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AGENDA

09:00am - 09:15 am

Welcome and Outline of the conference (M. McCabe, M. Tester, H. Hirt)

Session 1. The global perspective

09:15 am - 09:50 am

Yoshi Wada (KAUST)

09:50 am - 10:25 am

Claudia Ringler (IFPRI, Washington, USA)

The Future of Food Systems: Growing Demands and Declining Resources

10:25 am - 10:40 am

Selected talks from abstracts

10:40 am - 11:1o am·

Coffee Break

11:10 am - 11:25 am

Selected talks from abstracts

11:25 am - 11:40 am

Selected talks from abstracts

11:40 am - 12:15 pm

Carole Dalin (UCL London, UK)

12:15 am - 13:30 pm

Lunch

Session 2. Terrestrial and Marine Systems

13:30 pm - 14:05 pm

Fernando Maestre (KAUST)

14:05 pm - 14:40 pm

Paolo D’Odorico (UC Berkeley, USA)

14:40 pm - 14:55 pm

Selected talks from abstracts

14:55 pm - 15:25 pm

Coffee Break

15:25 pm - 15:40 pm

Selected talks from abstracts

15:40 pm - 15:55 pm

Selected talks from abstracts

15:55 pm - 16:30 pm

Susan Chomba (WRI Nairobi, Kenia)

16:30 pm - 17:00 pm

Coffee Break

17:00 pm - 18:30 pm

Round Table 1: Terrestrial Food Systems – Challenges and Opportunities

(Moderator, Yoshi Wada, Claudia Ringler, Carole Dalin, NN)

18:30 pm

Welcome Dinner and Poster Session 1

Session 3. Food System Challenges

09:00 am - 09:35 am

Carlos Duarte (KAUST)

09:35 am - 10:10 am

Harro Boumeester (Amsterdam Univ., NL)

10:10 am - 10:25 am

Selected talks from abstracts

10:25 am - 10:55 am

Coffee Break

10:55 am - 11:10 am

Selected talks from abstracts

11:10 am - 11:25 am

Selected talks from abstracts

11:25 am - 12:00 pm

Caroline Gutjahr (MPI Golm, Germany)

12:05 pm - 13:30 pm

Lunch Break

Session 4. Food System and Science Solutions

13:30 pm - 14:05 pm

Jonathan Jones (Sainsbury Labs, UK)

14:05 pm -14:40 pm

Christine Raines (Essex Univ., UK)

14:40 pm - 15:00 pm

Hannes Kollist (INRAe; Tartu Univ)

15:00 pm - 15:15 pm

Selected talks from abstracts

15:15 pm - 15:45 pm

Coffee Break

15:45 pm - 16:00 pm

Selected talks from abstracts

16:00 pm - 16:15 pm

Selected talks from abstracts

16:15 pm - 16:50 pm

Corne Pieterse (Univ. of Utrecht, NL)

The Extended Plant Immune System

16:50 pm - 17:20 pm

Coffee Break

17:20 pm - 18:50 pm

Round Table 2: Scientific Solutions and Translation Bottlenecks 

(Moderator, Mark Tester, Jonathan Jones, Harro Bouwmeester,…)

18:50 pm

Dinner and Poster Session 2

Session 5. Future Food Systems Perspectives

09:00 am - 09:35 am

Mark Tester (KAUST)

09:35 am - 10:10 am

Abdulaziz Al-Harbi (King Saud Univ., Ryadh, SA)

How Protected Cultivation Is Ensuring Saudi Arabia's Food Security Amid Climate Change

10:10 am - 10:25 am

Selected talks from abstracts

10:25 am - 10:55 am

Coffee Break

10:55 am - 11:10 am

Selected talks from abstracts

11:10 am - 11:25 pm

Selected talks from abstracts

11:25 am - 12:00 pm

Ndjido Kane (CERAAS, Senegal)

12:00 pm - 13:30 pm

Lunch Break (Campus Dinner)

Satellite Session: Nature-based Carbon Sequestration Technologies

13:30 pm - 14:05 pm

Presentation by Heribert Hirt (KAUST)

14:05 pm -14:40 pm

Khaled Al Rohily (Estidamah, Riyadh, SA)

14:40 pm - 14:55 pm

Selected talks from abstracts

14:55 pm - 15:10 pm

Selected talks from abstracts

15:10 pm - 15:45 pm

Ueli Niinemets (Estonian Univ. Tartu, EE)

15:45 pm - 16:00 pm

Conclusions and End of Conference

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Thuwal 23955-6900

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia