8:30-9:30

Registration

  9:00-10:30

Opening ceremony

10:30-11:10

Prof. Dr. Levent Kurnaz
"The Interconnected Impact: Exploring How the Climate Crisis Affects Biodiversity"
Plenary lecture 1

11:10-11:30

Coffee break

Session 1

Sustainability
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Melek Ozkan

11:30-11:55

Oral Presentation 1: Oral Presentation 1: Prof. Dr. Melek Ozkan
"Sustainable and Renewable Energy from Biomass"

11:55-12:20

Oral Presentation 2 - Oral Presentation 2 - Prof. Dr. Nevin Gul Karaguler
"Exploring Novel Proteins for Sustainable Industrial Processes"

12:20-12:45

Oral Presentation 3 - Prof. Dr. Ozge Karadag
"Promoting Health Equity in the Age of Biotechnology"

12:45-13:30

Lunch break and poster hall visit

Session 2

Sustainable Food and Agriculture
Moderator: Assist. Prof. Bahar YILDIZ KUTMAN

13:30-14:10

Prof. Dr. Hakan Ozkan
“Modern Crop Breeding for Global Food and Nutrition Security”
Plenary lecture 2

14:10-14:25

Oral Presentation 4 - Assoc. Prof. Ceyhun Kayihan
"Single-cell transcriptional profiling in root tissues of Arabidopsis thaliana exposed to boron toxicity at seedling stages"

14:25-14:50

Oral Presentation 5 - Dr. Nihal Oztolan Erol
"Nanoparticle-mediated gene editing: A path towards tailored crop improvement"

14:50-15:00

Short Presentation 1 - Assoc. Prof. Birsen Cevher Keskin
"Comparative proteomic analyses revealed the response mechanism of drought-tolerant and susceptible olive cultivars (Olea europaea L.) under drought stress and recovery"

15:00-15:10

Short Presentation 2 - Abdelhameed Hamdan
"Exploring  aquaporins and dehydrins in barley under drought and salt stresses during early seedling development"

15:10-15:20

Short Presentation 3 - Rifat Bugra Bildiri
"Valorization of steel slag as a safe soil amendment for sustainable crop production"

15:20-15:30

Short Presentation 4 - Aysenur Bayrak
"Lettuce biofortification with selenium and its interactions with sulfur nutrition in an indoor vertical NFT system"

15:30-15:40

Short Presentation 5 -Halis Batuhan UNAL    "Cloning the SARS-CoV-2 structural proteins for transient expression of a VLP-based vaccine candidate in Nicotiana benthamiana"

15:40-16:30

Sponsored Talk by Gübretaş - Oral Presentation 6- Elif Ozlem Guncaldi
"Evaluation of plant growth promoting Rhizobacteria isolated from soils of Turkiye for microbial biofertilizer production"

16:30-17:00

Coffee break and poster hall visit