The Plant as Bioreactor

The symposium was held November 24, 2008 at Aarhus University.

 

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

 

Programme

10:15-10:30 Coffee - Welcome & introduction, by Jens Stougaard, Professor, University of Århus

 

10:30-11:10 Metabolic engineering of terpenes in plants, Maarten Jongsma, Associate Professor,   Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

 

11:10 -11:50 Expression of Superbug killers in Chloroplasts, Melanie Oey, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany

 

11:50 -12.20 Arabidopsis thaliana, a human protein production platform, Erik Østergaard Jensen, Head of Department, University of Århus

 

12.20 -13.00 LUNCH

 

13.00 -13.40 Apolipoprotein and insulin production in plants, Maurice Molony, CSO, SemBioSys, Calgary, Canada

 

13.40 – 14.20  Production of antibodies in seed, Elsa Arcalis, Post-Doc, Institue of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna

 

14.20 -15.00 Using starch binding domain technology to modify starch granule morphology and starch composition in potato, by Professor Richard Visser, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

 

15.00  Coffee