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8th International Conference on Bacterial Blight of Rice (ICBB08)
Event: June 11-14, 2026
Venue: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Name: Dr. Jan Leach

Department: Agricultural Biology, College of Agricultural Sciences

Address: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

Email: jan.leach@colostate.edu

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Name: Dr. Frank White

Department: Department of Plant Pathology

Address: University of Florida, Gainesville FL 32611, USA

Email: ffwhite@ufl.edu

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Name: Dr. Bing Yang

Department: Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri

Address: 1201 Rollins Street, Columbia, MO 65211, USA

Email: yangbi@missouri.edu

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Name: Dr. Adam Joseph Bogdanove

Department: School of Integrative Plant Science, Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

Address: Cornell University, 308 Plant Science, Ithaca, NY 14853

Email: ajb7@cornell.edu

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Name: Dr. Valerie Verdier

Department: French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development

Address: Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Email: Valerie.Verdier@ird.fr

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Name: Dr. Boris Szurek

Department: French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development

Address: Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Email: boris.szurek@ird.fr

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Name: Dr. Wolf Frommer

Department: Institute for Molecular Physiology

Address: Heinrich-Heine-University, Universitätsstr. 126.14.00.116, Germany

Email: frommew@hhu.de

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Name: Dr. Ricardo Oliva

Department: The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

Address: Via di San Domenico, 1, 00153 Rome, Italy

Email: ricardo.oliva@worldveg.org

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Name: Dr. Van Schepler Luu

Department: International Rice Research Institute

Address: DAPO Box 7777 Metro Manila 1301, Philippines

Email: v.scheplerluu@irri.org

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Name: Dr. Casiana M. Vera Cruz

Department: Consultant, International Rice Research Institute

Address: DAPO Box 7777, Metro Manila, The Philippines

Email: nollie.veracruz@gmail.com

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Name: Dr. Seiji Tsuge

Department: Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto Prefectural University

Address: Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8522, Japan

Email: s_tsuge@kpu.ac.jp

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Name: Dr. Lin-Woo Kang

Department: Department of Biological Sciences, Konkuk University

Address: 268 Chungwon-daero Chungju-si Chungcheongbuk-do 27478 KOREA

Email: lkang@konkuk.ac.kr

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Name: Dr. Thach Ngoc Tran

Department: Cuulong Delta Rice Research Institute

Address: Tan Thanh Commune, Thoi Lai District, CanTho City

Email: thach69@gmail.com

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Name: Dr. Geoffrey Onaga

Department: Africa Rice Center in Cote d'Ivoire

Address: 8 Miotoni Lane, Karen, Nairobi-Kenya

Email: g.onaga@cgiar.org

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Name: Dr. Bo Zhu

Department: School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Address: 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China

Email: bzhu1981@sjtu.edu.cn

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Name: Dr. Ramesh V. Sonti

Department: International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, India

Address: Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Delhi 110067, India

Email: sonti@ccmb.res.in

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Name: Dr. Jagjeet Singh Lore

Department: Punjab Agricultural University

Address: Ferozepur Rd, Ludhiana, Punjab 141027, India

Email: jagjeetsingh-pbg@pau.edu

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Name: Dr. Gong-You Chen

Department: School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Address: 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China

Email: gyouchen@sjtu.edu.cn

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Name: Dr. John De Leon

Department: Philippine Rice Research Institute

Address: Brgy. Maligaya, PhilRice Central Experiment Station Science City of Muñoz 3119, Nueva Ecija

Email: jcdeleon@philrice.gov.ph

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Name: Dr. Hasil Sembiring

Department: The Center for Food Crops research and development, Indonesia

Address: Indonesian Food Crops Research and Development (ICFORD), Jl. Merdeka No. 147 Bogor 16111

Email: h.sembiring@irri.org