15^th Annual Conference on Crop Science and Agriculture November 18-19, 2019 Courtyard by Marriot Bali Seminyak Resort | Bali, Indonesia

Yusuf Leonard Henuk is a Professor in the Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture at University of Sumatera Utara (USU), Medan, Indonesia. He received a Bachelor’s degree (S1: ‘Sarjana’) from the Faculty of Animal Science, the University of Nusa Cendana in Indonesia from 1980-1984. He obtained Master in Rural Science (M.Rur.Sc.) from the University of New England from 1991 – 1995 and continued Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from the University of Queensland from 1998 – 2001. Both in Australia. He was a twice Visiting Professor to the Department of Poultry Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA (September – December 2010 & 2017). Prof.Henuk has published many articles in international journal (e.g. World’s Poultry Science Journal) and has been serving as an Organizing Committee Member and performed as a “Keynote Speaker”such as 25th World Poultry Congress (“Invited Speaker”: China National Convention Center, 05 – 09 September, 2016, Beijing, China);); 15th Annual Conference on Crop Science and Agriculture (“Keynote Speaker”: November 18 – 19, 2019 Bali, Indonesia); and World Agriculture and Horticulture Conference (“Keynote Speaker” April 20-21, 2020, Dubai, UAE).

Agriculture Science & Animal Science

Rick Bieber is a no-till farmer from the center of the United States of America. He farms in a 425mm precipitation zone on 5000 acres (2200 hectares) of cropland and also has 5000 acres (2200 hectares) of native rangeland for a 500-head cow/calf operation. He has been in a continuous low disturbance no-till system for 30 years. His main crops include hard red spring wheat, hard red winter wheat, corn, flax, chickpeas, sunflowers, and alfalfa. He has been using cover crops for the last 18 years to further his unending quest for soil health. Rick is intensely interested in keeping the farm operation economically viable and gets to the heart of a problem quickly before it becomes a major problem. Rick is a strong advocate of diverse crop rotations and understands how to implement the ‘5 Soil Care Principles’ for a successful soil health system to exist. He has been a popular speaker at a number of no-till conferences throughout the United States over the last 20 years. He has also spoken at many conferences through out the world including Great Britain, Finland, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Australia. He served as the President of The South Dakota No-till Association for 12 years and is presently on the Board of Directors for No-till on the Plains. To farm is to care for the “Skin of the Earth” Rick considers himself a “Soil Care Taker” rather than a farmer.

Soil Research and Agriculture

Prof. Dr. Iqbal Munir has completed his Ph.D. at the age of 34 years from Japan and postdoctoral studies from OPU Japan and MSU USA. Currently Prof. Iqbal Munir is working as Director of the Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, the University of Agriculture Peshawar-Pakistan and running several projects on Biofuel Production using transgenic technology. He has expertise in enzymology and plant biotechnology. He has the honor to discover a novel enzyme of industrial importance (NADP+-dependent ADH) and was granted with multiple international awards. He has established the Biochemical and Molecular Division at the Institute that has been producing numerous Ph.D./MPhil and BS graduates, training scientists/faculty of different research/education institutes and providing analytical services to agro-business industry and research/ education institutes of the country. He has published more than 100 research papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute, and other Board of Governers bodies.

Enzymology and Plant Biotechnology

Aaron is an entrepreneur working globally across the Agriculture and technology nexis specializing in Go to Market strategies, farm operation innovation planning, and advising corporates, investors, governments, NGO's, and startups through successful AgTech integrations and best farming practices across the supply chain. Aaron is the founder of AgTech Insight and has been a co-founder of AgTech startups in both hardware and software development with global operation. He has become a leader in the AgTech movement and speaks to groups around the world.

Agriculture Technology

Balaji Vasudevan is currently Plant Pathology/Plant Biology Lead at GreenLight Biosciences, Inc located in RTP, NC, USA. He earned his Master of Science in Plant Biotechnology in Chennai, India in 1994, and his Ph.D. in Plant Biotechnology from Madurai Kamaraj University, India in 2002, working with Prof. Karuppannan Veluthambi. In his thesis work, he developed transformation and regeneration system for black gram (urad bean, Vigna mungo), improved Agrobacterium-mediated transformation efficiency in rice and black gram by manipulating binary vectors with key Agrobacterium vir genes, cloned, sequenced, molecular characterized DNA B of a geminivirus Mung bean yellow mosaic virus-Vigna (MYMV-Vig), developed agroinfection based viral assays, identified and showed key viral gene targets for pathogen derived resistance to MYMV-Vig. His Ph.D. research was published in 5 international journals After completing his Ph.D., Vasudevan went on to do his post-doctoral studies at Tel-Aviv University in the lab of Guido Sessa on molecular dissection of plant-bacterial interactions with an aim to identify disease resistance genes. Vasudevan used tomato and Pseudomonas/Xanthomonas system for his research to address bacterial speck and leaf spot diseases. He also worked on notorious Gram-positive bacterium Clavibacter that causes bacterial wilt and canker in tomato. He used cutting edge technologies like microarray, SSH and VIGS for this research and was the first researcher to identify tomato genes that were differentially regulated under Clavibacter attack. Vasudevan published 5 papers in international journals.Vasudevan accepted Plant Pathology/Plant Biology Lead position at GreenLight Biosciences, Inc. His work focuses on development and application of dsRNA mediated exogenous/spray on RNAi to combat pathogens and pests in crop plants. Vasudevan has 16 refereed international publications in top plant science journals, an editorial board member for 2 and invited reviewer for 8 reputed journals.

Agrobacterium biology | Crop transformation | Genome Editing | Cell Biology | Plant tissue culture |Disease Diagnostics | Phytopathogen/Plant-Microbial Assay Development | Molecular plant-microbe interactions | Plant Pathology | Plant molecular biology |VIGS |RNAi (transgenic & exogenous spray on).

Penelope Nagel – COO/President Persistence Data Mining, Inc. Penelope is a 9th generation farmer and brings extensive experience with agriculture, asset management, project management, funding, commercial and private money lending, Penelope is skilled at process reengineering to improve profitability and loss mitigation. Penelope received her MBA from the University of Phoenix in 2006 and holds a BA degree in Economics from San Diego State University.

Agriculture