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9.00 - 9.15 Welcome and Outline of Workshop / I. Young and H. Hirt
9.15 – 9.45 Global Climate Change Projections / Y. Wada
9.45 – 10.15 Land Restoration and the Regreening of Saudi Arabia / C. Clarke
10.15 – 10.45 Coffee
10.45 – 11.15 Ocean Health and Climate Change: Lessons from the Arabian Coral Reefs / M. Aranda
11.15 – 11.45 The Smart Health Initiative / I. Gallouzi
11.45 - 12.30 The PlantACT! Initiative - A Global Think Tank on Agriculture and Climate Change / H. Heribert
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.30 Soil Health / I. Young
14.30 - 15.00 Saudi Soil Atlas Project / M. Saad
15.00 – 15.30 Improving Photosynthetic Activity and It's Role in Tackling Climate Change / A. Weber
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee
16.00 - 17.30 Round Table Discussion: Climate Change and Science / J. Bailey-Serres, G. Berg, I. Gallouzi, M. Aranda, H. Hirt
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9.00 – 9.45 The Climate and Crop Conundrum / J. Bailey-Serres
9.45 - 10.15 Every Little Helps — The Case for GM Wheat / B. Wulff
10.15 - 10.45 Coffee
10.45 – 11.30 Understanding Plant-Pathogen Interactions / T. Nuernberger
11.30 – 12.00 Tackling stomatal signaling in changing climate/ H. Kollist
12.00 - 13.30 Lunch
12.15 – 14.00 Women in Science Lunch Session - Building 4, Level 5, Room 5220 / J. Bailey-Serres, G. Berg, M. Chodasiewicz
14.00 - 14.45 Tackling Abiotic Stress Signaling / P. Rodriguez
14.45 – 15.30 Tackling Native Soil Microbiomes for Plant Health / J. Raaijmakers
15.30 – 16.00 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Native Genome Project / R. Wing
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee
16.30 – 17.00 Ecological Restoration in Arid Ecosystems - What would be the contributions of the systemic approach? / H. Boukcimh
17.00 - 17.45 Solutions From Tackling the Plant Microbiome / G. Berg
18.00 Cocktail & Refreshments at Building 19, Hall 1