BIOTECH ATTRACTION – SESSION IV – Curriculum reviews
BIOTECH ATTRACTION – SESSION II – Curriculum reviews
Welcome and introduction
IFEMA. Raul Calleja. Director FRUIT ATTRACTION
Raúl Calleja has a degree in commercial management and marketing and has a Master's degree in communication and marketing. In addition, he is a specialist in team coaching and trade fair and event marketing. He has 16 years of experience at Ifema and is currently director of Ifema agri-food events (Fruit Attraction, Meat Attraction or Intersicop).
BIOVEGEN. Gonzaga Ruiz de Gauna. Manager
Gonzaga Ruiz de Gauna Gutiérrez is an agricultural engineer and has a Master's degree in Biotechnology Business Management from the Aliter International Business School. Currently, he works as manager and coordinator of the Association for the Promotion of R&D in Plant Genomics (INVEGEN) entity that brings together companies and research organizations in the agriculture and plant production sector, and that aims to improve the competitiveness of the sector through the incorporation of new technologies and the promotion of R&D activities related to Plant Biotechnology such as innovation engine.
COMPANIES
Omic applications for plant health. SEQUENTIA BIOTECH. Walter Sanseverino. Cofounder and CEO
Walter Sanseverino is currently CEO of Sequentia Biotech, a bioinformatics company based in Barcelona. In 2005 he graduated in Agro-Vegetable Biotechnologies. In 2009 he completed his doctorate in Genomics and Agrobiology, winning the award for best thesis defense. In the second year of his doctorate, and thanks to the granting of two scholarships for the mobility of young researchers, he completed a foreign residency at the "VIB Plant System Biology" research center in Gent, Belgium; attending the department of bioinformatics and evolutionary biology. After a year of postdoc at the Department of Agriculture of Federico II, he becomes a postdoctoral researcher at the CRAG (Center for Agrigenomics Research) in Barcelona, Spain. In 2013 he founded Sequentia Biotech with the goal of developing innovative technologies for the analysis and interpretation of omics data. In 2018 he was a visiting professor of the bioinformatics program at the Sapienza University of Rome and in 2019 he won the career award from the University of Naples Federico II. Since the beginning of his career, he has published more than 40 high-impact scientific papers in international journals.
Phytopathological Platforms based on massive sequencing techniques. VALGENETICS. Maria Albiach. Founder and CEO
Doctor in Chemical Sciences from the University of Valencia, more than 28 years of scientific experience framed in the fields of Bacteriology and Molecular Virology. Training as a plant pathologist was developed in both Spanish and foreign centers: Valencian Institute of Agricultural Research (IVIA) and Citrus Research and Education Center (University of Florida, USA). Although he began his career in the field of bacteriology, the main milestones of his research were obtained in the field of citrus viruses, using in vitro viral genetic systems, and in evolutionary studies for the development of biotechnological strategies for viral control. In 2012, the ValGenetics business project began, in which knowledge and experience come together to offer a new vision of plant health and biotechnology.
Terramin® Pro and soil health. BIOIBERICA. Nuria Sierras Serra. Head of R&D Plant Health
Graduate in Chemical Sciences. Master in Organic Chemistry and project management. More than 15 years of experience in the R&D department in the Agro area and the last two years as manager.
Innovation in agriculture as a driver of change. GLEN BIOTECH. Berenice Güerri. CEO
Berenice Güerri is CEO of Glen Biotech. In addition, she has a PhD in Biology from the University of Alicante and has been managing for 10 years to ensure that innovation through microorganisms reaches the agricultural market.
SCIENCE-BUSINESS PROJECTS
Biological Control: between Agroecology, omics and Synthetic Biology. Synthetic biology and phytopathology. Luis Vicente López-Llorca. University of Alicante (UA)
Luis Vicente López-Llorca has been director of the Department of Marine Sciences and Applied Biology at the University of Alicante from 2004 to 2006. In addition, he is founder and first director of the Multidisciplinary University Institute for Environmental Studies (IMEM-R.MARGALEF).
As a teacher he has taught at the University of Alicante since 1990 in a multitude of subjects. He has also taught postgraduate and specialization courses at the universities of Exeter (United Kingdom), Toronto and B. Columbia (Canada), Quito (Ecuador), Veracruz (Mexico), Censa-U. Agraria Habana (Cuba) and in Research Centers (UK, Holland...)
In addition, he has published 103 scientific articles (WoS, includes patents) on microbiology, plant pathology, chitosan, among other fields. He is a member of the Natural Sciences Commission for the evaluation of teaching staff (ANECA) where he has evaluated research projects for regional agencies (Castilla y León), national and international agencies.
"Advanced technologies for the sustainable protection of bananas." MUSA project. Aurelio Ciancio. Institute of Sustainable Plant Protection. Italy
Agronomist, researcher since 1984 at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and then at the Bari unit of the Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante. His research fields focus mainly on the biological control of phytoparasitic nematodes and the microbiology of the rhizosphere. He participated in several national and international projects on nematode antagonists, low environmental impact control methods, biological control, tree crop nematodes and alternative management of root-knot nematodes.
He was Secretary of the Italian Society of Nematology and member of SON, APS, OILB-WPRS and ONTA, of which he was President in 2005-2006, and Vice President of the International Federation of Nematological Societies. He was coordinator of national and EU-funded projects on plant protection, soil ecology and nematology, and reviewer for numerous scientific journals and international agencies. He is the author of more than 200 articles or summaries in national and international magazines. He is currently Springer editor of the Sustainability in Plant and Crop Protection series and Coordinates the MUSA Project, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme.
Colloquium and questions
Conclusions and closing
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