Plant Biotech Talks come to Elvas

InnovPlantProtect (InPP) is promoting the “Plant Biotech Talks” on September 24, between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., at the INIAV Auditorium in Elvas.

The lecture series aims to bring together internationally renowned experts in the fields of applied plant biotechnology and cereal crop biotechnology who will share developments in these areas, as well as the new genomic techniques that have been applied to rice production.

The guest speakers are Paul Christou, Professor and Director of the Applied Plant Biotechnology Laboratory at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) at the University of Lleida, Teresa Capell, Professor and Director in the Department of Plant Production and Forestry Sciences at ICREA and Xin Huang, researcher in the Department of Agriculture and Forestry Engineering at ICREA.

The program is as follows:

10:00 - 11:00 | Paul Christou: Plant biotechnology, 1980-2024. From Round-up Ready soy to Genome Editing and beyond
11:00 - 12:00 | Teresa Capell: Communicating science through art and archaeology
12:00 - 13:00 | Xin Huang: Knocking our rice blast susceptibility genes through Genome Editing

Participation in the event is free and not subject to registration.

See the full program in the image below.