2:00 Science Advice, Government Policies, and Public Trust
Sir Robert May
UK Government

2:30 Why GMOs Should Not Be Released into the Environment
Benedikt Haerlin
Greenpeace

3:00 Biotechnology for Developing World Agriculture
Gordon Conway
The Rockefeller Foundation

3:30 The EU perspective: Biotech and Life Science Research in Europe - the EU Role, 1974-2024
Mark Cantley
EU Commission

4:00 The Biotechnology Perspective
Richard B. Flavell
Ceres Inc.

4:30 Agbiotechnology and Moral Imperatives: Why We Need Them
Willy De Greef
Novartis Seeds

5:00 Coffee

5:30 Biotech, The Food Perspective: Coping With Consumer Concern
Dirk Toet
Nestle

6:00 Birds, Bugs and Biotechnology -- Where Do We Go From Here?
Brian Johnson
English Nature

6:30 The Public's Growing Distrust of Science?
Richard Braun
BIO-LINK

7:00 Consumer Benefits: Is the Public Being Sold Short by the NGOs?
Ben Miflin
IACR-Rothamsted

7:30 How to Bring Agbiotech Into the Mainstream
Philippe Desmarescaux
Rhone-Poulenc Group

8:00 Cocktails

7:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Keynote Address: Novel Plants for Tropical Agriculture: Who Will Take Responsibility?
Marc Van Montagu
University of Gent Ph.D.

Insect and Herbicide Resistance: Lessons Learned
Chair: Marc Van Montagu

9:00 Sustaining the Effectiveness of Insect-Tolerant Bt Crops
Ian Denholm
UK Institute of Arable Crops Research

9:30 Why Crop Plants Need Recombinant DNA for Increased Disease Resistance
Jonathan Jones
John Innes Institute

10:00 Using Biotechnology to Understand Herbivore Resistance in Native Plants
Ian Baldwin
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

10:30 Coffee

11:00 AM New Targets for Herbicide Tolerance
Patrick Hussey
Royal Holloway, University of London

11:30 Risk Analysis on the Ecological Impact of Gene Flow to Wild Relatives: The Transgenic Virus-Resistant Sugar Beet Example
Detlef Bartsch
Aachen University of Technology RWTH

12:00 PM Discovery of Genes Conferring Glyphosate Resistance: Old Technologies and Revolutionary Modern Approaches
Guy della-Cioppa,
Biosource Genomics

12:30 Lunch

Enabling Technologies
Chair: Richard B.Flavell

2:00 PM Plant Genome Analysis in France: From the Functional Analysis of the Arabidopsis thaliana Genome to GENOPLANTE
Michel Caboche INRA

2:30 A Functional Genomics Approach to Herbicide Discovery
John Ryals
Paradigm Genetics

3:00 Genetics in a Post-Genomics Era: Lessons from Model Systems
Geoffrey Duyk
Exelixis Pharmaceuticals

3:30 Coffee

4:00 Alternate Plant Transformation Strategies Using Chemical-Inducible Promoters
Nam Hai Chua
The Rockefeller University

4:30 PM Transplastomic Technology for Safer and Better Transgenic Crops
Pal Maliga
Waksman Institute

5:00 New Technologies for Mining the Arabidopsis Genome Michael
R. Sussman
University of Wisconsin

5:30 Wine and Cheese

7:00 Continental Breakfast

Improving Crop Yield and Traits to Meet the Demands of the 21st Century
Chair: Indra Vasil

8:30 Molecular Improvement of Wheat
Indra Vasil
University of Florida Ph.D.

9:00 Resistance to Virus Diseases in Transgenic Crops
Roger N. Beachy
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

9:30 Wild Alleles for Crop Improvement
Susan McCouch
Cornell University

10:00 Current and Future Tools for Marker-Assisted Breeding
Mark Zabeau
VIB

10:30 Coffee

11:00 Engineering Carbohydrate Metabolism: Modified Starches and Other Polymers
Lothar Willmitzer
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology

11:30 Engineering Aluminum-Tolerance and Enhanced Nutrient Uptake In Transgenic Plants
Luis Herrera-Estrella
Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Avanzados

12:00 Molecular Mechanisms of Drought Resistance and Advances on Plant Genes for Clean Up of Heavy Metals
Julian Schroeder
University of California, San Diego

12:30 Luncheon

Improving Human Health and Nutrition
Chair: Ingo Potrykus

2:00 Vitamin-A and Iron-Enriched Rices May Hold Key to Combating Blindness and Malnutrition: A Biotechnology Advance
Ingo Potrykus
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)

2:30 Increasing the Nutrtional Protein Content of Food Crops of Importance to Developing Countries
C.S. Prakash
Tuskegee University

3:00 Immunoglobulins from Plants: Breaking the Barriers to Antibody Production
Mich Hein
EPIcyte Pharmaceutical

3:30 Improving Plant Oils for Edible and Industrial Use
Denis Murphy
John Innes Institute

Impact of Agbiotechnology
Chair: Roger N. Beachy

4:00 Roundtable discussion All Speakers