Food, sustainability and plant science - a global challenge
6-7 November 2009, EMBL, Operon Auditorium, Meyerhofstr. 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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| Friday, 6 November | |
| 08:00-08:45 | Registration |
| 08:45-08:50 | Welcome address Iain Mattaj, Director General, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany |
| 08:50-09:00 | Introduction Hermann Bujard, Director, EMBO, Heidelberg, Germany |
| 09:00-10:00 | Keynote lecture Tomorrow's table: organic farming, genetics, and the future of food (pdf) Pamela Ronald, University of California, Davis, CA, USA |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee break |
| Session I: Plant breeding and the maintenance of diversity Chair: Klaus Hahlbrock, MPI for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany |
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| 10:30-11:15 | Historical overview (pdf) Marc Van Montagu, Ghent University, Belgium |
| 11:15-12:00 | Global agriculture and the conservation of crop genetic diversity Sir Peter Crane, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA |
| 12:00-13:00 | Finger-food lunch |
| Session II: Breeding and the molecular genetics that support it Chair: Pamela Ronald, University of California, Davis, CA, USA |
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| 13:00-13.45 | Genetic resources, omics and their potential contribution to enhance conventional plant breeding Lothar Willmitzer, MPI of Molecular Plant Physiology, Golm, Germany |
| 13:45-14:30 | The Wheat Genome Project: laying the foundation for a paradigm shift in wheat breeding (pdf) Catherine Feuillet, French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Clermont-Ferrand, France |
| 14:30-15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:00-15:45 | Rice functional genomics programme in China (pdf) Xue Hong-Wei, Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China |
| 15:45-17:15 | Panel discussion Dani Zamir, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (pdf) Simon Berry, Limagrain UK Limited, Norfolk, UK (pdf) |
| 17:15-18:15 | Evening lecture Global challenges in plant production - A production ecological perspective (pdf) Prem Bindraban, Wageningen University, The Netherlands |
| 18:30-20:00 | Conference dinner at EMBL canteen |
| 20:00-20:45 | After-dinner lecture Biological approaches to enhance food-crop production – A Royal Society study Sir David Baulcombe, University of Cambridge, UK |
| 20:45-21:30 | Drinks
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| Saturday, 7 November |
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| Session III: Enhancing plants by GM Chair: Giles Oldroyd, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK |
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| 09:00-09:45 | Golden Rice on a mission (pdf) Peter Beyer, University of Freiburg, Germany |
| 09:45-10:30 | Economic consequences of Golden Rice and other genetically modified crops (pdf) Matin Qaim, University of Göttingen, Germany |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-11:45 | Release of transgenic crop in centers of origin: the case of transgenic corn in Mexico (pdf) Luis Herrera-Estrella, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute, Irapuato, Mexico |
| 11:45-12:45 | Panel discussion Harry Kuiper, European Food Safety Authority, Parma, Italy (pdf) Marcus Koch, Heidelberg Institute for Plant Science and Central Commission for Biological Safety, Germany |
| 12:45-13:45 | Finger-food lunch |
| Session IV: Public perception and risk assessment Chair: Holger Breithaupt, EMBO reports, Heidelberg, Germany |
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| 13:45-14:30 | Agricultural and environmental risk assessment (pdf) Hans-Jörg Buhk, Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety, Braunschweig, Germany |
| 14:30-15:15 | Perceptions, precaution and participation: reconciling science and society in progress of agricultural biotechnology (pdf) Andy Stirling, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK |
| 15:15-15:45 | The Importance of Being Curious and Responsible Fritz Kuhn, Member of the German Federal Parliament, Berlin, Germany |
| 15:45-16:15 | Coffee break |
| 16:15-17:15 | Panel discussion Inmaculada de Melo-Martin, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA Joyce Tait, Innogen Centre, University of Edinburgh, UK Ania Lichtarowicz, BBC World Service, London, UK |
| 17:15-17:45 | Closing lecture Feeding the planet – Environmental protection through sustainable agriculture (pdf) Klaus Hahlbrock, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany |
| 17:45-18:00 | Closing remarks Hermann Bujard, Director, EMBO, Heidelberg, Germany |
