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Participating Scientists
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Richard Sayre

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 

John Beeching

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

Claude Fauquet

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

Mark Manary

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

Martin Fregene

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

E. N. Ada Mbanaso

E. N. Ada Mbanaso
Member, BioCassava Plus Program Oversight Committee
National Root Crops Research Institute
Umuahia, Abia, Nigeria
E-mail: embanaso@yahoo.com

Ed Cahoon

Ed Cahoon
Associate Professor, Biochemistry,

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, E31B BEAD, Lincoln NE 68588-0664.

Tel: 402-472-5611; E-mail: ecahoon2@unl.edu

Hernán Ceballos

Hernán Ceballos
Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT)
Cali, Colombia
E-Mail: h.ceballos@cgiar.org

John Fellman

John Fellman
Department of Horticulture
Washington State University
Johnson Hall 51
Pullman, WA, USA
E-Mail: fellman@mail.wsu.edu

Simon Gichuki

Simon Gichuki
Kenya Agricultural Research Institute
KARI Biotechnology Centre
P.O. Box 14733
Nairobi, Kenya
E-mail:
stgichu@yahoo.co.uk

Bussie Maziya-Dixon

Bussie Maziya-Dixon
International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
PMB 5320, Ibadan Oyo State, Nigeria
E-mail:
b.maziya-dixon@CGIAR.ORG

Peng Zhang

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

Wilhelm Gruissem

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

Daniel Schachtman

Daniel Schachtman
Monsanto / Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
975 North Warson Road
St. Louis, MO 63132, USA
E-mail:
dschachtman@danforthcenter.org

Dimuth Siritunga

Dimuth Siritunga
Department of Biology
University of Puerto Rico
Mayaguez, PR, USA
E-mail: siritunga@uprm.edu

Nigel Taylor

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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