08:00 – 08:50 Registration with coffee and snacks

08:50 – 09:00 Welcome to the Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF) Agri-food Systems Challenge Symposium – Paul Neve and Stig Uggerhøj Andersen

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Session 1: Nutritional value and yield

Chair: Paul Neve

09:00 – 09:30 Keynote Talk – Cathie Martin (Title: Biofortified tomatoes; a new route to vitamin D sufficiency?)
09:30 – 09:45 TBA
09:45 – 10:00 Coffee Break
10:00 – 10:25 Invited Talk – Fernando Geu-Flores (Title: Making bitter lupins sweet)
10:25 – 11:10 Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs): Research and Plant Breeding Perspectives – Michael Broberg Palmgren (UCPH) & Rasmus Hjortshøj (KWS)
11:10 – 12:00 NNF N2CROP Talks – Molecular catalogue of faba bean seeds, faba bean in intercropping systems

11.10-11.20 Jing Zhang A single-cell and spatial atlas of the faba bean seed reveals a cotyledon storage state

11.20-11.30 Ingeborg Bitsch Jensen (Investigations of the Vicia faba Seed Pan-Proteome)

11.30-11.40 Karen Therkelsen (Prediction of Glycosyltransferase activities involved in plant cell wall composition)

11.40-11.50 Brian Christiansen (Bioavailability of Supplemented Iron and Zinc in Faba Bean: INFOGEST In Vitro Digestion and Cellular Uptake)

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break

Panel debate

13:00 – 14:00 Panel debate: Solving future agri-food systems challenges through public–private partnerships

Panelists

Erik Alexandersson — Novo Nordisk Foundation
Derek Bartlem — DLF
Merethe Bagge — Danespo
Tore Johansen — AAK
Agnieszka J. Z. Nielsen — University of Copenhagen

Moderator

Morten Jastrup — Moderator.dk

Session 2: Agroecology for future Agri-Food systems

Chair: Stig Uggerhøj Andersen

14:00 – 14:30 Keynote Talk – Jonathan Storkey (Title: Sustainable crop protection – what does success look like?)
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee Break
15:00 – 15:20 Invited Speaker Jon West (Rothamsted Research)
15:20 – 15:40 Invited Speaker Chloe Maclaren (Title: The ecological yield gap)
15:40 – 17:00 NNF One Crop Health Talks

15.40-16.00 Dorte Bodin Dresbøll (Title: Intercropping faba bean and wheat: Effects on nitrogen fixation, growth and yield)

16.00-16.30 OCH flash talks session

16:30 – 18:00 POSTER SESSION with snacks and drinks
18:30-late Conference dinner (Green Room at Scandic Falkoner)

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08:00 – 08:50 Registration with coffee and snacks

08:50 – 09:00 Conference welcome – Staffan Persson, CPSC Chair

Session 3: Seed biology – feeding the future

Chair: Deyang Xu

09:00 – 09:30 Keynote Talk – Leonie Bentsink (Title: To germinate or not to germinate)

09:30 – 09:45 Nanna Bjarnholt - (Title: Insights into seed metabolism during development, germination and biotic interactions)

09:45 – 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 – 10:40 Invited Talk – Deyang Xu (Title: The ins and outs of glucosinolate seed loading)

10:40 – 10:55 Michael Panting - (Title: Targeted Removal of CI-1A Enhances Protein Digestibility in Barley: From Lab Pipeline to 2026 Field Trial)

10:55 - 11:10 Shuai Zheng - (Title: Towards revealing proteome-wide protein interactions to improve agricultural traits)

11:15 – 12:00 Industry Session: AEGIS - Christoph Dockter (Title: Trait Translation in Cereals) & DLF - Pai Pedas: (Title: From biological discovery to impact)

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break

Session 4: Breeding and prebreeding

Chair. Merethe Bagge

13:00 – 13:30 Keynote Talk – Rod Snowdon (Title: Breeding outside the box to boost neglected crops – A case study in faba bean)

13:30 – 13:45 Pedro Correia - (Title: Grafting in Cereals: From long-distance transport to crop improvement)

13:45 - 14:00 Aristotelis Azariadis - (Title: Toward the domestication of perennial barley: genetic transformation and CRISPR targeting in Hordeum bulbosum)

14:00 – 14:30 Coffee Break

14:30 – 15:00 Keynote Talk – Guido van der Ackerveken (Title: Public-Private Partnerships in Translating Plant Science to Crop Improvement)

15:00 – 15:25 Invited Talk – Kåre Lehmann Nielsen (Title: Breeding for sustainability - NGT potatoes with effective and durable resistance against late blight)

15:25 – 16:15 Industry Session: Carlsberg FIND-IT - Anko Blaakmeer- (Title: Accelerated trait development in sorghum) and

Danespo – Merethe Bagge (Title: Modern potato breeding- Translating research into varieties for sustainable agriculture.)

16:15 – 18:00 POSTER SESSION with snacks and drinks

Session 5: Plants and biotic interactions – foes vs friends

Chair: Staffan Persson

08:00 – 09:00 Registration with coffee and snacks

09:00 – 09:30 Keynote Lecture – Peng Yu (Title: Deconding the Root–Microbiome Interface for Nutrient-Efficient and Climate-Resilient Crops)

09:30 – 09:45 Sagar Kafle - (Title: Improving Genomic Prediction of Late Blight Resistance in Potato by Incorporating Indirect Genetic Effects and Foliage Maturity–Corrected Breeding Values)

09:45 – 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 – 10:40 Invited Speaker – Simona Radutoiu (Title: Fundamental understanding of plant and microbes partnerships enable targeted modifications of crops for sustainable nutrient acquisition)

10:40 – 10:55 Muhammad Awais Zahid - (Title: Translating susceptibility-gene editing into crop resilience: Parakletos from model systems to elite potato cultivars)

10:55 - 11:10 Mai Duy Luu Trinh - (Title: Sustainability of saponin-free quinoa: Impacts on plant defenses against pathogens and pests following genetically saponin removal)

11:10 – 11:35 Invited Speaker –Marek Mutwil (Title: Kingdom-wide comparative transcriptomics reveals deeply conserved and predictable stress response programs across Viridiplantae)

11:35 – 12:00 Invited Speaker – Julie Pedersen (Title: Epidemic spread of soft rot Pectobacteriaceae may indicate early biocontrol potential)

12:00 - 12:10 Closing Remarks and Poster Awards - Staffan Persson

12:10 – 12:30 Lunch

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