2018 Syngenta International Conference was held in NAU
The 13th Syngenta International Conference held in 13-14th October 2018 in Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU) in China. This annual conference was organized by Syngenta, and was supported by the College of Sciences, NAU. The conference was chaired by Dr Yucheng Gu, the principal scientist and project director of Syngenta, who also was honored as guest professor at NAU in 2015. Prof. Wei-Chun Dong, the Vice President of NAU attended the meeting and delivered a speech of welcome. Prof. Weihua Zhang, the Dean of College of Sciences, gave the opening speech and briefly introduced the research cooperation between NAU and Syngenta. The participants and guests of this conference include Prof. Dong Jiang, the Executive Vice-Dean of Academy of Science of NAU, Dr. Steve Smith, Head of Chemical Technologies and Operation, Syngenta R&D, and many of experts and students from various functions in Syngenta and Syngenta collaborators, including NAU.
This year’s event comprises the 13th Syngenta International Conference; the 13th Syngenta Postgraduate Student Workshop; three parallel seminars, namely The 3rd Syngenta Agricultural Science Symposium, the 2nd Natural Products Drug Innovation Symposium, and The 1st Syngenta Environmental Sciences Symposium; and the 2nd Syngenta Young Excellent Scientist Seminar.
The purposes of this series of annual conferences, seminars and workshops are to provide platforms on which to share information in many scientific disciplines relating to agricultural sciences and explore business opportunities to collaborate.
It is said that Syngenta is one of the world’s largest agrochemical producer and top three in seed sales. Syngenta is committed to providing innovative solutions to sustainable agricultural production and development worldwide, specifically contributing to crop productivity improvement, environmental protection and human health and well-being improvement. It is of vital importance to the global plant protection fields. It matches well with the research direction and objectives of NAU.
