Christian HUYGHE

INRAE (FR) Directeur scientifique Agriculture

Invested in the transition of agricultural production systems towards agroecology and in partnership with technical institutes

Cindy MORRIS

INRAE (FR) Plant Pathology - Research

Coordinator of the BEYOND project on epidemiosurveillance

Inaki GARCIA DE CORTAZAR ATAURI

INRAE (FR) AgroClim Unit Director

TEMPO - French National Phenology Observatories Manager

Jill STANLEY

Plant & Food Research (NZ) Science Group Leader

Pre- and post- harvest physiology of fruit crops particularly stonefruit

David RUIZ

CEBAS-CSIC (SP) Department of Plant Breeding, Fruit Breeding Group

Apricot and Japanese plum breeding & research: genetic diversity, adaptation, fruit quality, marker assisted selection, varietal innovation

Davide NERI

Agriculture, Food and Environment (IT) Polytechnic University of Marche

Sustainable orchard management, Root growth, Tree pruning and training, Orchard protection by netting systems

Matthieu SERRURIER

CTIFL (FR) Economic Studies Department

Research analyst / production, trade and consumption for the fruit & vegetable sector

Andrea PATOCCHI

Division Plant Breeding at Agroscope (CH) Head of Fruit Breeding Group

Apple breeding and research, in particular: mapping, molecular markers, marker assisted selection, resistance gene cloning, test of new breeding technologies