Faculty of science Cairo university, Cairo
21/11 - 23/11/2010
the Biotechnology/Biomolecular chemistry program intends to hold the 1st International Biotechnology Innovation Conference (a Three days conference), it will take place November 21st: 23rd, 2010. The opening ceremony will be held in the main celebration hall, and the rest of the scientific events will take place in the Cairo university conference center, while the social and entertainment events will be done outside of the campus.
International distinguished scientists will be invited to attend the conference and referee the inventions participating in the conference according to their specialization. Other young scientists (18-35 years old) from other universities and disciplines, locally and internationally, will be invited to present their own inventions and innovations in the different scientific fields.
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Invited Speakers:
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Dr. Frank Jiggins Royal Society University Research Fellow, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge Dr. Jiggins completed his PhD and a postdoctoral fellowship in genetics at the University of Cambridge, before moving to the University of Edinburgh to set up his own lab in 2003. In 2009 he returned to the Department of Genetics in Cambridge where he hold a Royal Society Research Fellowship and is a Fellow of Emmanuel College. His lab works on the genetics of insects and their parasites, focusing mainly on the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and its viruses, and the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti and the human diseases that it transmits. He is currently using new sequencing technologies to identify the genes that make these insects resistant to these parasites in natural populations. Dr. Judith Mink University Lecturer, Department of Zoology and Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology, Tutorial Fellow in Biology, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. Dr. Mink completed her PhD in genetics at the University of Georgia, Department of Genetics. Then she had her postdoctoral fellowship as Wenner-Gren Foundation Fellow at Uppsala University, Department of Evolutionary Biology, before moving to the University of Oxford to set up her own lab in 2008. She has broad interests in evolutionary biology, especially in the relationship between the genome and the phenotype, and she use genomic, transcriptomic, and comparative methods in order to understand how selection pressures, acting on the organism, shape the underlying genes and gene expression patterns. Much of her research focuses on the ways in which evolutionary pressures differ between females and males, and how this ultimately translates up to the dimorphic phenotypes that we observe in so many animals. Another major focus is the sex chromosomes, as this portion of the genome differs in dose between the sexes and can therefore be used to measure the strength and pervasiveness of male- and female-specific selection. She received two awards, Young Investigator Award, American Society of Naturalists in 2008 and Dobzhansky Prize, Society for the Study of Evolution in 2009. She ha man
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