Modern Technologies to Meet Global Challenges
April 25, 2008| |
In combination with genomics, proteomics and metabolomics, biotechnology can greatly help meet the challenges of production, management, and sustainability of agriculture and economic development. Food, feed and energy issues can be addressed through collaborations between genomic researchers and plant breeders and by using the tools of modern biotechnology. This perspective was stressed during the recent international symposium on “Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics: Recent Trends in Biotechnology” held at the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics (MMG), University of The Punjab in Pakistan. The symposium was organized in collaboration with Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission, National Biotechnology Commission, Core Group in Biological Sciences.
Over 190 delegates attended the workshop which aimed to discuss new ways to use animal, plants and microbes to improve quality of life, and to bridge the gap between global scientific communities in the fields of genomics, proteomics and metabolomics.
Read Ijaz Ahmad Rao’s article at http://www.dawn.com/2008/04/21/ebr4.htm.
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