Enhancing plant resistance to disease - Optimisation of growth for food and biofuel - RNA silencing mechanisms in plants - The use of microarrays and bioinformatics.
The application of next-gen sequencing and advanced bioinformatics in drug discovery and development, disease research, clinical diagnostics, agricultural breeding, and evolution and conservation.
The congress will examine the latest strategies, developments and case studies using the technologies to further research in areas including food microbiology, plant/ecology genomics and other novel applications.