Welcome to SARA
On behalf of the Organizing Committee of SARA, we are delighted to invite you to the symposium
that will be held in Izmir at Ege University, Faculty of Agriculture between September 23rd and 26th,
2019.
The aim of the SARA symposium is to bring scholars from various disciplines together to discuss key
topics related to the Anatolian history of agricultural production and the current themes of seed
science in Anatolia.
Leading world key scientific researchers from major universities, research institutions, and academic centers will present a broad spectrum of information in the area of Archaeobotany, Seed Science, Archaeology, Ethnobotany, DNA and Plant Genetic Resources.
| Researcher | Institution | Sessions |
| Prof. Dr. Amy Bogaard | University of Oxford School of Archaeology | Archaeobotany |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr. Andrew Fairbairn | University of Queensland School of Social Science Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences | Archaeobotany |
| Prof. Dr. Laura Sadori | Università degli Studi “La Sapienza” di Roma, Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale | Archaeobotany |
| Prof. Dr. Andreas Schachner | German Archaeological Institute | Archaeology |
| Prof. Dr. Avi Gopher | Tel Aviv University Archaeology | Archaeology |
| Prof. Dr. Isabella Caneva | University of Salento Post-Graduate School of Archaeology | Archaeology |
| Prof. Dr. Marcella Frangipane | Università degli Studi “La Sapienza” di Roma, Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità | Archaeology |
| Prof. Dr. Assaf Distelfeld | Tel Aviv University The George S.Wise Faculty of Life Sciences | DNA |
| Prof. Dr. Hakan Özkan | Çukurova University Faculty of Agriculture | DNA |
| Dr. Fusun Ertuğ | Ethnobotany | |
| Prof. Dr. Neslihan Yeşim Yalçın Mendi | Çukurova University Faculty of Agriculture | Plant genetic resources |
| Dr. Vehbi Eser | Plant Breeders Sub-Union of TURKEY | Plant genetic resources |
| Prof. Dr. Alptekin Karagöz | Aksaray University | Seed Science |
| Birte Boelt | Aarhus University Dept. of Agroecology | Seed Science |
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