From: 24/08/2008 until: 27/08/2008
ABIC2008 Conference: "Agricultural biotechnology for a competitive and sustainable future"
The theme for ABIC 2008 will be "Agricultural Biotechnology for a competitive and sustainable future." At a time when global agricultural faces significant challenges, an in depth discussion of how agbiotech can influence the sustainability of global agriculture while maintaining competitiveness is both timely and necessary.
Present session themes include (among others):
- Agbiotech: The sustainability challenge facing society (plenary sessions)
- Coexistence in agricultural supply chains
- The role of agbiotech innovation for national and international competitiveness
- Biofuels and bioenergy biotechnology research
- Seed and reproductive biotechnology
- Molecular pharming in plants and animals
- Developments in plant genetic transformation
- Functional foods, nutrition, nutraceuticals and bioactives
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Location: University College, Cork, Ireland
Event
- [24/08/2008]
ABIC2008 Conference: "Agricultural biotechnology for a competitive and sustainable future" - [24/06/2008]
First Global Conference on GMO Analysis - [12/06/2008]
12th ICABR Conference: The Future of Agricultural Biotechnology: Creative Destruction, Adoption, or Irrelevance? - [12/05/2008]
Planet Diversity Conference - [12/05/2008]
Fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP/MOP-4) - [24/04/2008]
Workshop on Post Market Environmental Monitoring of Genetically Modified Plants - From Data to Conclusions – Next Steps towards Monitoring Practice - [23/04/2008]
Workshop on sampling for GMO traceability in the agri-food and feed chain - [02/04/2008]
International conference on Implications of GM-Crop cultivation at large spatial scales (GMLS 2008) - [20/02/2008]
16th session of the Eurofins International Seminar - [05/02/2008]
Co-Extra Annual Meeting
