European Biotechnology Week Valencia 2012

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4

Afternoon

• 16:15 Opening address: Jaime Prohens, Director of COMAV Institute, President of the Spanish Society for Horticultural Science (SECH), Universitat Politècnica de Valencia
• 16:30 The fourth green revolution: feeding the world in the XXI century and improving the environment with transgenic crops resistant to abiotic stresses. Ramón Serrano, Consuelo Montesinos, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia
• 17:30 Microscopic algae as bioreactors. Juraj Krajčovič, Comenius University, Bratislava

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5

Morning

• 9:00 European Biotechnology Thematic Network Association's past and future activities. Munis Dundar, President of EBTNA, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey; Maria-Pia Viola-Magni, EBTNA General Secretary, Fondazione onlus Enrico Puccinelli, Perugia, Italy
• 9:30 Enzymes and protein engineering. Yusuf Deeni, University of Abertay, Dundee, UK
• 10:15 Antibody engineering in Europe: academic and industrial research and development. Florian Rüker, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
• 11:00 Coffee break
• 11:30 Circulating nucleic acids (CNAs) in man, animals and plants (I). CNAs in plasma and serum in early diagnosis, prognosis and treatment monitoring. Peter Gahan, King’s College, London, UK
• 12:30 The presence and roles of phospholipids in chromatin. Maria-Pia Viola-Magni, Fondazione onlus Enrico Puccinelli, Perugia, Italy

Afternoon

• Meeting of the EBTNA Executive Committee and EBTNA General Assembly

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6

Morning

• 9:00 The metabolism and roles of chromatin phospholipids. Maria-Pia Viola-Magni, Fondazione onlus Enrico Puccinelli, Perugia, Italy
• 10:00 Circulating nucleic acids (CNAs) in man, animals and plants (II). The biology of CNAs and their involvement in modifying F1 generations. Peter Gahan, King’s College, London, UK
• 11:00 Coffee break
• 11:30 Molecular methods for detection and typing of food-born pathogen Cronobacter spp. Hana Drahovská, Eva Kaclíková, Ján Turňa, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
• 12:30 Biomimetic nanosensors for determination of toxic compounds in food and agricultural products. Lyubov Yotova, University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, Sofia, Bulgaria

Afternoon

• 16:00 Use of optimal contribution and simulated annealing algorithms for optimizing selection schemes under restricted inbreeding in farm animal populations. Edo D’Agaro, University of Udine, Italy
• 17:00 Coffee break
• 17:30 Spoilage yeast detection using a fiber optic device. Marisa Manzano, Francesca Cecchini, Lucilla Lacumin, Giuseppe Comi, University of Udine, Italy

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7

Morning

• 9:00 Bioinformatics Core Services: a bridge between biologists and software developers. Javier Forment, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
• 10:00 Mass spectrometric identification of protein-bound glycans. Brigitte Schmitz, University of Bonn, Germany
• 11:00 Coffee break
• 11:30 (speaker not yet confirmed)
• 12:30 Closing of the 'European Biotechnology Week'