Non-Food Application Symposium

The symposium was held September 8, 2006 the Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences,
Flakkebjerg, Forsøgsvej 1, Slagelse.

 

The symposium was also provided as a PhD course "Trends in Plant Biotechnology" (2 ETCs). Please view literature list for the course.

10.00 – 10.30 Coffee 

 

10.30 – 11.10 Plant Cell walls: From structures to products, by Professor Markus Pauly, Max-Planck-Institut für Pflanzenphysiologie, Germany

 

11.10 - 11.50  Genes, greens and global vaccines, by Professor Julian Ma, United medical and Dental School, London, UK

 

11.50 – 12.30 Dissecting the molecular basis of Quality Protein Maize, by Professor Brian A. Larkins, University of Arizona, USA

 

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch

 

13.30 – 14.10 The accumulation and breakdown of seed storage reserves, by Professor Ian Graham, University of York University, York, UK 

 

14.10 – 14.50 Biosynthesis of PHB in plants, by Research Scientist Karen Bohmert,

Metabolix, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

14.50 - 15.15 Coffee

 

15.15 – 15.55 Towards an understanding of the starch pathway: evolution and function, by Professor Steven Ball, University of Lille, France