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Wednesday

26th April 2006

 

Nobel Day

8:30

Registration (During all days of the conference)

10:00-11:30

Conference Opening Session
(Featuring international and national eminent figures)

11:30-12:00

Break

12:00-13:30

Session1: On the Quality of Science

13:30-14:30

Lunch Break

14:30-16:00

Session 2: Science for Humanity

16:00-16:30

Break

16:30-18:00

Session 3: Technology of Hope
18:00-18:30 Break

18:30-19:30 Evening Event

Nobel Round Table

Thursday

27th April 2006

 

Plenary Sessions

8:00
Registration (During all days of the conference)

9:00-10:30

Plenary Session 1: Health Discoveries

Track 1: Drought Plenum 1

10:30-11:00

Break

11:00-12:30

Plenary Session 2: Launching of the Disease Control Priorities Project Drought Plenum 2

12:30-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-15:00

Plenary Session 3: Agri-food and Environment: Meeting the Global Challenge

Track 2: Ethics

15:00-15:30

Break

15:30-17:00

Plenary Session 4: Africa Biotechnology Panel

Track 3: Diabetes Plenum 1

17:00-17:30 Break

17:30-18:30

Launching of the «  La main à la Pâte », Arabic Website Track 3: Diabetes Plenum 2

 

Friday

28th April 2006

 

Parallel Sessions

8:00
Registration (During all days of the conference)

9:00-10:30

Panel A-1: Biotechnology for Affordable Health Care

Panel B-1: Environmental Issues & Agriculture

Diabetes Plenum 3

10:30-11:00

Break

11:00-12:30

Panel A-2: How the New Life Sciences can respond to Today’s Challenges

Panel B-2 :Rethinking Priorities in Food & Agriculture

Diabetes Plenum 4

12:30- 13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-15:00

Panel A-3 : Public Health and Private Medicine: The Role of Science

Panel B-3: Regulations for Food, Agriculture & the Environment

Diabetes Plenum 5

15:00-15:30

Break

15:30-17:00

Panel A-4 : International Collaborations

Panel B-4: Old & New Issues: a review of some key points

Diabetes Plenum 6

17:00-17:30 Break

17:30-19:00
Evening Event

CEO Panel Diabetes Plenum 7

Saturday

29th April 2006

8:00
Registration (During all days of the conference)

9:00-10:30

Panel A-5: Biotechnology in the developing world: friend or foe? Panel B-5 Agri-Food & Environment Food Production & Biofortification

10:30-11:00

Break

11:00-12:30

Plenary Session 5: Super Course

12:30-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-15:00

Plenary Session 6: Reporting on Parallel Sessions 1- Health, 2- Agri-Food & Environment, 3- Diabetes, 4- Drought, 5- Ethics, 6- EAGLES

15:00-15:30

Break

15:30-17:00

Plenary Session 7: Closing Session