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Welcome to the third annual AgriGenomics World Congress which was held in Brussels the administrative centre of the European Union. This year's coverage has been expanded to include advances in both plant and animal genomics.
AgriGenomics is the detailed study of the genetic makeup of plants and how all the genes work together to produce the crop. Recently there has been great interest in genetically engineering plants to optimize yields and their use in bio-fuels. There is also focus on the alteration of certain genes to increase plant resistance towards disease and infection. So, now is a good time for scientists, business people, bio-ethicists and patent experts from around the globe to come together and catch up with the latest developments in this fast expanding field.
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Keynote Speakers |
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 Martin B Dickman
Professor and Director
Institute for Plant Genomics and Biotechnology
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 Jim Dunwell
Professor
University of Reading
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 Richard Flavell
Chief Scientific Officer
Ceres
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 Steve Kemp
Professor
University of Liverpool
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 Andrew Paterson
Professor
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory
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Agenda Topics:
- RNA silencing mechanisms in plants
- The use of microarrays and bioinformatics
- Optimisation of growth for food and biofuel
- Enhancing plant resistance to disease
- Disease resistance in livestock
- Genetic engineering to increase yield from livestock
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Distinguished Faculty
Vladimir Brukhin Post-Doctoral Researcher, Aberystwyth University
C. S. Prakash Professor, Tuskegee University
Stefan Scholten Visiting Scientist, University of Oxford
Vivian Moses Professor, Kings College London
Petr Horin Professor, University of Vetinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Jens Katzek BIO Mitteldeutschland
Yiguo Hong Research Leader, University of Warwick
Beat Keller Professor, Institute of Plant Biology
Paul Li Group Leader, Simon Fraser University
Georg Haberer Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences
Miguel Perez-Enciso Professor, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Graham King Research leader, Rothamsted Research
Ann Bruce Senior Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh
Catherine Ernst Associate Professor, Michigan State University
Mansood Hadi Director, Joint BioEnergy Institute
Eve Ramery Post-Doc, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liege
Nitsara Karoonuthaisiri Head of Microarray Laboratory, National Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
Wibool Piyawattanametha Research Scientist, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) |
Sponsorship and Exhibition Opportunities
Aaron Woodley, Exhibition Manager
a.woodley@selectbiosciences.com
+44 (0)1787 315129 |