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Seminar Presentations

MONDAY, JUNE 16, 2008
ISTA Seminar on Specified Trait Seed Testing

08:20 - 08:30 Welcome by the Chairman of the Seminar – Christoph Haldemann, ALP, Switzerland, Chairman of the ISTA GMO Task Force (119 KB)

08:30 - 09:00 The international seed trade and the difference in the use of GMO seeds – challenges and consequences – Marcel Bruins, Secretary General of the ISF (1157 KB)

09:00 - 09:30 The situation in Europe – report from the Co-Extra project – Yves Bertheau, INRA, France (1121 KB)

09:30 - 10:00 The GMO situation in a GMO producing country: Argentina – Ana Laura Vicario, Laboratorio Central de Análisis de Semillas, Instituto Nacional de Semillas, Argentina (807 KB)

10:30 - 11:00 Latest developments in the area of detection methods – an overview – Enrico Noli, LaRAS, Italy (1048 KB)

11:00 - 11:30 How to use Seedcalc for the design of testing plans – Sylvain Grégoire, GEVES, France and Kirk Remund, Monsanto, US (667 KB)

11:30 - 12:00 The design of appropriate testing plans for testing of adventitious presence of GM seed in non-GM seed lots – Sylvain Grégoire, GEVES, France (213 KB)

12:00 - 12:30 The design of appropriate testing plans for the testing of genetic purity of a seed lot in the case of a GM variety – Kirk Remund, Monsanto, US (163 KB)

13:30 - 14:00 Units of measurement in specified trait testing in seed – the influence of different units on the test result – Sylvain Grégoire, GEVES, France and Kirk Remund, Monsanto, US (375 KB)

14:00 - 14:45 Assessing stacked genes in conventional seed lots – Jean-Louis Laffont, Pioneer, France (348 KB)

15:15 - 15:45 Testing for specified traits in seed – The ISTA strategy and the ISTA aim – Christoph Haldemann, ALP, Switzerland, Chairman of the ISTA GMO Task Force (220 KB)

15:45 - 16:15 The ISTA Accreditation Programme for laboratories testing for specified traits in seed – Martina Roesch, ISTA Accreditation Department (320 KB)

16:15 - 16:45 ISTA GM proficiency tests: strategies and results after 9 rounds – Gerhard Schuon, ISTA Techincal Committee Department (318 KB)

16:45 - 17:15 Retrospective analysis of the ISTA GM proficiency tests – Jean-Louis Laffont, Pioneer, France (263 KB)

17:15 - 17:30 Adjournment by the Chairman – Christoph Haldemann, ALP, Switzerland, Chairman of the ISTA GMO Task Force (96 KB)


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