NordGen Five Year Jubilee

NordGen Five Year Jubilee - 10 June 2013

To celebrate the fifth anniversary of NordGen some lectures was given to colleagues in the gene bank community and to the interested public. The purpose was to look back on a fruitful Nordic cooperation but also to highlight the challenges that the world is facing with food security in the future with an increased population.

Árni Bragason Director of NordGen introducing Åslaug Marie Haga, Director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust. The Global Crop Diversity Trust  is an independent international organization working to guarantee the conservation of crop diversity. The Trust plays a big role in the permanent protection for the world's food crop with the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
Future challenges of Genebanks in an international perspective, climate change, population growth   - Susan Mc Couch  Professor, Cornell University							Nordic cooperation – Nordic Institutes  - Annika Hahn-Englund, director Foreign Affairs Nordengrupp
Reflection on the Genetic Resource collaboration in the Nordic Countries  - Thorsteinn Tómasson former chair of board of NGB (Nordic Gene Bank)							National Plant Genetic Resource program for Sweden - Eva Jansson, SLU, POM
Other speachers was : Emerging opportunies for genomic research – what can we expect .  - Leif Andersson Professor, Dept. of Animal breeding and Genetics. Uppsala Nordic forests and climate change – are they adaptable?   - Heli Peltola Prof. in Silviculture,  University of Eastern Finland. The value of Animal genetic resources – The Nordic strength in animal breeding .  - Peer Berg, NordGen-Animals Plant Genetic resources – Prebreeding in Nordic countries .  - Morten Rasmussen, NordGen-Plants NordGen today and tomorrow .  - Áslaug Helgadóttir Professor, chair of NordGen

photo: S Solberg

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