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Speaker Presentations
Please click on the following speakers name to view their
presentation from ABIC 2006:

Mr Stephen Chase
Vice Consul and Trade Commissioner, Consulate General of
Canada, Sydney, Australia
Mr Craig Cormick
Biotechnology Australia
Dr Vibha Dhawan
TERI, India
Dr Andrew Kelly
BioPacfic Ventures Partners, New Zealand
Dr Roger Kemble
Crop Genetics Research, Syngenta Biotechnology Inc, USA
Dr Donald King
Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright, UK
Dr Ganesh Kishore
DuPont Agriculture and Nutrition, USA
Dr Ian Lewis
Pacific Biotechnology Pty Ltd, Australia
Dr Elspeth MacRae
SCION - New Zealand
Mr Jorge Mayer
Campus Technologies Freiburg, Germany
Professor Jennifer Thomson
University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Presentation
on Monday 7 August 2006
- Presentation on Wednesday 9 August 2006
Dr Peter Welters
Phytowelt Green Technologies GmbH, Germany
Prof Steve Wesselingh
Burnet Institute, Australia

Confirmed speakers include:
Plenaries:
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Dr. Alan Colman
Managing Director, ES Cells International Pte. Ltd., Singapore. |
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Dr. Ganesh Kishore
Vice President, Science and Technology, and Chief Biotechnology Officer, DuPont
Agriculture and Nutrition, USA. |
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Dr Juergen Logemann
Vice President Technology Management, BASF Plant Science GmbH, Germany |
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Professor Graham Mitchell
AO, Chief Scientist, Victorian
Department of Primary Industries and Director, FourSight
Associates Pty. Ltd., Australia. |
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Dr. Jagadish Mittur
Monsanto, India |
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Dr. Derek Russell
Principal Research Scientist,
Natural Resources Institute (NRI), United Kingdom. |
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Professor Jennifer Thomson
Head of Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town,
South Africa. |
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Dr. Robert Wall
Director, Gene Evaluation and
Genetic Mapping Laboratory, US Department of Agriculture, USA. |
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Professor Steve Wesselingh
Director,
The Burnet Institute, Australia. |
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Concurrent Sessions:
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Dr. Dieter Adam
Group General Manager Innovation, Livestock Improvement Corporation,
New Zealand |
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Professor Marilyn Anderson
Department
of Biochemistry, La Trobe University, Australia |
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Dr. Bill Barendse
Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Livestock
Industries, Australia. |
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Dr. Niall Byrne
Science Communication
Consultant, Science in Public, Australia |
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Dr. Johan Cardoen
Chief Executive
Officer, CropDesign, Belgium |
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Dr. Jan Chojecki
Managing Director of Plant Biotechnology Ltd., UK |
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Mr. Craig Cormick
Manager Public Awareness, Biotechnology Australia, Australia. |
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Dr. Gerard Davis
Managing Director,
Genetic Solutions Pty. Ltd., Australia. |
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Dr. Manny Delhaize
Principal
Research Scientist, CSIRO Plant Industries, Australia. |
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Dr. Vibha Dhawan
Director, TERI School of Advanced Studies, India. |
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Dr David Dutton
Director, Environment Strategies Section, Department
Of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia. |
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Dr. Judy Erratt
Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, Canada |
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Dr. Gary Fitt
Strategy Director,
CSIRO Entomology, Australia. |
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Professor Mike Goddard
Professorial
Fellow in Animal Genetics, The University of Melbourne and
the Department of Primary Industries, Victoria, Australia. |
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Dr. Geoff Gooley
Aquaculture Research Manager, Primary Industries Research Victoria, Australia. |
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Dr. Ben Hayes
Group Leader of Computational Biology, Department of Primary
Industries, Australia. |
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Professor Michael Holland
Director, Centre for Early Human Development, Monash
Institute for Medical Research, Australia. |
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Professor Ary Hoffmann
Department
of Genetics, University of Melbourne, Australia. |
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Dr. Andrew Kelly
BioPacific Venture Partners, New Zealand. |
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Dr. Brett Kettle
Chief Executive Officer, Cleveland BioSensors Pty Ltd, Australia |
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Dr. Andrzej Kilian
Diversity Arrays Technology, Australia. |
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Dr. Donald King
Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright, UK. |
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Dr. Wayne Knibb
Principal Research
Scientist of Bribie Island Aquaculture Research Centre, Australia. |
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Dr Evans Lagudah
CSIRO Plant Industry, Australia. |
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Professor Peter Langridge
CEO, The Australian Plant Functional Genomics Centre, Australia. |
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Dr Ian Lewis
Monash University, Australia. |
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Dr. Elspeth MacRae
Group Manager, Biomaterials Research, SCION - Next Generation
Biomaterials, New Zealand. |
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Dr Jorge Mayer
Golden Rice Project Manager, Campus Technologies Freiburg,
Germany. |
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Dr. John McEwan
Senior Research
Scientist, AgResearch, New Zealand. |
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Dr. Murray McLaughlin
formerly
CEO of Foragen, Canada.
(Dr. McLaughlin is the International
Patron for ABIC 2006). |
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Dr. Sue Meek
Office of the Gene Technology Regulator, Australia |
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Dr. Bill Meredith
Supervisory
Research Geneticist (Plants), USDA - Agriculture Research Services,
USA. |
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Dr. Henry Miller
Research Fellow, Hoover Institute, Stanford University, USA. |
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Professor Nancy Millis
AC, Emeritus Professor (University of Melbourne) and Chancellor (La Trobe
University), Australia. |
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Dr. Mike Nahan
Senior Fellow, Institute of Public Affairs, Australia
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Dr. Richard Newcombe
Hort Research,
New Zealand. |
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Dr. Ashley O'Sullivan
President & CEO, Ag-West Bio Inc, Canada. |
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Dr. John Oakeshott
Strategy Director, CSIRO Entomology, Australia. |
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Dr. Rangsun Pampai
Lecturer, Institute of Agricultural Technology, Thailand. |
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Dr. Andrew Powell
Chief Executive Officer, Asia BioBusiness Pty Ltd, Singapore |
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Professor Sakkie Pretorius
Managing Director, Australian Wine Research Institute, Australia |
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Mr Selwyn Snell
CEO, Single Vision Grains, Australia. |
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Professor German Spangenberg
Director of The Plant Biotechnology Centre, Australia (Professor
Spangenberg is the Scientific Patron for ABIC 2006). |
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Mr John Stewart
R&D Manager, PGG Whrightson Seeds, New Zealand. |
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Dr. Gord Surgeoner
President, Ontario Agri-Food Technologies, Canada. |
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Professor Morakot Tanticharoen
Director, BIOTEC, Thailand. |
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Dr. Peter Waterhouse
Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Plant Industries,
Australia. |
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Dr. Diane Webster
Burnet Institute, Australia |
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Professor Jocelyn Webster
Executive
Director, AfricaBIO, South Africa. |
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Associate Professor Peter Williamson
CRC For Innovative Dairy Products |
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Associate Professor Paul Wood
Senior Director VMRD, Pfizer Australia, Australia. |
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