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    Biotechnology

    Public Diplomacy Calendar




    Of Note
    April 7-19Sixth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, The Hague, Netherlands
    Currently Underway
    April 7-111st International Congress On Plant Metabolomics, Wageningen, The Netherlands
    April 7-19Sixth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, The Hague, Netherlands
    April 8-12Codex Committee on Milk and Milk Products, 5th Session, Wellington, New Zealand
    April
    April 15-19Codex Committee on General Principles, 17h Session, Paris, France
    April 17-19Advances In Plant Virology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
    April 18-20Aquaculture International 2002, Glasgow, Scotland
    April 20-24Experimental Biology 2002: Translating the Genome, New Orleans, Louisiana
    April 22-26Animal Cell Culture Methods and Scale-up Strategies, State College, Pennsylvania
    April 22-26Third Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, The Hague, Netherlands
    April 23-26Codex Intergovernmental Task Force on Fruit and Vegetable Juices, 2nd Session, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    April 24-253rd China Crop Protection, Biotechnology and Food Safety Conference, Beijing, China
    April 24-26Victam China, Beijing, China
    April 29-May 4Proteomics: Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop, Windsor, Canada
    May
    May 2-4International Workshop on Sustainable Trade and Conservation of Medicinal Plants, Rabat, Morocco
    May 754th International Symposium on Crop Protection, Ghent, Belgium
    May 6-10Codex Committee on Food Labeling, Halifax, Canada
    May 13-18Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues, The Hauge, Netherlands
    May 14-175th East/West Feed Industry Conference and Exhibition, Poznan, Poland
    May 14-17Separation and Purification Strategies for Biotechnology Products, State College, Pennsylvania
    May 14-174th International Symposium on Hybrid Rice, Manila, Philippines
    May 19-21Foods for Health: Potential, Perspectives and Policy, University of Minnesota and National Biotechnology Council, Minneapolis, Minnesota
    May 23-24Danish Biotechnology Conference VIII: Impact of Functional Genomics on Biotechnology, Vejle, Denmark
    May 27-30World Seed Conference, Chicago, Illinois
    May 29-313rd China International Agrochemical and Crop Protection Exhibition, Shanghai, China
    June
    June 4-6Vinexpo Asia-Pacific, Tokyo, Japan
    June 3-7Codex Committee on Fish and Fishery, 25th Session, Alesund, Norway
    June 7-10AquaParners 2002: 3rd International Exhibition on Fisheries and Aquaculture, Athens, Greece
    June 8-105th World Congress on Processing Tomato, Istanbul, Turkey
    June 9-12BIO 2002: International Biotechnology Convention and Exhibition, Toronto, Canada
    June 10-13World Food Summit Rome, Italy
    June 10-14Codex Committee on Fresh Fruit and Vegetables10th Session, Mexico City, Mexico
    June 16-21Cellular and Molecular Mycology, Plymouth, New Hampshire
    June 17-19Long-Term Selection. A Celebration of 100 Years of Selection for Oil and Protein in Maize, Urbana, Illinois
    June 17-20Codex Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Animal Feeding, 3rd Session, Copenhagen, Denmark
    June 22-26Vinexpo Global, Bordeaux, France
    June 23-26American Society of Enology and Viticulture Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts
    June 26-28Codex Alimentarius, Execituve Committee, 50th Session, Rome, Italy
    June 30-July 4AgEng 2002 International Conference on Agricultural Engineering, Budapest, Hungary
    June 30-July 5Mammalian Gametogenesis and Embryogenesis, New London, Connecticut
    July
    July 7-12The International Congress on Membranes and Membrane Processes, Toulouse, France
    July 8-10Plant Pathology and Global Food Security, British Society of Plant Pathology Presidential Meeting 2002, London, England
    July 14-1915th Triennial Conference of the European Association for Potato Research (EAPR), Hamburg, Germany
    July 28-30ASAE-CIGR Congress Annual International Meeting, American Society of Agricultural Engineers and International Commission of Agricultural Engineering, Chicago, Illinois
    August
    Aug. 2-4International Congress of Meat Science and Technology, Rome Italy
    Aug. 4-910th International IUPAC Congress on the Chemistry of Crop Protection, Basel, Switzerland
    Aug. 9-12IIFET 2002: Fisheries in the Global Economy, Wellington, New Zealand
    Aug. 11-16Intellectural Property Management, Agri-Biotechnology Transfer and Trade in an International Context, Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca New York
    Aug. 14-2117th World Congress of Soil Science, Bangkok, Thailand
    Aug. 21-237th World Congress of Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Montpellier, France
    Aug. 26-Sept. 4World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa
    September
    Sept. 3-5Biolaw 2002: Bridging the Gap between Scientific and Legal Worlds, Bangkok, Thailand
    Sept. 4-7Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition 2002, Kopavogur, Iceland
    Sept. 9-13Animal Cell Culture Methods and Scale-up Strategies, State College, Pennsylvania
    Sept. 10-13FAO/WHO Codex Regional Coordinating Committee for Europe, 26th Session, Bratislava, Slovakia
    Sept. 12-14ESDAR 2002: 6th Conference of the European Society for Domestic Animal Reproduction, Parma, Italy
    Sept. 15-19Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture for Dry Areas for the 2nd Millennium, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China
    Sept. 15-20Plant Breeding for the 11th Millennium, 12th Annual Australasian Plant Breeding Conference, Perth, Australia
    Sept. 16-20International Rice Congress 2002, Beijing, China
    Sept. 17-20FAO/WHO Codex Regional Coordinating Committee for Asia, 13th Session, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    Sept. 17-27Genomic Approaches to Forest Tree Stress Tolerance, Crete, Greece
    Sept. 21-2517th American Barley Researchers' Workshop, Fargo, North Dakota
    Sept. 23-27Codex Committee on Progessed Fruits and Vegetables, 21st Session, Place TBA
    Sept. 24-27Congrilait 2002: 26th International Dairy Foundation World Dairy Congress, Paris, France
    October
    Oct. 10-15The Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms, 7th International Symposium, Beijing, China
    Oct. 16-19Aquaculture Europe 2002, Trieste, Italy
    Oct. 19-23Third World Academy of Science 8th General Conference, New Delhi, India
    Oct. 21-26Codex Committee on Food Hygiene
    Oct. 22-25Separation and Purification Strategies for Biotechnology Products, State College, Pennsylvania
    Oct. 27-31Networks in Plant Biology, European Plant Science Organization Conference, Brunnen, Switzerland
    Oct. 29-25Separation and Purification Strategies for Biotechnology Products, State College, Pennsylvania
    Oct. 29-Nov. 1FAO/WHO Codex Regional Committee for North America and South-West Pacific, 7th Session, Place in Canada TBA
    Oct. 30-Nov. 2CGIAR Annual General Meeting, Place TBA
    November
    Nov. 4-8Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses, 24th Session, Berlin, Germany
    Nov. 18-21Pests and Diseases, British Crop Protection Council, Brighton, U.K.
    Nov. 18-22Codex Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling, 24th Session, Budapest, Hungary
    Nov. 25-29FAO/WHO Codex Regional Committee for Africa, 15th Session, Place TBA
    December
    Dec. 3-6FAO/WHO Codex Regional Committee for Latin america and the Caribbean, 7th Session, Place TBA
    Dec. 13-153rd International Conference on Systems Biology, Stockholm, Sweden





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