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Biennial AAB Presidential Look-Forward: Nature-based and engineered biology solutions to climate mitigation
1 November 2022 - 2 November 2022
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The inaugural ‘Biennial AAB Presidential Look-Forward: Nature-based and engineered biology solutions to climate mitigation ‘ is an international conference primarily organised by the current AAB President. Every two-years we will bring together applied biologists to explore how aspects of applied biology can be used to tackle major global challenges. The focus for this 2022 event has been proposed by Professor Christine Foyer and will explore how scientific discoveries can be applied to mitigate the upcoming challenges of food insecurity and climate change.
Thanks to everyone who has submitted abstracts for this meeting, we are excited to be accounce the final schedule for the meeting
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AAB Presidents Medallists
This event will also host the inaugural presentation of AAB Presidents Medals.
Dirk Inze (VIB-Ghent)
Tina Barsby (NIAB)
Vivienne Anthony (Syngenta Foundation)
Peter Shewry(Rothamsted Research)
Medallists will provide an oral presentation to introduce their research and career highlights.
Meeting Sessions and Confirmed Invited Speakers:
– Enhancing the efficiency of photosynthesis for improved yield.
STEVE LONG (University of Illinois) JANE LANGDALE (University of Oxford)
– Future crops: Legumes, perennial varieties of major cereals and more
MORITZ RECKLING (Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)
– Silviculture innovation to improve climate goals
LUKE MCCORMACK (The Morton Arboretum, USA) STEVE SPENCER (JABBS Foundation) FLORIAN BUSCH (University of Birmingham, UK)
– Optimising seed and root health for improved crop resilience
GARY BENDING (University of Warwick) BRIGITTE SLAATS (Syngenta. Basel, Switzerland)
– Plant breeding to meet societal need
SARAH RAFFAN (Rothamsted Research)
– Impact of climate change on agricultural nutritional security
ROB HANCOCK (James Hutton Institute)