William Newton
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

Closing Keynote Speaker:

 

Gary Stacey.
University of Missouri,Columbia. USA.

 

Plenary Speakers:

1. Nitrogen, environment and global change

David J. Richardson.
University of East Anglia, Norwich. UK.

Jan W. Erisman.
LBI, Driebergen. Netherlands.

Maren Voss.
Leibniz Institute of Baltic Sea Research, Rostock, Germany.

 

2. Evolution, diversity and ecology of diazotrophs

Catherine Masson-Boivin.
INRA/CNRS, Toulouse, France.

Dr. Wiebke Mohr 
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany.

Esperanza Martínez-Romero.
CCG-UNAM, Cuernavaca. Mexico.

 

3. Chemistry, biochemistry and biotechnology of nitrogenase

Luis M. Rubio.
Universidad Politécnica, Madrid. Spain.

Lance C. Seefeldt.
Utah State University, Logan. USA.

Sanfeng Chen.
China Agricultural University, Beijing. China.

4. Regulation in nitrogen fixing organisms

 

Anke Becker.
University of Marburg. Germany.

Yuichi Fujita. 
Nagoya University, Japan.

 

Gina Hernandez.
CCG-UNAM, Cuernavaca. Mexico.

5. Physiology of nitrogen fixing associations

Philip S. Poole.
Oxford University. UK.

Sharon Doty.
The University of Washington, Seattle. USA.

Michael K. Udvardi.
Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore. USA.

6. Plant-microbe signaling

Simona Radutoiu.
Aarhus University. Denmark.

Attila Kereszt.
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged. Hungary.

Shin Okazaki.
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo. Japan.

7. Plant physiology and crop productivity

Manuel Becana.
EEAD-CSIC, Zaragoza. Spain.

Jean-Jacques Drevon
(INRA, France)

Felix D. Dakora.
Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria. South Africa.

8. Inoculant production and applications. Novel uses and engineering of nitrogen-fixing organisms

Gustavo González Anta
(Rhizobacter), Argentina

M. A. Hungria
Embrapa Soja, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil.

Feng Feng.
JIC Norwich. UK.