Saturday, 12 April 2008 | 08:00 | Registration |
Sunday, 13 April 2008
Nobel Day | 08:00 | Registration
(During all days of the Conference) |
11:00-12:30 | Conference Opening Session
(Featuring international and national eminent figures) |
12:30-13:00 | Break |
13:00-14:30 | Session 1: Science for Innovation |
14:30-15:30 | Lunch Break |
15:30-17:00 | Session 2: Science Versus Global Challenges |
17:00-17:30 | Break |
17:30-19:00 | Evening Event: Nobel Round Table |
Monday, 14 April 2008
Plenary Sessions | 08:00 | Registration
(During all days of the Conference) |
09:00-10:30 | Plenary Session 1: The Developing World’s Technology Divide | Track 1 :
Diabetes Supercourse for the MENA Region |
10:30-11:00 | Break |
11:00-12:30 | Plenary Session 2: Grand Global Challenges | Track 2 :
IPR Serving Innovation |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch Break |
13:30-15:00 | Plenary Session 3: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: Widening the Perspective | Track 3 :
European Commission Funded Programmes for Research and Innovation |
15:00-15:30 | Break |
15:30-17:00 | Plenary Session 4: Bioenergy and Biofuels: the New Clean Era | Track 4 :
Problems Hindering Biotechnology Research in the Arab Region Plenum 1 |
17:00-17:30 | Break |
17:30-19:30 | Plenary Session 5: EAGLES Food Symposium | Track 4 :
Problems Hindering Biotechnology Research in the Arab Region
Plenum 2 |
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Parallel Sessions | 08:00 | Registration
(During all days of the Conference) |
09:00-10:30 | Panel A-1: Nanotechnology: Smaller Technology… Bigger Impact
(Health) | Panel B-1:
Natural Resource Management Building Public Resilience, Rebuilding Lives (Environment) | Panel C-1:
Global Convergence in Food Supply 1
(EAGLES) (Food and Agriculture) | Track 5 :
Supercourse |
10:30-11:00 | Break |
11:00-12:30 | Panel A-2:
Viral Hepatitis: Promise Awaits the Stealth Epidemic
(Health) | Panel B-2:
Water Resources: the Global Concern
(Environment) | Panel C- 2:
Global Convergence in Food Supply 2
(EAGLES) (Food and Agriculture) | Track 6 :
Project on South-to-South Collaboration for Genomics Innovation
Plenum 1 |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch Break |
13:30-15:00 | Panel A-3: Tuberculosis: Comprehensive Overview and Challenges
(Health) | Panel B-3: Climate Change: Impacts and Responses
(Environment) | Panel C-3: European Research Policy and Global Food Security
(EAGLES) (Food and Agriculture) | Track 6 :
Project on South-to-South Collaboration for Genomics Innovation
Plenum 2 |
15:00-15:30 | Break |
15:30-17:00 | Panel A-4: New Tools in Medicine: A World of Possibilities
(Health) | Panel B-4: Environmental Safety and Biotechnology: Trusting Biotechnology
(Environment) | Panel C-4:
EAGLES Food Symposium Conclusions and Recommendations (Food and Agriculture) | Track 7 :
Scientific Egyptian Partnerships |
17:00-17:30 | Break |
17:30-19:00
Evening Event | Evening Event 2: CEO Panel: | Track 8 :
PRRI – Participation of Public Researchers in Cartagena Protocol and the Biodiversity Convention |
Wednesday, 16 April 2008 | 08:00- | Registration
(During all days of the Conference) |
09:00-10:30 | Panel A-5: Gene Modifications and Advances in Recombinant Technologies
(Health) | Panel B-5: Home Grown Biotech Firms
(Environment) | Panel C-5: Agricultural Biotechnology: Food for a Better World
(Food and Agriculture) | Track 9 :
Bio-ethics: Racing up the Road to Research |
10:30-11:00 | Break |
11:00-14:00 | Plenary Session 7: Reporting and Closing Session |