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IPlanta WG4-5 Meeting, WG2 Meeting and 2nd iPlanta School
Riceviamo dal Prof. Bruno Mezzetti (Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari ed Ambientali - Universita’ Politecnica delle Marche) le seguenti comunicazioni:
Dear Colleagues,
the iPLANTA WG4-5 meeting on RNAi socio-economical impact and communication will be held in Brussels next October 17th, 2018 (http://iplanta.univpm.it/node/63) with the aim to establish links with a wide range of stakeholders and policy makers from different EU countries. The attendance of a good number of participants is crucial for the meeting to be successful: for this reason, we ask your collaboration in providing useful contacts to be invited. The preliminary program is structured as follow:
- October 17th, Morning 9:00-14:30 including light lunch: Meeting with stakeholders in order to present the main features of RNAi technology and its impacts and collate stakeholders’ viewpoints on RNAi-based products. We ask you to contact and suggest the participation of industrial organizations, plant breeders, biotech companies, SMEs, growers associations, farming organizations (including organic), food manufacturers, retailers, consumers associations from your Country.
- October 17th, Afternoon 15:30 Meeting at EU Parliament – Meeting with decision makers and politicians, delegates from the EU DGs Agriculture, SANTE, Research, Environment, MEPS and relevant EU organizations.
We ask you to contact and suggest the participation of both Stakeholders and Decision Makers representing your country at EU level. The most relevant representative per country will be officially invited to the meeting and reimbursed on iPLANTA budget.
Due to the limit on time we request feed-back from you before the 25th of July.
For more information contact Dr. Vera Ventura – WG4 Chair, email: vera.ventura@unimi.it
WG2 Meeting and 2nd iPLANTA School, Rothamsted (UK), September 26th-28th, 2018
Remainder to submit abstracts and grant applications - http://iplanta.univpm.it/node/61
Topical Application of RNAi: Progress and possibilities.
The one-day WG2 meeting will be focused on the identification of the industrial perspective of RNAi products. With this aim we have invited experts from industrial companies and research institutions to present their research towards RNAi pipeline products and RNAi synthesis. A focus will be given to sprayable RNAi as plant protection products, by identifying progress and possibilities.
Other presentations (approx. 12) will be selected from abstracts to be submitted, deadline July 31st, please use the template available at the following link (http://iplanta.univpm.it/node/61). Other abstracts can be accepted for posters presentation. The WG2 meeting will be open to all experts, including participants in the 2nd Training School.
Three keynote speakers are confirmed (see below).
Dr Wendy Maddelein (Syngenta Ghent) will give an industry perspective on sprayable RNAi.
Prof Max Lu, University of Surrey will talk about Clay nanosheets (BioClay) for topical delivery of RNAi https://www.nature.com/articles/nplants2016207
Prof Tom Brown (Oxford University) will talk on new methods of RNAi synthesishttp://www.browngroupnucleicacidsresearch.org.uk/pages/research/modified_rna
All speakers are eligible for COST reimbursement. For iPLANTA school, all scientists/researchers/experts of the biotechnology area are eligible to submit application for the iPLANTA grants, deadline July 31st -http://iplanta.univpm.it/node/6. About 12-15 applications, depending to the budget available and request, will be granted.
WG2 meeting and School will be open to everyone who will participate at their expense. A registration is requested by using the same application form available on http://iplanta.univpm.it/node/6.
Logistics: Rothamsted (post code AL5 2JQ) is about 10 km from Luton with has an airport, a range of hotels and good a train link (10min + 10 min walk) to Rothamsted. However, hotels close to the station can get full so early booking is advised. For less expensive hotels further from Luton train station, it is also feasible to use taxi to reach Rothamsted.
2nd Remainder
STSMs - All scientists/researchers/experts of the biotechnology area are eligible to submit application for the iPLANTA grants: Second Deadline: September 30th 2018 – http://iplanta.univpm.it/node/6
Please help to spread this information to experts, associations, institutions and companies with an interest in this research area.
Local organizar: Huw Dylan Jones, email: hdj2@aber.ac.uk