STARTING SHORTLY: Invitation to ICTP Colloquium on "The Pros and Cons of Genetically Modified Crops" by Prof. Jennifer Thomson, TODAY at 16.30 hrs (new title)

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ICTP is pleased to announce the forthcoming ICTP Colloquium on "The Pros 
and Cons of Genetically Modified Crops" to be given shortly by Prof. 
Jennifer Thomson.

Jennifer Thomson (PhD Rhodes) is Emeritus Professor in the Department of 
Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Cape Town. She held a 
post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard, was Associate Professor in Genetics 
at the University of the Witwatersrand, visiting scientist at MIT, and 
Director of the Laboratory for Molecular and Cell Biology for the CSIR, 
before becoming Head of the Department of Microbiology at UCT in 1988. 
She won the L’Oreal/UNESCO prize for Women in Science for Africa in 2004 
and has an Honorary Doctorate from the Sorbonne University. Her research 
field is the development of genetically modified maize resistant to the 
African endemic maize streak virus and tolerant to drought.

Prof. Thomson serves on the National Advisory Council on Innovation of 
the South African Minister of Science and Technology. She is the 
President of the Organisation for Women in Science for the Developing 
World (OWSD) and chairs the South African chapter. She is a newly 
elected fellow of TWAS.

*The talk will take place Today 21 February 2018 at 16:30 hrs, in the 
Budinich Lecture Hall, Leonardo Building, ICTP. *

More information including the abstract is available at: 
http://indico.ictp.it/event/8475/

The Colloquium will be livestreamed at ictp.it/livestream

Light refreshments will be served after the talk.

You are all very warmly invited to attend.

Office of the Director, ICTP

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