Keynote Speakers

Dr. Allen Solomon
Former National Program Leader for Global Change Research at the U.S. Forest Service.

Mr. Pierre Mathy
Directorate I - Environment, Directorate-General for Research, European Commission (Brussels, Belgium).

Prof. Graham Bell
Professor at McGill University, Montreal (Canada).

Prof. Chris Eckert
Professor at the Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (Canada).

Dr. Jessica J. Hellmann
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana (USA).

Dr. Olivier Jaillon
Genoscope, Evry (France)

Prof. Stefan Jansson
Professor at Umeå Plant Science Centre, University of Umeå (Sweden).

Dr. Konstantin Krutovsky
Associate Professor, Department of Ecosystem Science & Management, Texas A&M University, Texas (USA).

Dr. Magnus Nordborg
Scientific Director of the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI) of molecular plant biology (GMI in Vienna, Austria, and the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA).

Dr. Thomas G. Whitham
Executive Director of the Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research, Northern Arizona University (USA).