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Richard
Sayre
Principle Investigator,
BioCassava Plus
Director, Bio Cassava Plus
Director, ERAC Institute for Renewable
Fuels
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
975 N. Warson Rd.
St. Louis, MO 63132, USA
Phone: 1-314-587-1437, Fax:
1-314-587-1537,
E-Mail:
rsayre@danforthcenter.org
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John
Beeching
Member, BioCassava
Plus Program Oversight
Committee
Department
of Biology & Biochemistry
University of Bath
1.11 4South Building
Bath, BA2 7AY, U.K.
E-mail: bssjrb@bath.ac.uk |
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Claude
Fauquet
Member, BioCassava
Plus Program Oversight
Committee
ILTAB/Donald
Danforth Plant Science Center
975 North Warson Road
St. Louis, MO 63132, USA
E-Mail: fauquet@danforthcenter.org |
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Mark
Manary
Member, BioCassava
Plus Program Oversight
Committee
Washington
University School of Medicine
Campus Box 8116
660 S. Euclid Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63110 , USA
E-Mail: manary@wustl.edu |
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Martin Fregene
Product Development Manager, BioCassava
Plus Program
c/o Enterprise-Rent-a-Car Renewable Fuel Institute,
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
975 N. Warson Road,
St. Louis, MO 63132, U.S.A.
Tel: 1-314-587-1665; Fax: 1-314-587-1765;
E-mail:
mfregene@danforthcenter.org
Website:
www.danforthcenter.org |
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E.
N. Ada Mbanaso
Member, BioCassava
Plus Program Oversight Committee
National Root Crops Research
Institute
Umuahia, Abia, Nigeria
E-mail: embanaso@yahoo.com |
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Ed
Cahoon
Associate Professor,
Biochemistry,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, E31B BEAD, Lincoln NE 68588-0664.
Tel: 402-472-5611; E-mail:
ecahoon2@unl.edu
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Hernán
Ceballos
Centro
Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT)
Cali, Colombia
E-Mail: h.ceballos@cgiar.org |
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John
Fellman
Department
of Horticulture
Washington State
University
Johnson Hall 51
Pullman, WA, USA
E-Mail: fellman@mail.wsu.edu
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Simon
Gichuki
Kenya
Agricultural Research Institute
KARI Biotechnology Centre
P.O. Box 14733
Nairobi, Kenya
E-mail: stgichu@yahoo.co.uk |
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Bussie
Maziya-Dixon
International
Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
PMB 5320, Ibadan Oyo State, Nigeria
E-mail: b.maziya-dixon@CGIAR.ORG |
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Peng
Zhang
Shanghai Center for
Cassava Biotechnology,
Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology
SIBS, Chinese Academy of Sciences
300 Fenglin Road, 200032 Shanghai, China
Tel: 0086-21-54924096
E-mail:
zhangpeng@sibs.ac.cn
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Wilhelm Gruissem
Institute of Plant Sciences
ETH Zurich
Universitätstrasse 2
8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel: +41 44 632 0857
Fax: +41 44 632 1079
Email: wgruissem@ethz.ch
WEB: http://www.pb.ethz.ch |
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Daniel
Schachtman
Monsanto / Donald
Danforth Plant Science Center
975 North Warson Road
St. Louis, MO 63132, USA
E-mail: dschachtman@danforthcenter.org |
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Dimuth
Siritunga
Department of Biology
University of Puerto Rico
Mayaguez, PR, USA
E-mail: siritunga@uprm.edu |
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Nigel
Taylor
ILTAB/Donald
Danforth Plant Science Center
975 North Warson Road
St. Louis, MO 63132, USA
E-mail: ntaylor@danforthcenter.org |
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November 2009
Completion of the Sequencing of the
Cassava Genome Project begun in 2003.
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October 22, 2009
National Biosafety Committee (NBC)
in Kenya announced the approval of a CFT permit for Kenya. |
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October 22, 2009
Ms. Jenny Rooke, Program Officer,
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's visit to the BC Plus laboratory
in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. |
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October 19-21, 2009
Grand Challenges in Global Health
(GCGH) Meeting and GC 9 Meeting in Arusha, Tanzania.
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October 14, 2009
First field trial of transgenic
plants in Nigeria. |
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October 12, 2009
Reaching End Users Strategy Meeting
in Tanzania. |
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October 8-9, 2009
Reaching End Users Strategy Meeting
in Kenya. |
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October 5-6, 2009
Reaching End Users Strategy Meeting
in Nigeria. |
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October 2009
Harvesting of transgenic cassava,
Pro Vitamin A and Protein (Zeolin) in Puerto Rico. |
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July 2009
Harvesting of the G5, Virus
resistant plant in Puerto Rico. |
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June 27-29, 2009
4th Annual Scientific Research
Meeting of BC Plus in Puerto Rico. |
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May 8-11, 2009
GC9 Meeting in Beijing, China. |
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