FRI SEPT. 26 - FOOD FOR LIFE
Science and technology for improvement
| ICRISAT Champions the Poor of the Semi-Arid Tropics |
William Dar, Director General of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, India |
| Boosting sustainable crop productivity |
Dirk Inzé, Professor at Ghent University and Scientific Director of the Department of Plant Systems Biology at the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology |
| Prospects for reducing crop losses to plant disease |
Jonathan Jones,Scientist, Sainsbury Laboratory, UK |
| Fisheries and global changes impacts on marine ecosystems and global food security |
Daniel Pauly,Director, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Canada |
| Biotechnology to support food sustainability in the developing Countries |
Tilahun Yilma, Distinguished Professor of Virology Member, International Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Tropical Disease Agents, University of California, Davis |
| Safe and Healthy Food: whose responsibility? |
Lord John Krebs, Former Chairman of the UK Food Standards Agency; Principal Jesus College, Oxford |
| Overview on nutrition in China, past and present |
Chunming Chen, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention |
| Biofortification, a cost-effective intervention for micro-nutrient deficiency |
Ingo Potrykus,Chairman Humanitarian Golden Rice Board and Network and EmeritusProfessor of Plant Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology |
| Tackling chronic diseases: the potential of preventive medicine through improvements to diet |
Cathie Martin,Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes C., UK |
| Nutrigenomic (provisional title) |
Bruce German |
| Obesity and Diabetes: Excess Food or Toxic Environment |
Barbara Corkey, Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry, Vice Chair for Research Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine |
Italian Association for Cancer Research Lecture
Food, Life Span regulation and Cancer
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Pier Giuseppe Pelicci, Director Department of Experimental Oncology, European Institute of Oncology, Milan |
| Panel Discussion |
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