Enhancing plant resistance to disease - Optimisation of growth for food and biofuel - RNA silencing mechanisms in plants - The use of microarrays and bioinformatics.
The 2nd in this series of events, The Plant Genomics Congess will examine the latest NGS platforms and technologies suitable for progressing plant based research as well as tools to enable successful analysis.
Calgary TELUS Convention Centre - Calgary , AB, Canada
Some presentation topics include: Ideal grain ingredients: breeding for health; The potential role of biotechnology in animal health; There’s a science to feeding the world; Are bio-derived products a practical answer for sustainable agriculture?; Innovations to enabl...
The application of next-gen sequencing and advanced bioinformatics in drug discovery and development, disease research, clinical diagnostics, agricultural breeding, and evolution and conservation.
The congress will examine the latest strategies, developments and case studies using the technologies to further research in areas including food microbiology, plant/ecology genomics and other novel applications.