| Role | Name | Lecture title | 
				
					| Organizer - Lead Speaker | Shuxian Li | An Overview Of Research On Exploring responses Of Plantsto Pathogens And development Of Novel Techniques For Improvement Of Crop Resistance To Diseases | 
				
					| Speaker | Tzion Fahima | The Discovery Of Tandem Kinase R-Genes: Origin, Function, And Potential In
						Resistance Breeding | 
				
					| Speaker | Petra Jorasch | The potential of plant breeding innovation for improving biotic stress
						resistance in agricultural crops and vegetables | 
				
					| Speaker | Qijian Song | Development of high-throughput genotyping assays for genetic mapping of
						disease resistant genes and accelerating soybean and bean breeding for disease resistance | 
				
					| Speaker | Maeli Melotto | CRISPR/Cas9-assisted engineering for disease resistance | 
				
					| Speaker | Rosemarie W. Hammond | Strategies using Gene Silencing and CRISPR Tools in tomato to understand
						and improve plant defense against Viroids | 
				
					| Speaker | Gilda Jonson | Combating Rice Tungro-complex disease in Asia | 
				
					| Speaker | Alicia Fick | In Silico Prediction Of Plant Nlr- And Pathogen Effector Interactions Provides A Targeted Approach For Functional Characterization | 
				
					| Speaker | Aaron Harvey | In Silico Characterisation Of The Wak/Wakl Gene Family In Avocado And Implication In Defense Against Phytophthora Cinnamomi | 
				
					| Speaker | Molina-Hidalgo F | Molecular Basis Of Constitutive Defense Mechanisms Underlying Resistance To Verticillium Dahliae In The Ac18 Clone Of Wild Olive |