EUCARPIA - European Association for Research on Plant Breeding
Grand Hotel Adriatic - Opatija, Croatia
Genetic resources in maize and sorghum - B73 and Mo17 sequence data, high-resolution mapping populations - Internet genomic databases and post genome and phenotypic publicly accessible data - Breeding for specific traits (complex traits, breeding for quality, resistance...
International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB)
Trieste, Italy
Participants must have a basic working knowledge of biochemistry and molecular biology, a basic familiarity with computer uses and a need for DNA or protein sequence analysis for their ongoing research. Apply by 27 January 2011.
Goals: Enhance the seed industry sector in Africa, increase the inter-intra collaboration in both field of seed industry and agricultural biotechnology, propose Centers of Excellence in the field of plant breeding and biotechnology in Africa
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Focus on tropical environments; ecology of virus emergence; virus influence on host fitness in nature: negative, neutral, or positive; landscape influences on virus ecology; modeling plant-virus-vector interactions and their ecological consequences
Les Diablerets Conference Center - Les Diablerets, Switzerland
Will cover basic plant research related to photosynthesis, including the regulation, partitioning, and engineering of carbon assimilation. Approaches that range from post-genomic technologies and systems biology through fundamental biochemistry, physiology and molecular...
Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES)
Muswellbrook, NSW, Australia
ABARES conducts Regional Outlook conferences in each of the States as well as the Northern Territory each year to provide a grass-roots interaction with rural communities around its agricultural and resources commodity forecasts and other key issues affecting rural indu...