Symposium on "Microbial identification :
an integrative approach"

Friday December 17th, 1999

K.U.Leuven, Gasthuisberg, GA

Programme :

08.30 h. Registration

09.00 h. Welcome address

09.15 h. Identification of non-culturable micro-organisms

K.H. Sleifer, U. München, Germany

10.00 h. Bio-informatics: a new discipline emerging

Luc Vauterin

10.45 h. Coffee

11.15 h. "Virus plagues: the battle moves to the molecular level"

T. Barrett institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Laboratory, Woking, Surrey, U.K.

12.00 h. General assembly BSM and Lunch

13.30 h. Poster session with poster discussion groups

15.15 h. Short oral communication of selected posters

15.45 h. The application of chip technology in genomic fingerprinting

T. Gingeras, Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA, USA

16.30 h. The Agrobacterium plasmid - 25 years later

M. Van Montagu, R.U.G., Gent, Belgium

17.15 - 17.30 h. conclusive remarks

Certificate for doctoral students will provided on request.

Registration fee (inclusive coffee and lunch) for non-members: 750.- BEF

Info: Secretariat BSM, tel. 016/33.73.71; fax 016/33.73.40 - E-mail: Jozef.Anne@Rega.kuleuven.ac.be