Every year, Agrogene organizes its seminar in order to serve as a meeting place and information exchange on new technologies at the cutting-edge of plant biotechnology, in particular in genomics. The 7th seminar will approach themes such as plant genomics, gene isolation and identification, molecular markers for diagnostic, bioinformatics, etc. The 7th seminar will be held February 25-26, 1999 in Paris, France.

Three types of presentations will be given: technologies, applications, perspectives and opportunities.

Here is a list of some of the speakers who will attend the meeting :

J. DICKS - John Innes Center - United Kingdom
"Bioinformatics for comparative genome analysis"

A. GRANER - IPK Gatersleben - Germany
"Barley breeding : from genetics to genomics"

E. HUTTNER - Biogemma - France
"Plant genomics, French perspectives: the Genoplante
programme"

P. LANGRIDGE - University of Adelaide - Australia
"ITEC and cereal genomics"

PEAgGen spokensperson - USA
"DNA/RNA Real time quantitative PCR: a tool for genomics" (title to be confirmed)

D. MATTHEWS - Cornell University - USA
"Crop genome databases, a US perspective"

J. OPENSHAW - Pioneer Hi-Bred Int. - USA
"QTL detection and MAS" (title to be confirmed)

G. PENNER - Monsanto - USA
"Genomics in wheat"

G. PLASTOW - PIC Group - United Kingdom
"First applications of molecular tools in pig breeding"

P. REYMOND - University of Lausanne - Switzerland
"Analysis of plant defense in Arabidopsis using cDNA
microarrays"

P. ROUZE - Institut de Biotechnologie des Flandres - Belgium
"From data on the Arabidopsis model genome to knowledge in
plants"

S. TINGEY - DuPont Agricultural Biotechnology - USA
"Gene discovery for agricultural biotechnology"

PEAgGen spokensperson - USA
"Bioinformatics" (title to be confirmed)

CONTACT FOR REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION

AGROGENE
Vincent WICKAERT
620 rue Blaise Pascal - F-77555 Moissy Cramayel - FRANCE
Tel +33 1 64 13 31 80 Fax +33 1 64 13 31 81
http://www.seminar.agrogene.com
vincent.w@agrogene.com

REGISTRATION FEES

3 500 FF HT for attendees from private companies
3 000 FF HT for attendees from public institutions

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