BIOVEGEN celebrates the “Science-Business” session during the VIII Plant Genetic Improvement Congress

On July 12, 13 and 14, the VIII Congress on Plant Genetic Improvement was held in Vitoria, with the attendance of more than 130 researchers representing all the leading research centers in plant biology, in addition to 7 companies in the agricultural sector interested in the advances produced in Spanish laboratories: genetic improvement, plant nutrition and protection, systems biology, plant-pathogen interaction, etc.

This reference congress in Plant Biology has had this year a Science-Business Session (Thursday, July 14), organized by BIOVEGEN, in which researchers and companies met in order to enhance Science-Business collaboration and the transfer of research results from the laboratory to the agricultural company.

Program and presentations

3:45 p.m. Introduction and objectives

• Gonzaga Ruiz de Gauna. BIOVEGEN

4:00 p.m. Company presentations

• AGRICULTURAL 2000. Giacomo Scatolino

• SAIONAIMER. Joseba Sanchez

• BIOGENETICS. Javier Gamboa

• SAMPOERNA AGRO. Dwi Asmono

• VALGENETICS. Magda Cervera

GENOMIC SYSTEMS. Lucia Bernard