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Biotech-Mod2 <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:53:02 +0100
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Dear Colleagues,

You previously subscribed to the FAO e-mail conference on "GMOs in the pipeline" which took place from 5 November to 2 December 2012. It was the 18th e-mail conference to be hosted by the FAO Biotechnology Forum since its launch in 2000 (http://www.fao.org/biotech/biotech-forum/). 

Earlier today, I sent out an announcement to the members of the FAO Biotechnology Forum that the 19th e-mail conference will take place from 4 to 24 March 2013 and that its provisional title is "Current and future impacts of genomics for the crop, forestry, livestock, fishery and agro-industry sectors in developing countries". I again will be moderating this conference.

Apologies for cross posting, but as some of you are not members of the FAO Biotechnology Forum, I include below the text of my announcement today, which also provides instructions for people wishing to subscribe to the upcoming conference on genomics. We encourage you to spread the word about this conference.

For those who have not already done so, to receive information in the future about other upcoming conferences, we also encourage you to join the FAO Biotechnology Forum by sending an e-mail message to [log in to unmask] with only the following one line in the body of the message:
subscribe Biotech-L firstname lastname 

With my best regards

John

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Dear Forum Members,

We are happy to announce that the FAO Biotechnology Forum (http://www.fao.org/biotech/biotech-forum/) will host its next e-mail conference from 4 to 24 March 2013 and that its provisional title is "Current and future impacts of genomics for the crop, forestry, livestock, fishery and agro-industry sectors in developing countries". 

Genomics is the study of all the genetic material (genome) of an organism. The genomes of several hundred species, including mammals, fish, trees, crops, bacteria and viruses, have already been sequenced or are currently being sequenced. For example, the rice genome sequence was published in 2002 and the chicken genome sequence in 2004. Over time, genome sequencing has become much cheaper and quicker. This e-mail conference will look at the impacts that genomics is currently having on food and agriculture in developing countries as well as the potential impacts that it may have for developing countries in the future.

As usual, the conference is open to everyone, is free and will be moderated. To subscribe to the conference, send an e-mail to [log in to unmask] with the following one line in the body of the message (leave the subject line blank):
subscribe biotech-room3-L firstname lastname

Where firstname and lastname refer to the person's first and last name. For example, if the subscriber's name is John Smith, then the line should be:
subscribe biotech-room3-L John Smith

For more information, contact [log in to unmask] A background document is being prepared and will be sent to Forum members before the conference begins. This is the 19th e-mail conference to be hosted by the FAO Biotechnology Forum since it was launched in the year 2000.

We ask you to please spread the word about this conference to others, so that people who might be interested in joining are aware about it.

Best regards

John

John Ruane, PhD
FAO Biotechnology Forum Administrator
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FAO Biotechnology website http://www.fao.org/biotech/   
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