Invited speakers
"Structuring the biodiversity scene - policy landscape towards global sustainibility" (Introductory Keynote)
- Anne Larigauderie, DIVERSITAS International, Paris, France
"Friend or foe? A review of how biodiversity impacts human health and diseases" (Introductory Keynote)
- Kate E. Jones, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, UK
- Patricia Howard, University of Kent of Canterbury, UK & Wageningen University, Netherlands
- Aaron Bernstein, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Nina Buchmann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Emile Frison, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research/Bioversity International, Rome, Italy
"Conservation and utilization of Plant Genetic Resources: Achievements and challenges"
- Andreas Graner, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
- Petra Döll, Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
- Elise Demeulenaere, National Museum of Natural History (MNMH) / Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France
- Sybille van den Hove, MEDIAN / Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, University of Barcelona, Valldoreix / Barcelona, Spain
- Christoph Görg, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental research (UFZ), Halle, Germany
"Modelling the dynamics of metacommunities: a new approach for investigating biodiversity patterns i a fragmented world"
- Jean-Marc Guarini, Institut écologie et environnement - Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France
- Beate Jessel, President, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Bonn, Germany
- Thomas Elmqvist, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Michael McClain, UNESCO-Institute for Water Education, Delft, Netherlands
- Ralf Döring, vti - Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries, Hamburg, Germany
- Gabriel Ricardo Nemogá Soto, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
- Antje Boetius, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany
- Jay Stachowicz, The Stachowicz Lab, University of California, Davis, USA
- Angelika Brandt, University of Hamburg, Germany
- Salman Hussein, Scottish Agricultural College, Edinburgh, UK
- Brendan Fisher, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, USA
- Helmut Hillebrand, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), University of Oldenburg, Germany
- Jörg Rekittke, University of Singapore, Singapore
- Sven Klimpel, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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