February 19 - 22, 2011 Plant Transformation Technologies II
Vienna, Austria Further information
Agrobacterium Mediated Plant Transformation; Particle Bombardment and Other Transformation Methods; Explants Used for Plant Transformation; Transformation of Important Crops; Plant Transformation Tools: Genes, Vectors, Promoters etc; Selectable and Screenable Markers; Molecular Analysis of Transgenic Events and Transformmants; Expression of Transgenes in Transgenic Plants (Integration, Stability); Marker Excision and Marker Free Transtechnologies; Plastid Transformation and Biotechnology; Transgenic Plants as Bio Factories; Transgenic Plants and Public; Intellectual Property in Plant Transformation; Emerging Plant Trans-Technologies. Amongst the invited speakers are internationally known names such as M. Van Montagu, C.N. Stewart, Jr., V. Citovsky, S.B. Gelvin, H.D. Jones, H. Kobayashi, D.W. Ow, R. Bock, M. Boutry, L.-Y. Lee, A. Trewavas, G. Lomonossoff, G. Corrado, S.-S. Kwak, G. Angenon, H. Daniell and others.
Suggested reading: Recent Advances in Plant Virology