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The Scientific Committee approved during ILS5 conference, June 2026

• Alfonso Clemente, CSIC, Granada, Spain – alfonso.clemente@eez.csic.es
• Diego Rubiales, CSIC, Cordoba, Spain – diego.rubiales@ias.csic.es
• Eric Bishop von Wettberg, University of Vermont, USA – Eric.Bishop–Von–Wettberg@uvm.edu
• Karen Cichy, Michigan State University, USA – karen.cichy@usda.gov
• Klaudija Carović–Stanko, University of Zagreb, Croatia – kcarovic@agr.hr
• Lars Kamphuis, CCDM, Australia – lars.kamphuis@curtin.edu.au
• Maria Carlota Vaz Patto, ITQB, Oeiras, Portugal – cpatto@itqb.unl.pt
• Marion Prudent, INRAE, France – marion.prudent@inrae.fr
• Millicent Smith, School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability, Australia – millicent.smith@uq.edu.au
• Nelson Nazzicari, CREA, Lodi, Italy – nelson.nazzicari@crea.gov.it
• Pei Xu, Jiliang University, China – peixu@cjlu.edu.cn
• Peter Smykal, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic – petr.smykal@upol.cz
• Pietro Iannetta, The James Hutton Institute, Scotland UK – pete.iannetta@hutton.ac.uk
• Salma Rouichi, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco – salma.rouichi@um6p.ma
• Shivali Sharma, Global Crop Diversity Trust, Germany – shivalipbg@gmail.com
• Stefano Pavan, University of Bari, Italy – stefano.pavan@uniba.it
• Sukhjiwan Kaur, La Trobe University, Australia – sukhjiwan.kaur@latrobe.edu.au
• Tom Warkentin, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada – tom. warkentin@usask.ca

The list of the members of the previous (2023-2026) Scientific Committee is available here.

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Event associated with the Second ILS Conference

Team 1: FC GWASgow Celtimorgan

(geneticists, omicists and breeders)

Team Captain: Paolo Annicchiarico
Faruk Toklu
Kevin McPhee
Matthew Nelson
Mentag Rachid
Pedro Fevereiro
Reece Tollenaere
Sofia Duque
Nelson Nazzicari

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Team 2: FC Plantstresser Prohibited

(all those dealing with abiotic and biotic and any other kind of stresses)

Team Captain: Weidong Chen
Eric von Wettberg
Christophe Le May
Margarida Sampaio
Nuno Almeida
Rama Harinath Reddy Dadu
Stefano Pavan
Susana Leitão
Yasir Mehmood

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Team 3: FC Agrobarcelonomy

(agroecologists, agronomists, agroeconomists…)

Team Captain: Laurent Bedoussac
Branko Cupina
Claudio Porqueddu
Mahmoud Pouryousef
Miguel Oliveira
Nicolas Carton
Svetlana Vujić

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Team 4: FC Qualitians Healista

(all those dealing with food and feed quality, nutrition and health benefits)

Team Captain: Alfonso Clemente
Davide Martins
Dominic Lemken
Jose C. Jimenez-Lopez
Michael Dickinson
Sara Costa
Tom Warkentin

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The winners!

Final match: GWASgow Celtimorgan – Agrobarcelonomy: 3-2

The International Legume Society website is currently curated by:

Nelson Nazzicari, Ph.D.
nelson.nazzicari [at] crea.gov.it
Bioinformatician
CREA - Council for Agricultural Research and Analysis of Agricultural Economics
Research Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture, Viale Piacenza, 29 - 26900 Lodi