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Manage your soils and grow your business

Tuesday 15th 2005 - Wednesday 16th November 2005

A forward looking "strategic lecture- and discussion-led workshop exploring the impacts of global markets, climate change and current farming practices on the functionality and biodiversity of soils, and air and water quality in arable, livestock and horticultural farming systems.

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The 6th Rothamsted International BioMarket

Monday 7th 2005 - Wednesday 9th November 2005

BioProducts for Food

Now in its sixth year, the BioMarket is a commercial networking event that attracts senior decision makers from industry and academia who are involved in the technology transfer and commercialisation of BioProducts from plant and microbial biotechnology. The event combines a traditional conference format with a full delegate partnering service and is structured to maximise opportunities for delegates to make contact with each other.

The BA Festival of Science

Thursday 8th September 2005

Africa's Rainbow Revolution

Kofi Annan has called for "a uniquely African Green revolution" to end the continent's hunger. Asia's "green revolution" tripled food production, but can't be transplanted directly to Africa , where a wide diversity of crops is grown under many different farming systems. A broad range of challenges need to be addressed-more like a rainbow revolution than a green one-can science help?

Rothamsted Research Association Science Day

Tuesday 7th June 2005

Incorporating sow2succeed and the First Report of the Sustainable Farming and Food Research Priorities Group

Pesticides and the food chain

Tuesday 10th May 2005

Overcoming producer, processor and retailer challenges with technology

The UK food chain is big business - retail and catering sales are almost £100 billion. Quantity, safety and quality are paramount issues to all involved - from input suppliers to consumers. And, like it or not, pesticides remain a vital part of the food production tool kit. From start to finish, science supports the food chain - developing new ways to control pests, preserve quality, ensure safety, and so on.

This seminar brings together the science, regulation and practice of pest control in the food chain. It addresses issues of today and opportunities for the future.

The seminar is intended for technical managers from retailers, processors and suppliers. With leading speakers from the UK and the United States, it will be an afternoon well spent, with an opportunity to discuss the issues.

A Course in Cryo-techniques for Electron Microscopy

Monday 11th 2005 - Friday 15th April 2005

The course will cover applications in plant sciences, microbiology and virology and will be of interest to those with a research or technical background in cell biology or life science, from both academia and industry. Techniques covered will include rapid cooling, freeze substitution, cryo-sectioning, thin film TEM and cryo-transfer and freeze fracture cryo-SEM. The Centre for Bioimaging is equipped with state-of-the-art scanning and transmission electron microscopes.

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MASAMB-2005

Monday 21st 2005 - Tuesday 22nd March 2005

Mathematical and Statistical Aspects of Molecular Biology. 15th Annual meeting

Bioinformatics and statistical genetics, twin themes of the long-running series of annual MASAMB meetings, have gained huge impetus from large-scale genome sequencing projects and development of high-throughput biological assay systems, including gene-expression microarrays. These immense data resources, and the underlying complexities of molecular and cell biology, provide exciting research opportunitities for numerate scientists.

With typically around 60-80 participants from mathematics, statistics, computer science, bioinformatics, biology and related fields, the MASAMB meetings provide an intimate setting for exchange of ideas in methodological and applied research. Research students and scientists newly entering the field of genomic research are particularly welcome.

The meeting will contain approximately 12 half-hour talks selected from participants' submissions, plus a poster session.