Program - Thursday, September 27                                       Wed-Thurs-Fri
SESSION 3: NOVEL MATERIALS IN TRANSGENIC ORGANISMS
8:30 am KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Dick Flavell, Ceres, Inc.
Gene Mining in Arabidopsis
9:15 am PRESENTATION: Takeshi Matsumura, Hokkaido Green-Bio Institute
Human Proteins in Plants
9:45 am PRESENTATION: Aron Silverstone, Syngenta
Catalyzing the Ethanol Revolution: A High Temperature Amylase Produced in Maize Endosperm
10:15 am BREAK
10:45 am PRESENTATION: Julian Ma, St. George's, University of London
Exploiting the plant secretory system for the production of recombinant pharmaceutical proteins
11:15 pm PRESENTATION: Eliot Herman, Danforth Plant Science Center
Expression of Non-Immunogen Protiens in Soybean
11:45 pm PRESENTATION: Ken Gruys, Monsanto
Omega-3 Oil Seeds
12:15 pm PRESENTATION: Scott Betts, Syngenta
Expression of an Engineered Phytase in Maize Seed
12:45 pm LUNCH
SESSION 4: TRANSGENIC ORGANISMS FOR FOOD AND HEALTH
2:00 pm PRESENTATION: John Phillips, University of Guelph
Transgenic Pigs Producing Salivary Phytase: Low Phosphorus Manure through Enhanced Digestion of Organic Phosphorus
2:30 pm PRESENTATION: Randy Prather, University of Missouri- Columbia
Transgenic Pigs for Xeno-Transplantation
3:00 pm PRESENTATION: Joe McGonigle, Aqua Bounty Technologies, Inc.
Familiarity Breeds Consensus: Commercializing the First Transgenic Food Animal
3:30 pm BREAK
4:00 pm PRESENTATION: Jacqueline Heard, Monsanto
Corn Drought Tolerance
4:30 pm PRESENTATION: David Patton, Syngenta
Use of Transgenic Plants to Enhance Ethanol Production from Cellulosic Biomass
5:00 pm PRESENTATION: Louis-Marie Houdebine, Institute National de la Rechercher Agronomique
The Good Reasons to Generate Transgenic Rabbits
5:30 pm RECEPTION AND POSTER VIEWING
7:30 pm ROUNDTABLE 2: Impact of Biosafety Issues on Transgenic Products
Moderated by Eric Sachs, Monsanto