Lorna Casselton (The Royal Society, UK) Wayne Powell (IBERS, Aberystwyth, UK) David Howlett (DFID, Glasgow, UK) Frank van Breusegem (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) - Department of Plant Systems Biology, Belgium) Marcelle Holsters (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) - Department of Plant Systems Biology, Belgium) John Pickett (Dept of Biological Chemistry, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK) Julie Scholes (University of Sheffield-Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, UK ) Howard Atkinson (University of Leeds-Centre for Plant Sciences, UK) Melaku Gedil (IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria) Michael Meztlaff (Bayer BioScience N.V., Belgium) Khaled Masmoudi (Plant Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia) Marc van Montagu (Gent University-Institute of Plant Biotechnology for Developing Countries, Belgium) Jonathan Jones (Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, UK) Ingo Potrykus (Humanitarian Golden Rice Board & Network) Dominique Michaud (University of Laval, Quebec, Canada)

Chairs Include:

Rachel Chikwamba (CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa) Ignatious Ncube (University of Limpopo, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Biotechnology, South Africa) Riekert Van Heerden (South African Sugarcane Research Institute (SASRI), South Africa) Percy Chimwamurombe (University of Namibia - Dept of Biological Sciences, Namibia) Karl Kunert (University of Pretoria-FABI, South Africa)

Source: Society for Experimental Biology