Dr. Robert McIntosh (University of Sydney, Australia)

Titles:

- Wheat rusts: Pathogen studies

- Wheat rusts: Host resistance studies

- Wheat rusts: breeding for resistance

- Wheat rusts: UG99 and the re-emergence of stem rust research

Dr. Hermann Buerstmayr (Institute for Biotechnology in Plant Production,  IFA-Tulln; BOKU – University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna; Austria)

Titles:

- Evaluation of wheat for resistance to FHB

- Approaches in QTL mapping of FHB resistance in wheat

- Review on QTL identified for FHB resistance in wheat

- Options for resistance breeding to improve FHB resistance in wheat

Dr. Gerrit Haatje Jan Kema (University of  Wageningen, the Netherlands)

Titles

- Genomics of Mycosphaerella graminicola     

- Genetics of the Mycosphaewella graminicola-wheat pathosystem

-  Functional analyses of Mycosphaerella graminicola genes involved in signal transduction

- Sexuality in Mycosphaerella graminicola

Dr. James K M Brown (John Innes Centre, England)

- Identification of major genes for Septoria resistance

- Association genetics for analysis of numerous traits in wheat

- QTL analysis of septoria resistance

- Interaction of septoria resistance with other traits

Dr. Shahryar F. Kianian (North Dakota State University, USA)

Titles

- Pedigree based association mapping of Fusarium head blight resistance derived from Tunisian cultivated durum wheat

- Quantitative trait analysis of FHB resistance derived from Triticum dicoccoides

- Mapping FHB resistance QTL derived from hexaploid wheat in tetraploid wheat background

- Marker Assisted Selection for Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Durum Wheat

Dr. Kumars Nazari  (ICARDA)

 - Global status of stem rust race Ug99: disease surveillance and breeding for resistance

 - Wheat rust diseases in Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA)

 - Breeding for multiple resistance to wheat disease in CWANA