Dear Participants,
This is just a quick update on the conference so far.
About 500 people have subscribed, coming from a least 50 different countries.
As described in the conference Background Document, the first sequenced genomes of domesticated animals and plants were released about 10 years ago and an ever increasing number of important species have been sequenced each year since then; the genomes of several thousand micro-organisms have now been sequenced; and the knowledge generated from genomics can be applied in several different ways. With this as a background, people are asked to address two main questions in this conference:
- What have been the impacts (positive and/or negative) so far of genomics and the other 'omics' for the crop, forestry, livestock, fishery and agro-industry sectors in developing countries?
- What are the impacts (positive and/or negative) of genomics and other 'omics' likely to be in the near future (e.g. the next five years) for the crop, forestry, livestock, fishery and agro-industry sectors in developing countries?
As mentioned in the Background Document, the conference encompasses genomics and other 'omics' applications in crops, livestock, fish, forest trees and micro-organisms and different areas of application (e.g. for genetic resources management, pathogen detection, vaccine development, food authentication or genetic improvement) and so brings together people who may have knowledge/experience from one or more of these topics, but not all of them. As terminology is occasionally sector/subject-specific, we ask participants to try and keep this in mind when writing their messages.
Apart from the first 2 messages from me before the conference began, five messages have been posted so far. All are available at https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?A0=Biotech-Room3-L
To see them sorted by date (latest on top), see
https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind1303&L=Biotech-Room3-L&O=D&H=0&D=1&T=1
If for any reason you did receive any of them, just contact me at [log in to unmask]
The last day for receiving messages for the conference is Sunday 24 March 2013
With best regards
John
John Ruane, PhD
Moderator,
E-conference on Genomics in Food and Agriculture,
FAO Working Group on Biotechnology,
E-mail address: [log in to unmask]
FAO Biotechnology Forum: http://www.fao.org/biotech/biotech-forum/
FAO Biotechnology website: http://www.fao.org/biotech/ (in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian)
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