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The CBGP Public Seminar Series is a weekly conference for students and researchers in the UPM community, to share research experiences in the field of the Biotechnology and Genomic plants.

The seminars give students the chance to see research work all over the globe is done. Next guest speakers in October are Prof. Julian K-C. Ma, Prof. Eckhard Hofmann and Prof. Jesús de la Cruz.

Prof. Julian K-C. Ma will speak on October, 16th, about “Prospects and challenges of plant made pharmaceuticals”. He is researcher at the Institute for Infection and Immunity, St. George´s Hospital Medical School, London, UK.

Prof. Eckhard Hofmann, University of Bochum, Germany, will speak on October, 23rd, about “Enzymatic control of stereoselective biosynthesis of jasmonates and lignans: What structural biology can tell us (and what not)”.

On October, 30, Prof. Jesús de la Cruz, Universidad de Sevilla-IBIS, España, will give the speech titled “Assembly of cytoplasmic ribosomes: current status and perspectives”.

All the events will take place at 12.30 in the CBGP (CEI Montegancedo).

About CBGP

The Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics (Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, CBGP) is a joint UPM-INIA research centre after the joint agreement was signed by both institutions in July 2006.

CBGP was created with a double goal: to carry out the most advanced research aimed at understanding plant function, and to contribute to fulfil the needs of the economic agents within the agriculture, forestry and environment productive sectors that are potential users of this research. CBGP also seeks to have an educational role, and strives to become a reference centre for training of both scientists and technicians in the fields of plant biotechnology and genomics, an area not fully developed in Spain at present.

More info: www.cbgp.upm.es