
In less than 3 weeks the 2009 Transgenic Animal Research Conference, organized by James D Murray (UC Davis) will start at the Granlibakken Conference Center, in Tahoe City, California (August 17-22). This conference is co-sponsored by ISTT.
The most updated scientific program of this conference includes presentations on a variety of issues related to animal transgenesis, animal welfare, biotechnology, use of transposons in transgenesis, use of zinc-finger nuclease strategies in transgenesis, ES and iPS cells in severals species, biosafety issues, risk analysis and environmental risk assessment, antibody production, protein production in the milk of transgenic animals, RNAi and amny additional topics. It will also include a US FDA/CVM workshop on the regulation of recombinant DNA constructs in genetically modified animals.
