Cell Symposia: Towards sustainable agriculture: Genomics, bioengineering, and smart technologies
In partnership with the Yazhouwan National Laboratory
October 19–21, 2025 | Sanya, China
Abstract submission deadline: June 13, 2025
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Agriculture in the 21st century faces two significant challenges: feeding a growing global population and responding to the effects of changing climates. The emerging technologies have revolutionized plant research. Integrating genome sequencing, omic technologies, and plant genetics provides us with greater opportunities to understand plant development, nutrition, metabolism, and how plants respond to different stresses. Genome-editing technology and synthetic biology have significantly helped improve agronomic traits in various crops. The application of AI and robotics enables “smarter” agriculture.
Topics of the meeting with include:
- Plant genomics
- Nutrition and yield
- Stress responses
- Plant biotechnology
- Smart agriculture
- Guido van den Ackerveken, Netherlands
- Jacqueline Batley, Australia
- Alice Cheung, USA
- Chengcai Chu, China
- Junbiao Dai, China
- Caixia Gao, China
- Sanwen Huang, China
- Alisdair Fernie, Germany
- Markita Landry, USA
- Jiayang Li, China
- Marc Libault, USA
- Elizabeth Sattely, USA
- Paul Schulze-Lefert, Germany
- Cathie Martin, UK
- Magnus Nordborg, Austria
- Nils Stein, Germany
- Rod Wing, Saudi Arabia
- Qi Xie, China
- Jianbing Yan, China
- Shuhua Yang, China
Organizers
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Jiayang Li, Yazhouwan National Laboratory, China
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Yuli Ding, Scientific editor, Developmental Cell
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Matthew J. Pavlovich, Editor-in-chief, Trends in Biotechnology
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Yang Yang, Senior scientific editor, Cell
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Organizing Committee
- Weicai Yang, China
- Qian Qian, China
- Jianmin Zhou, China
Editors in attendance
- Yuli Ding
Scientific editor, Developmental Cell - Matthew J. Pavlovich
Editor-in-chief, Trends in Biotechnology - Yang Yang
Scientific Editor, Cell - Anne Knowlton
Senior scientific editor, Current Biology - Feijie Wu
Scientific editor, Cell Reports - Shanshan Zhang
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