[Seminar] Plant Sciences: Discover, Innovate, communicate with Society
Marc Van Montagu, Ghent University, Belgium
| When | 07 Mar, 2016 at 11:30 am |
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| Where | Auditorium |
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Title: Plant Sciences: Discover, Innovate, communicate with Society
Speaker: Marc Van Montagu
Affiliation: Ghent University, Belgium
Host: Plants for Life PhD Program
Prof. Montagu, together with his colleague Prof. Jeff Schell, discovered the gene transfer mechanism between Agrobacterium and plants, which resulted in the development of methods to alter Agrobacterium into an efficient delivery system for gene engineering and to create transgenic plants. These findings paved the way for the tremendous development in plant sciences during the last 30 years. Prof. Montagu was awarded the “World Food Prize 2013”. The World Food Prize, the “Nobel Prize for food and agriculture”, gives the award annually to one or more people whose work has been of exceptional social importance for the quality, quantity or availability of food. Prof. Montagu is the most recognised Plant Scientist alive and is therefore a great honor to have him at ITQB.
