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* Chungui Lu Assistant Professor in Systems Biology, University of Nottingham * Paul Osmond Associate professor, UNSW Sydney * Erik Murchie Associate Professor of Crop Science, University of

Nottingham * Andrew Jenkins Research Fellow, School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen's University Belfast * Kevin M. Folta Professor of Horticultural Sciences and Plant

Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Florida * Rene Van Acker Professor and Dean of The Ontario Agricultural College, University of Guelph * Lenore Newman Director, Food and

Agriculture Institute, University of The Fraser Valley * Esther Ndumi Ngumbi Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology; African-American Studies, University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign * Evan Fraser Director of the Arrell Food Institute and Professor in the Dept. of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph * Gail Taylor Dean of Life

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