Transgenic Forest Trees: time to harvest?

The meeting Foresty Genomics will be an occasion to present the state of the art about Genetically Modified Forest Trees , including the progress in the last 25 years, biosafety analysis procedures (field assays and regulation), the public perception and acceptance of GMT. The 2nd edition of this Meeting is organized under projects funded by FCT, microEGO (PTDC/AGR-GPL/098179/2008)e P-KBBE TREEFORJOULES (P-KBBE/AGR_GPL/0001/2010) in collaboration with Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical , I.P (IICT), Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET), Instituto de Biologia Química e Biolócia (ITQB), Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, I.P. (INIAV), Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales  (LRSV, França),  Centro de Informação de Biotecnologia (CiB) and COST Action FP0905. Invited speakers: Mathias Fladung (vTI, Alemanha) – "Long-term genome stability of transgenic forest trees" Cristina Vettori (IGV-UOS FI, CNR, Itália) -  "COST Action FP0905: Biosafety of forest transgenic trees" Giancarlo Pasquali (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil) – Biosafety assessments of genetically modified Eucalypts in Brazil Rita Costa (INIAV, Portugal) – Genetic transformation of Chestnut tree All oral communications are made by invitation. Poster presentations should be submitted till 11th November 2012. One to two posters will be selected to oral presentation. The participation is free of charge, but due to registration limits, it is necessary to enroll till 19th November 2012. For submission of posters and inscriptions please check:  https://forestgenomicsmeeting.wordpress.com/  Furhter information reach:  Rita Caré: E-mail – cib@cibpt.org  (Preferential), Tel.    (00351) 214 469 461