Eleventh Congress of IAPTC&B at Beijing August 13 through17
The Eleventh Congress of the International Association of Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology (IAPTC&B) started on August 13 and would continue through 17 in Beijing International Convention Center. Eighty-eight countries are affiliated to this association that holds its Assembly every four years hosted by different countries by turn. The last Congress was hosted by the USA and was held in Florida under the chairmanship of Professor Indra K. Vasil. The Chair of the current congress is Professor Zhihong Xu , currently Professor in Griffith University, Brisbane.
Seventeen plenary- and 33 keynote speakers have confirmed their participation. The number of posters classified under 26 symposia are 1601. Besides posters, 155 papers will be presented under 26 different symposia titles S-1 to S-155, 6-7 sessions running concurrently. In the workshop on RNAi Research four papers will be presented and the same number of papers in the other workshop entitled, "Opportunities for Research in Agriculture Science in Canada." To know more about the conference, pl click the title. The biotechnology community will be interested to take clues from some of the papers/posters to be presented at the conference such as “ Engineering Plants for the Global Clean up of Arsenic Pollution (P-9)” by R ichard Meagher, USA in order to ameliorate the problem of arsenic contamination in both rural and urban Bangladesh.
GNOBB member, Dr. Kamal Chowdhury, Associate Professor of Biology, Claflin University, SC is attending the conference. He will convey to the President of the Congress warmest greetings from both non-resident and resident Bangladeshis and present to him the latest copy of the Journal of Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology; i.e., vol. 16, # 1.
