Featuring Kent Bradford, UC Davis; Lisa Newman, DuPont Pioneer; Paul Gepts, UC DAvis; Peter Wenzl, CIMMYT; Molly Jahn, University of Wisconsin; and Gary Atlin, Gates Foundation.
The conference provides a prestigious business platform to meet and to exchange and create novel technologies, commercial applications and partnerships in the field of genomics in the agro and industrial biotech industries.
International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA)
Hyatt Hotel - Manila, Philippines
Key researchers and farmers from each of the three countries will discuss highlights of the research results and share experiences in growing Bt Corn (in the Philippines) and Bt Cotton (in China and India).
The goal of this module is to introduce the basic concepts of using genetic markers to identify QTL and of estimating marker-trait associations, and to expose students to applications of these methodologies.