Confirmed Invited Speakers

The Congress organisers are honoured to have the below plenary lectures confirmed within the Congress programme.

Monday, June 6, 11.00 – 12.45

• Rapidly increasing global dependence on rapeseed & oil to satisfy demand for food and biofuels in the years ahead
  Thomas Mielke, Hamburg, Germany
   
• Sustainable rapeseed production between science and politics
  Olaf Christen, Halle, Germany
   
• Current status and future developments in rapeseed processing for the production of high quality oil and meal
  Wim De Greyt, Zaventem, Belgium

Tuesday, June 7, 08.30 – 10.30

• Broadening genetic diversity for breeding high-value oilseed rape cultivars using biotechnological and molecular tools
  Wolfgang Friedt, Giessen, Germany
   
• Sequence analysis of the canola genome
  Dave Edwards, Brisbane, Australia
   
• Evaluation of prospective cropping system scenarios for managing oilseed rape volunteers and harvest purity using the GENESYS model
  Nathalie Colbach, Dijon, France
   
• Challenges and opportunities in the integrated management of insect pests of oilseed rape or canola
  Lloyd M. Dosdall, Edmonton, Canada

Wednesday, June 8, 08.30 – 10.30

• Technology innovation for the 3^rd generation biodiesel production
  Shiro Saka, Kyoto, Japan
   
• Disease control in oilseed rape – future challenges through high intensity production and climate change
  Andreas von Tiedemann, Göttingen, Germany
   
• Quality demands for optimal nutritional value of rapeseed
  Søren Krogh Jensen, Tjele, Denmark
   
• Illuminating rapeseed breeding with genomics
  Jinling Meng, Wuhan, China