Day 1: 3rd November 2025

09:00 - 10:00: Registration

10:00 - 11:00: Opening Ceremony: Welcome remarks

• Prof. Dr. Naglaa Abdallah and Dr. Helmy Youssef (Coordinators)
• Prof. Dr. Ayman Amin (Dean of the Faculty)
• Dr. Wiebke Bachman (Director of the DAAD Regional Office Cairo)
• Dr. ….. (The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Egypt)
• Prof. Dr. Mohamed Sami Abdel Sadek (President of Cairo University)
• Prof. Dr. Ayman Ashour (Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research)

11:00 - 11:15: Plenary: International collaborations: steps towards Nobel Prize

Prof. Dr. Mats Hansson (Lund University)

11:15 - 11:30: Group photo

11:30 - 12:00: COFFEE BREAK

12:00 - 13:30: Session I: Plant Biotechnology Applications

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Götz Hensel

• 12:00 - 12:30: Prof. Dr. Naglaa Abdallah – Innovation in agricultural biotechnology to increase agricultural productivity and quality
• 12:30 - 13:00: Dr. Helmy M Youssef – Development of abiotic stress tolerance
• 13:00 - 13:30: TBA

13:30 - 14:30: LUNCH

13:30 - 14:00: Session II: New techniques in Plant Biotechnology

Moderator: TBA

• 14:00 - 14:30: Prof. Dr. Götz Hensel – Precision Mutagenesis in Crops for Functional Genomics and Agronomic Trait Enhancement
• 14:30 - 15:30: TBA

15:30 - 16:00: COFFEE BREAK

16:00 - 17:00: Poster Session