Audrey Gueniche Ph.D
Audrey GUENICHE obtained her Pharmacist degree and her PhD degree in skin biology more than 23 years ago. She is an expert on immunology and microbiology. Her main expertise is on skin topical treatment and food supplement for skin and hair health, especially using probiotics, natural extract and bacterial extracts. She is currently a senior clinical expert in LOREAL RESEARCH. She has a complete experience from the actives through vitro evaluations/ preclinical studies to clinical trials. Her passion is to always reinvent evaluation and find new fields of area in term of actives to promote.
She has published over 110 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 5 chapters in books, 2 specials issues in journal where she was the invited editor. She presented in over 80 international congresses and additionally she was personally invited to give more than 35 keynote lectures.
Catherine O'Neill
Justine Mannering
Steven Adams
Steve holds the position of Research and Technology Director and has responsibility for all of Plant Impact’s R&D activities, focused on crop enhancement to create foliar spray and seed treatment products that growers can rely on to increase the yield and quality of their crops. With its agricultural business expertise Plant Impact find efficient, cost effective ways to offer their solutions to growers, worldwide.
Steve has been with the company for 8 years. Prior to joining Plant Impact he was an academic and held the position of Principle Investigator and Protected Crops Commodity Specialist at Warwick HRI, University of Warwick (formerly Horticulture Research International), where he led a team focusing on the physiology of glasshouse crops. He has as a degree in Horticulture and a PhD from the University of Reading.
Professor Robert Edwards
Robert Edwards qualified with a BSc in Biochemistry (Bath University) and a PhD in Environmental Toxicology (St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School, University of London). His interests are focussed on the biotransformation of synthetic compounds and natural products in plants and the manipulation of these pathways for applications in crop protection. These interests have been developed through working in both the private and public sector in the UK (Schering Agrochemicals) and USA (Noble Foundation), with an independent research group established in 1991 in the Biology Department at the University of Durham. In 2008 he became the Head of Biological Sciences at Durham and in 2010 took up a joint position as Chief Scientist at the UK’s Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera) and a chair in Crop Protection in the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, University of York. To further consolidate his interests in basic and applied agrifood research, in March 2014 he took up post as the Head of Agriculture at Newcastle where he continues to direct personal research programmes in crop protection, with a specific focus on the control of wild grasses in cereal crops. Outreach and industrial roles in the farming sector include Chair of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society’s Farmer Scientist Network and the Director of the Institute for Agrifood Research and Innovation formed in 2014 between Newcastle University and Fera Science Ltd. He is currently the Head of the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences at Newcastle.
Jean Pierre Huby
DuPont de Nemours Dame Marie les Bois Field Station (37 France)
- Field Technician (1985-1989) for herbicide and insecticide products.
DuPont de Nemours Cernay Plant Manufacturing (68 France)
- Part of Formulation development team on LS project (pan WG) (1989-1994)
DuPont de Nemours Nambsheim ERDC (68 France)
- Formulation innovation lab. Focused on bio optimisation by selection of co-formulants.
- Coauthor of patent on dry surfactant for herbicide corn offer.
- Coauthor of patent on Sunflower Tolerant inbred lines to tribenuron-methyl.
- Application technology Ing. Tech for EMEA focussing on the key steps from the packaging to target site. Development of methodology to assess the feature of mixture like robustness of formulation in water, retention on target leaf, uptake...
- Application technology watching, field application support to our internal and external customers.
- Technical resource of field plot application sprayers (self-propelled, linear, high speed, back pack...) and indoor tunnel sprayer.
- Part of ECPA working group on LWA and on CTS industry requirements for ISO standard definition.
- Develop competency on adjuvants impact on active substance efficacy.
Dr Gregory Kemmitt
Dr. Gregory Kemmitt has been part of the Corteva Agriscience (Agriculture Division of DowDupont) disease management R&D program for 24 years. He has held multiple roles within both the discovery and product development functions with a wide range of experience spanning early stage lead identification through to post launch product re-registration. As a current member of the Corteva Fungicide Global Business Line Management Team, he has responsibility for technical input into the short and long term strategy and vision for the Corteva fungicide portfolio. He is an active member of the FRAC Steering Committee and a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. Kemmitt received a bachelor of science degree in Applied Plant Science from Wye College, University of London and a doctorate degree in plant pathology from the University College of North Wales.
Doug Roberts
Doug Roberts received an MSci from the University of Bristol in 2010 and then a PhD under the guidance of Prof Russell Cox at the University of Bristol and the University of Hannover. After completing his PhD in 2014 he joined the group of Prof Greg Challis as postdoc, trying to develop genome mining approaches to discover novel natural products for the use in agrochemicals in collaboration with Syngenta.
Paul Wilmes
