Arrival Day . 13 April 2024
All Day
Arrival at Cairo/Sphinx airpots, and hotel transfer
16:00
Registration
18:00
Dinner
19:00
Pyramids Sound and Light Show (Paid by participants/Optional)
Day One . 14 April 2024
8:30
Registration continued
9:30
Welcome: Representatives of AvH, IGZ and CU
10:00
Opening keynote address: “Rhizosphere - a one health concept of coevolution in diversity for sustainable agriculture”
10:45 - 12:15
Session 1: The journey from rhizosphere to microbiome: the history and development
12:15 - 13:15
Break
13:15 - 15:15
Session 2: The plant microbiome: recent updates on in vitro culturomics and domestication approaches
15:15 - 15:45
Break
15:45 - 17:15
Posters Group 1: Short oral presentations of the juniors posters, related to topics of sessions 1 and 2
19:00
Get together dinner
Day Two . 15 April 2024
9:00 - 11:15
Session 3: High-resolution of core microbiota and their functions: New generations of OMICS technologies and bioinformatics
11:20 - 11:50
Break
11:50 - 14:00
Session 4: Future prospects and challenges of SynCom in situ delivery and modification under field and greenhouse conditions
14:00 - 15:00
Break
15:00 - 17:00
Session 5: Plant microbiome mechanisms to alleviate biotic and abiotic stresses towards increasing sustainability and productivity of future stressed-agriculture
17:00 - 18:30
Posters Group 2: Short oral presentations of the juniors posters, related to topics of sessions 3, 4 and 5
19:00
Dinner
Day Three . 16 April 2024
9:00 - 11:15
Session 6: The plant microbiome structure/architecture for achieving resilient plants in sustainable crop production
11:15 - 11:45
Break
11:45 - 13:45
Session 7: Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Forum
13:45 - 14:45
Break
14:45 - 15:25
Session 8: DAAD, information sessions on DAAD programmes
15:30 - 17:30
Session 9:
Kolleg discussions and conclusions
Humboldt Research Hub: The plant microbiome research/development and sustainable agriculture in Africa (setting up)
Posters’ prizes
19:00
Gala Dinner and Farewell
Day Four . 17 April 2024
All Day
Departure Or:
Optional extra day/days (upon request, covered by the participants and arranged by the tour agency) to visit:
The Giza Grand Museum, Giza Pyramid area, Saqqara Necropolis, the National Museum, the Museum of Civilizations, the Holy City and Old Cairo
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