SICA 2025 :: Programme

Monday, 23 June :: Palazzo Bo

Sala I. Nievo
13:00-14:00	Meeting of the SICA Executive Board
14:00-15:00	Registration and Institutional greetings
Session 1 - Soil health as basis of healthy environment and resilient agricultural systems
15:00-15:40	Keynote Lecture Aki Sinkkonen (Natural Resources Institute of Finland, Turku, Finland) Interconnections between soil and human health
15:40-17:40	Oral presentations
17:40-18:10	Special Keynote Lecture Ilaria Capua (Johns Hopkins University – SAIS Europe and One Health Centre of Excellence at the University of Florida, USA) Circular Health - expanding One Health to be more inclusive and contemporary
18:10	Closing of the conference day
18:30	Welcome spritz

8:00-9:00	Registration and posters mounting and viewing
Session 2 - Maintenance and enhancement of nutrient use efficiency in agricultural systems: promoting natural nutrient cycling and reducing nutrient losses
9:00-9:40	Keynote Lecture Ismail Cakmak (Sabancı University in Istanbul, Turkey) Agricultural solutions for addressing hidden hunger in human populations
9:40-11:00	Oral presentations
11:00-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-13:00	Poster viewing
13:00-14:30	Lunch
Focus group workshop
14:30-16:00	SICA Focus group discussion
16:00-16:30	Presentation of Focus group outcome
16:30-17:00	Coffee break
16:30-18:00	SICA General Assembly
18:00	Closing of the conference day
20:00	Conference Dinner (Isola di Caprera Restaurant )

8:00-9:00	Posters viewing
Session 3 - Plant health and its contribution to the One Health objectives: from plant biochemistry to the food
9:00-9:40	Keynote Lecture Esther van der Knaap (University of Georgia, Athens, USA) Horticultural crop flavor: a trade-off between taste and defense?
9:40-11:00	Oral presentations
11:00-11:40	Coffee break and posters viewing
11:40-13:00	Oral presentations
13:00-14:30	Lunch and posters viewing
Session 4 - Pollution in the agricultural systems: what risks and what solutions
14:30-15:10	Keynote Lecture Roland Weber (POPs Environmental Consulting, Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany) Contamination of the environment by persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and risk to plants/feed and food of animal origin
15:10-16:10	Oral presentations
16:10-16:40	Coffee break
16:40-17:40	Oral presentations
17:40-18:00	Conference closing, awards ceremony, presentation of the XLIV SICA conference