IAPB 2026 Committees

Local Organizing Committee

Pankaj Bhowmik (National Research Council of Canada) – Congress Chair
Forrest Scharf (Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture) – Congress Vice-Chair
Brittany Polley (National Research Council of Canada)
Homa Askarian (Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture)
Suma Ghosh (University of Saskatchewan)

 

International Advisory Board

Shin-ichi Arimura (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Arie Altman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Can Baysal (University of Florida, USA)
Danny Geelen (Ghent University, Belgium)
Eric Danquah (University of Ghana)
Ryozo Imai (National Agricultural Research Organization, Japan)
Gabi Krczal (AlPlanta – Institute for Plant Research, Germany)
Prakash Kumar (National University of Singapore)
Jang R. Liu (The Korean Academy of Science and Technology, Korea)
Barbara Doyle Prestwich (Univ. College Cork, Ireland)
Emeka Okechukwu (University of Birmingham, England)
Sareena Sahab (Agriculture Victoria Research, Australia)
Cristian Silvestri (University of Tuscia, Italy)
Sang-Soo Kwak (Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, South Korea)
Dan Voytas (University of Minnesota, USA)
Randall P Niedz, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

NationalAdvisory Board

Wilf Keller (Agri-Food Innovation Council)
Dominique Michaud (Laval University)
Andrii Bilichak (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)
Samir Debnath (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)
Brian Kim (York University)
Jennifer Hubert (Crop Life Canada)
Yafan Huang (CEO, Performance Plants Inc.)

Sponsorship and Exhibition Committee

Yasmina Bekkaoui (National Research Council of Canada)
Karen Tanino (University of Saskatchewan)
Derek Tiessen (University of Saskatchewan) – Sponsorship Chair

Program Committee

Homa Askarian (Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture) – Program Co-Chair
Stephen Robinson (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada) – Program Co-Chair
Ahmad Omar (University of Florida)
Alfred Huo (University of Florida)
Anze Svara (University of Saskatchewan)
Raj Deepika Chauhan (Pairwise Inc.)
Hai Ying Yuan (National Research Council of Canada)
Logan Skori (CEO, AgGene Inc.)
Anamika Ray (CEO, Anandi Botanicals)
Mohamed Elhiti (Foray Bioscience)
David Konkin (National Research Council of Canada)
Sateesh Kagale (National Research Council of Canada)
Shawn Clark(National Research Council of Canada)
Veena Veena (Donald Danforth Plant Science Centre)