Technology Platform ‘Plants for the future’

 

 

  

 

Working Group – Products

 

Chair:                Hans Kast, BASF, Europabio, Germany

Co-Chair I:         Lothar Willmitzer, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Golm, Germany

Co-Chair II:        Dick Toet, Unilever, The Netherlands

Members:          Julian Ma, Hotung Chair of Molecular Immunology, St. George's Hospital Medical School,

                           London, UK

                          Cherryleen Garcia-Lindgren, M-Real, Sweden

TP Secretariat:  Waldemar Kuett, EC DG E, Brussels

 

The Products Working Group held its Workshop on 2 and 3 November 2004 in Brussels

 

 

The experts invited for the workshop were:

Anne-Katrin Bock, EC, JRC, IPTS Inst for Prospective Technological Studies, Spain; Simon Bright, University of Warwick, UK; Teodoro Cardi, CNR - IGV, Inst of Plant Genetics, Portici, Italy; Marc Cornelissen, Bayer Cropscience, Gent, Belgium; Steffen Daebeler, Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe, Germany

Michel Debrand, BIOGEMMA, France; Jean Denarie, CNRS-INRA, Lab. Des Interactions Plantes-Microorganismes, Toulouse, France; François Gatel, Arvalis, France; Dietmar Gruell, Suedzucker, Germany

Dirk Inzé, Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University, Belgium; Dolors Ludivid, Dept.de genetica Molecular, Inst. De Biologia Molecular de Barcelona, Spain; Leo Melchers, Syngenta, The Netherlands

Kirsi-Marja Oksman-Caldentey, VTT Biotechnology, Espoo, Finland; Johan Sanders, EFB, Valorisation and Plant Production Chains, Wageningen Univ, The Netherlands; Steffen Schillberg, Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology Aachen, Germany; Ralf-Michael Schmidt, BASF, Germany; Alison Smith, John Innes Centre Norwich, Metabolic Biology, UK; Wim Soetaert, Lab industrial Microbiology and Biocatalysis, Univ. Ghent, white biotech platform, Belgium; Mark Stitt, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Golm, Germany; Guenter Strittmatter, KWS, Germany; Brian Thomas, HRI Wellesbourne, Warwick, UK;

Herman van Mellaert, Cropdesign, Gent, Belgium; Monique van Wordragen, Agrotechnology and Food innovations, Wageningen UR, The Netherlands