Samson Ugwuanyi serves as a lecturer at the University of Nigeria Nsukka and is pursuing a doctoral degree in the Department of Plant Breeding at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, currently in his third year of study. He has received recognition through various awards and scholarships, including those from esteemed organizations like the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Japan Student Services Organization. With a portfolio encompassing five co-authored research articles, his academic pursuits center on leveraging genomic tools for enhancing crop improvement and breeding. Presently, his project focusses on unraveling the genetic basis of two major antinutrients, vicine and convicine, in faba bean. Through his ongoing research, he aims to elucidate the underlying genetic mechanisms to facilitate improved breeding strategies and the development of faba bean varieties with zero vicine and convicine.

Kishore Gali has more than 15 years of post-doctoral experience in genetic and genomic research, and computational biology as related to pulse crops and canola in western Canada. Has expertise in different aspects of molecular breeding of pea including developing a variety of mapping populations and use of contemporary genotyping technologies for marker-assisted trait introgression and predictive breeding.

Arineh is an analytical chemist with strengths in applying LC-MS-based proteomic approaches to detect and measure proteins in grains and food products. Her primary interest is in exploring the antinutritional and nutritional proteins in grain legumes and understanding the impact of the genetics and environment on the levels of these proteins. She is an early career postdoctoral researcher within CSRIO Agriculture and Food, and her current research aims to enhance the quality traits of lupin grain by employing multi-omics approaches.

Jasmine Staples is a 2nd Year PhD Student at the John Innes Centre in the UK, funded by the Wellcome Trust. Her research focuses on improvement of nutritional traits in grasspea, primarily understanding synthesis of the toxin 𝞫-ODAP and increasing sulfur amino acid content, and uses a combination of biochemical and bioinformatic approaches.

PhD student, study lupin flavour