ICGEB - News

17/11/2008

ICGEB Board of Governors 2007, Trieste, Italy

ICGEB Board of Governors, 15th session

The ICGEB Council of Scientific Advisers and Board of Governors sessions 2008 held at the Cape Town Component, South Africa, between 24-28 November. Prof. Francisco E. Baralle, confirmed as ICGEB Director-General for an additional five years.

04/11/2008

Renowned biochemist, Irwin C. Gunsalus, first Director of ICGEB, dies at 96

Irwin C. Gunsalus, the first Director of the ICGEB from 1986-1989, has died at his home in Andalusia, Ala, USA

29/09/2008

ICGEB Meetings 2008 - 2009

2009 Meetings and Courses Calendar now available. May 2009, Workshop on Proteomic Characterization: Registration now open.

27/06/2008

ICGEB Grant from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

ICGEB receives a grant of USD 3 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to strengthen and expand biosafety systems in Sub-Saharan Africa to help African regulatory bodies ensure the safety of crop biotechnology.

29/05/2008

Mr. Mbeki, President of the Republic of South Africa, and Prof. F. Baralle, ICGEB Director-General, ICGEB Cape Town, 10 September 2007

ICGEB Cape Town Component Established

UN Secretary-General communicates entry into force of the Protocol to the ICGEB Statutes, officially establishing the third Component in Cape Town.

07/04/2008

Khalifa International Date Palm Award

Under the patronage of the President of the United Arab Emirates. ICGEB's UAE Affiliated Centre, the Date Palm Research and Development Programme, welcomes the initiative as strengthening collaboration in the field of date palm cultivation. See also Third International Date Palm Exhibition, Al Ain, UAE, to be held 22-26 October 2008.

01/04/2008

Trial of strength between rice and bacteria

ICGEB: New discoveries from the Bacteriology Group led by Vittorio Venturi on the relationship between rice plants and their infesting bacteria, some of which are also pathogenic for human beings.

01/04/2008