Malgorzata JedryczkaDr. Jedryczka is head and full professor of the Dept of Pathogen Genetics and Plant Resistance, Institute of Plant Genetics of the Polish Academy of Sciences where she was the Founder and first Head of the International Doctoral Study Program. She hs received multiple international awards in recognition of her work and her over 200 scientific contributions have been published in reputed international journals. She developed the System for Forecasting Disease Epidemics (SPEC) which has been implemented at the country level, thanks to a collaboration with DuPont (currently: Corteva). It is the largest in Europe and the third largest decision support system for plant protection in the world, based on aerobiological and molecular methods. In cooperation with the companies Bayer, Dalgety and Syngenta, she modified and popularized the petal test for predicting the infection of oilseed rape by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (stem rot) Read More Read Less