On-line Biotech

Dear Members,

The FAO Biotechnology Forum (http://www.fao.org/biotech/forum.asp) will host its next e-mail conference from 10 November to 7 December 2008 and that it will be exploring the role that application of agricultural biotechnologies may play for production of bioenergy in developing countries, with a major focus on liquid biofuels. It is being organised in collaboration with the FAO Working Group on Bioenergy. As part of the build up to the conference, an FAO seminar on the same subject was held in Rome on 12 October 2007 – see http://www.fao.org/biotech/seminaroct2007.htm for papers and presentations.

The conference will cover issues such as the application of biotechnologies for first-generation and second-generation biofuels and, to a lesser degree, for biogas production and for biodiesel production from microalgae. It therefore encompasses the use of biotechnology tools to produce biomass for bioenergy purposes as well as to convert the biomass to biofuel. To discuss
and exchange experiences on this subject, we invite you to join the conference!!

As usual, the conference is open to everyone, is free and will be moderated.
Any Forum Member may subscribe. To do so, please send an e-mail message to
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