Inaugural lectures: tropical forest ecology - plant breeding

Inaugural lectures:
From tropical forest ecology and agriculture to plant breeding

Monday, 23 May 2022, 10:00 - 12:00
Campus Coupure, auditorium E4

The Faculty of Bioscience Engineering at Ghent University has the pleasure to invite you to the inaugural lectures of prof. dr. Eduardo de la Pena, prof. dr. Steven Maenhout and prof. dr. Wannes Hubau.
 
Followed by a panel discussion moderated by prof. dr. ir. Dirk Reheul.
 
After the inaugural event, a sandwich lunch is provided in the Agora (building E).

The new professors and their research areas...

Prof. dr. Eduardo de la Pena
Tropical and subtropical agriculture, crop protection, agrodiversity, agroecology

Prof. dr. Steven Maenhout
Plant breeding, quantitative genetics, phenotypic data analysis, genomewide prediction

Prof. dr. Wannes Hubau
Tropical forest ecology, carbon balance, wood anatomy, vegetation history, palaeoecology