| Bioeconomy: opportunities for collaboration with Costa Rica | Keilor Rojas, PhD, former Viceminister in the Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications of Costa Rica, currently Universidad Latina de Costa Rica | 19.01.2016 |
| Diversity Seek (DivSeek): An international partnership to harness the genetic potential of crop diversity | Peter Wenzl from the Global Crop Diversity Trust, Bonn | 22.01.2016 |
| Illuminating root structure and function | Dr. Rosemary White, Head, Microscopy Centre, CSIRO Canberra, Australia: Illuminating root structure and function | 23.02.2016 |
| Rhizosphere biophysics and root water uptake | Prof. Andrea Carminati, Division of Soil Hydrology, Georg-August University of Goettingen, Germany | 29.02.2016 |
| Phenotyping Challenges in Oil Palm Crop Improvement | Choo Kien Wong, Applied Agricultural Resources Sdn. Bhd. Malaysia, | 07.03.2016 |
| Nodulation in legumes and its relationship to the control of root architecture | Dr. Ulrike Mathesius, Australian National University: http://biology.anu.edu.au/people/ulrike-mathesius | 30.03.2016 |
| The rhizosphere microbiome of cultivated plants and effects of bacterial inoculants or pathogens on the indigenous bacterial community in the rhizosphere | Prof. Dr. Kornelia Smalla, Julius Kühn-Institut Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics, Braunschweig, Germany http://www.jki.bund.de/en/startseite/institute/epidemiologie-pathogendiagnostik/staff/prof-dr-smalla-kornelia.html | 25.04.2016 |
| Woody legumes are different: Water Use Efficiency and global cycles of carbon water and nitrogen | Prof. Mark Adams Professor and Director, Centre for Carbon Water and Food, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, University of Sydney, Australia (https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=isp7tF0AAAAJ&hl=en) | 18.05.2016 |
| Exploring plant-plant interactions in mixed-species stands using functional-structural plant modelling, can improvement in leaf photosynthesis increase crop productivity? | Jochem Evers&Xinyou Yin, Wageningen UR, Netherlands | 21.06.2016 |
| Can improvement in leaf photosynthesis increase crop productivity? | | |
| Spatially resolved systems biology to identify novel salinity tolerance mechanisms in barley roots | Ute Roessner, University of Melbourne, Australia | 11.07.2016 |
| Phenotyping infrastructure controlled environment and field | Francesco Loreto, Italian National Research Council Department of Bio-Agro-Sciences, Italy | 19.07.2016 |
| Topical talks Plant-biotic interaction | Michael Udvardi, Noble Foundation, USA | 16.08.2016 |
| Field Phenotyping and quantification of Plant traits | Holger Lilienthal, Julius-Kühn-Institute for Crop and Soil Sciences, Braunschweig, Germany | 20.09.2016 |
| Improving phosphorus efficiency in rice: A strategy targeting complementary efficiency mechanisms | Matthias Wissuwa, Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS) | 04.10.2016 |
| CT technology development and application on plants | Norman Uhlmann, Fraunhofer (EZRT), Fürth, Germany | 18.10.2016 |
| Perennials as renewable resources | Reinhart Ceulemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium | 15.11.2016 |
