Science Committee

Chairs: Jerry Zhu (USA) and Andrea Clavijo McCormick (NZ)

LOC/APACE leader: Kye Chung Park (NZ)

ISCE leader: Robert Raguso (USA)

Science Committee Members below.  To view the members bios please click here.

Adriana Najar-Rodriguez
Plant & Food Research
New Zealand

Aijun Zhang
United States Department
of Agriculture
USA

Alvin Kah-Wei Hee
University of Putra
Malaysia

Andrea Clavijo McCormick
Ministry of Primary Industries
New Zealand

Andrew Hayes
University of the
Sunshine Coast, Australia

Claudia Lange
Manaaki Whenua -
Landcare Research, New Zealand

Dong Ho Cha
United States Department
of Agriculture, USA

Jeremy Alison
Canadian Forest Service, Canada

Junwei (Jerry) Zhu
United States Department
of Agriculture, USA

Magali Proffit
Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), France

Maria Carolina Blassioli Moraes
Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brasil

Michael Georg Rostás
University of Göttingen, Germany

Naoki Mori
Kyoto University, Japan

Nicoletta Faraone
Arcadia University, Canada

Paul Szyszka
University of Otago, New Zealand

Renee Borges
Indian Institute of Science, India

Ricardo Machado
 University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Robert A. Raguso
Cornell University, USA

Suk-Ling Wee
University Kebangsaan Malaysia

Sulav Paudel
Agresearch, New Zealand

Umar Lubanga
Agriculture Victoria, Australia

Wei Xu
Murdoch University, Australia

Xue-xin Chen
Zhejiang University, China

Yonggen Lou
Zhejiang University, China

ISCE-APACE 2025

18-22 August 2025
Christchurch Town Hall, Christchurch

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