Dave Jackson, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
• Patricia León, National Autonomous University of Mexico

NAASC Arabidopsis Community Lifetime Achievement Award

(2 awards)

NAASC Excellence in Supporting Arabidopsis Community Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging  Award

(2 awards: later & early career)

NAASC Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge Award

​(2 awards: later & early career)