Graham Matthews graduated at Imperial College, London as an entomologist, who had also included Chemistry in 1957. Immediately I did a visit to Nigeria travelling on a cargo ship and on a different cargo ship to examine the insects on the cargoes during the return to the Uk In 1958 I went to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Nyasaland (now Malawi) to do research on control of insect pests of cotton crops. In 1967, I returned to Imperial College, but was seconded to Malawi in 1968 to follow up previous research there, which involved a study on ultra-low volume spraying of cotton, as farmers had difficulty obtaining enough water to spray with a knapsack sprayer. In 1972, I returned to Imperial College and remained at Silwood Park campus until I retired in 2001. In 1974 I obtained my PhD and later received a DSC. Over this period I did teaching, including special courses for overseas visitors and research on Pesticide Application and supervised students doing their Doctorate. The research unit was known as the International Pesticide Application Research Centre (IPARC). I also did tests of different sprayers for WHO in relation to controlling mosquitoes, and since retirement did some training courses for WHO in four countries, namely Mexico, Gambia, India and Vietnam.. I visited numerous countries, including Brazil, China, Colombia, Egypt, Kenya, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Philippines, Thailand Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, to advise on crop protection. Visits to certain countries, including Australia, Cameroon, Ethiopia, India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, USA, Canada, Trinadad, Jamaica and Zimbabwe included participation in training courses on pesticide application. I have published several books between 1979 and 2022, notably Pesticide Application Methods (4th Edition 2014, with the 5th edition that should be ready to be published soon), Pesticides, Health, Safety and the Environment (2nd edition 2016), Pest Management (1984), Cotton Pests and their Management (1989), Integrated Vector Management (2011), A History of Pesticides (2018), and Pest Management in Cotton: A Global Perspective (2022). I have also written articles for journals and contributed a chapter to several other books. I am now an Emeritus Professor.

Manuel Jamilena currently works at the Department of Biology and Geology, University of Almería. Manuel does research in Genetics, Genomics, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. Their current project is 'Functional genomics to improve fruit quality and virus resistance in squash and watermelon"

My research over twenty five years is focussed on aquatic invasive apple snails and other invasive alien species affecting food and nutrition security of smallholder farmers. With multidisplinary team members, I experiment and devise integrated crop management systems for ecologically sustainable management approaches against invasive alien species in the changing climate. I have extensive work experience in innovative product development and promotion. I have been invited to share my work on invasive alien species and integrated pest management by many international organisations including FAO/IPPC, World Fish Center, CSIRO, JSPS, SP-IPM, IPPO, APEC, in 25 countries throughout the Asia-Pacifc region, Europe, Africa and South America. I have published four books and over 150 research articles on crop protection and production. I am currently the TAA Pacific Coordinator; a CABI-SEA Associate; SAFE-Network Pacific Islands Coordinator; Technical Advisor on invasive apple snails to DELTAMED (Asociación de Deltas del Mediterráneo), Amposta, Spain; Senior Adviser on Invasive Apple Snails, NEURICE Project-Funded by European Commission, Spain; and Visiting Adjunct Professor at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji.

D. Rolin is the coordinator of the French MetaboHUB1 proposal and has contractual responsibility for the project, its overall management, organization and control. D. Rolin has been Professor at Bordeaux University since 1994 and has recognized expertise in the fields of NMR spectroscopy, plant and fruit biology, metabolism, metabolomics and fluxomics. D. Rolin is also widely involved in the structuring of research efforts in the emerging field of functional genomics especially in metabolomics. He is heading « Bordeaux Functional Genomics Centre2 » a federation of seven technological platforms (100 permanent staff in 2015), dedicated to the study of living organisms at cellular and molecular scales in the French Aquitaine Region. In 2002, he has set up and led the Metabolome Facility of Bordeaux (BMP) until 2008, which can be considered as a pioneer in plant metabolomics in France. D. Rolin is also deeply involved in the promotion of Metabolomics & Fluxomics in France as cofounder, treasurer (2007-2010) and President of the French Metabolomics and Fluxomics Network (2010-2015; RFMF3 , a French Scientific Society created in 2005 that aims at the promotion of Metabolomics & Fluxomics in France). D. Rolin was co-organizer of nine national metabolomics congresses and two Scientific School for Metabolomics organized by RFMF at Montpellier in 2009 and in Nice in 2014

Dr. Eric Lyons is an associate professor in the school of Plant Sciences at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on scalable computational systems and infrastructure to support and accelerate life science research. To support this, Dr. Lyons is lead PI on CyVerse, a $115M project funded by the National Science Foundation to provide cyberinfrastructure for life science research. He also developed and maintained the comparative genomics platform, CoGe, which currently manages 52,000 genomes from 21,000 organisms. He has authored over 100 peer reviewed articles and book chapters, and teaches students how to use large-scale computing to solve problems and answer questions in biology. These publications encompass topics across genomics, bioinformatics, computer science, plant biology, microbial biology, malaria research, mammalian and avian research, and astronomy. Dr. Lyons serves on several boards of non-profit companies and research institutions, has worked in biotech, pharma, and software companies around the SF Bay Area, and has served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation in the Plant Genome Research Program. He earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD from UC Berkeley in Immunology, Microbial Biology, and Plant Biology, respectively. He also founded two companies: one non-profit and one for-profit.

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Dr. Dilip Shah has been a Principal Investigator at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in Missouri since 2001. His lab investigates the mechanisms of action and biotechnological applications of naturally occurring antifungal peptides called defensins and defensin-like NCR peptides. These peptides have the potential for development as antifungal agents for the control of fungal diseases in agriculture. Dilip Shah has over 35 years of experience in plant molecular biology and agricultural biotechnology. During his previous tenure at Monsanto Company, he contributed substantially to developing Roundup herbicide-resistant crops. He is a co-inventor on several patents, and his patents on glyphosate-tolerant crops were listed as “Ten Patents That Changed the World” in the 2003 year-end publication of Intellectual Property Worldwide. He won the 2019 Bar Association of Metropolitan St Louis Inventor of the Year Award. He is also a co-founder of the Peptyde Bio Company, which designs and develops antimicrobial peptides for crop protection

Professor Barbara Sawicka is an expert in the field of life sciences, in the discipline of agriculture and horticulture. Her scientific research concerns the yield variability of yielding crops in changing climatic conditions, the quality and food safety and commodity science of plant raw materials. She is the author of over 1000 scientific publications and 2 patents. He is the promoter of over 400 engineering and master's and 11 doctoral theses. Editor or co-editor 4 scientific journals

Professor. supervisor; Leader of the Environmental Remote Sensing Team; Senior Visiting Fellow at Florida State University, Oregon State University in the United States, and the University of Derby in the United Kingdom. Associate Editor: Frontiers in Environmental Science. He has hosted more than 30 provincial- and ministerial-level key research projects and published more than 100 papers (more than 60 in SCI / EI Journals