Date: Jun.3 to Jun.7, 2013
Place: 20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Institute of Botany, Beijing, China

Organizing Committee (in alphabetical order)
Academic Committee
Chair: Bao-rong Lu (Fudan University)
Kong-ming Wu (Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences)
Associate Chair:
Helmut Gaugitsch (Ministry of Environmental Protection of Austria)
Charles Gbedemah (Secretariat of the Convention on Biological diversity)
Ke-ping Ma (Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Sheng Qiang (Nanjing Agricultural University)
Yong-hua Yang (Nanjing University)

Academic Committee Members:
Hans Bergmans (Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands)
Kok Gan Chan (University of Malaya, Malaysia)
Henri Darmency (INRA, France)
Jack Heinemann (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
Chang-ming Lu (Oil Crops Research Institute, Chinese Academy of agricultural Sciences)
David Quist (GenØk - Centre for Biosafety, Norway）
Markus Schmidt (Organization for International Dialogue and Conflict Management, Austria)
Neal Stewart (University of Tennessee, USA)
Wei Wei (Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences）
Da-yuan Xue (Ministry of Environmental Protection of China）

 

Symposium Themes
1. Principles and approaches in biosafety assessment
2. Assessment and application of biosafety of stacked traits
3. Assessment of LMOs resistant to abiotic stresses
4. Biosafety assessment of Living modified trees
5. Monitoring of Biosafety and LMOs