IPPS8 Session 5: Keynote - Michel Ghanem - Advancing Crop Phenotyping in Africa скачать в хорошем качестве

IPPS8 Session 5: Keynote - Michel Ghanem - Advancing Crop Phenotyping in Africa

Title: "Advancing Crop Phenotyping in Africa: Exploring Boundries & Horizons" Dr. Ghanem is a Researcher at CIRAD (UMR AGAP Institut), Montpellier, France. Former Professor of Plant Physiology at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), Morocco. Before that, he was the Program Leader for Genetic Resources at the Pacific Community (SPC) in Suva (Fiji). Former Deputy Director for Research and innovation at ITK (France). Dr. Ghanem also served at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) as Crop Physiologist, where he founded and lead the Crop Physiology laboratory. He holds an Agronomy Engineering degree and a Ph.D. in Plant Biology from the University of Louvain (UCLouvain, Belgium) and an Accreditation to Supervise Research (HDR) from the University of Montpellier, France. Dr. Ghanem served also an Invited Professor of Plant Physiology at the University of Namur (Belgium). He also worked as a Research Fellow at the CEBAS-CSIC (Murcia, Spain) where he was actively involved the conception and the coordination of an EU-funded FP7 project in the field of root-science research (Rootopower). Dr. Ghanem is also expert at the Biosafety Advisory Council (BAC) of Belgium on transgenic plants and serves on the Executive Board of the Experts Working Group on Wheat phenotyping within the Wheat Initiative. His research expertise covers plant abiotic stress physiology, plant modeling, root biotechnology, and plant phenotyping. Within the CGIAR Research Program (CRP) on Grain Legumes, Dr. Ghanem served on board of the Research Management Committee as coordinator of the work on “Heat tolerant chickpea, common bean, faba bean and lentil”.