Biotech Updates

Seed Biotechnology Symposium to Mark 10th Year Anniversary

May 8, 2009

The Seed Biotechnology Center at the University of California, Davis, will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a May 11-12 symposium titled "Seed Biotechnologies: Filling the Gap between the Public and Private Sector." Keynote speakers will be Rob Dirks of Rijk Zwaan, a vegetable breeding and seed production firm based in the Netherlands; Molly Jahn, a plant geneticist and dean of the University of Wisconsin — Madison's College of Agricultural and Life Sciences; and Mathilde Causse, head of the fruit and vegetable genetics and breeding unit at the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in France.

Additional information and registration for the conference are available at http://sbc.ucdavis.edu/About_the_Center/Symposium.htm. For more information, contact Jamie Miller, Seed Biotechnology Center, (530) 752-9985, jkmiller@ucdavis.edu. http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=9116