• Transgenic Food Course
• 2 Free-elective credits
• From 3 to 7 May 2011. 4.20 p.m.

Syllabus:

1. Introduction to Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering and Genomics.
2. Plant Biotechnology: the green line. Building transgenic plants.
3. Transgenic crops in Agro-industry. From genetic engineering to the plants of the future.
4. Biofuels. Plants to burn or plant to eat: a question of genetic design?
5. Farm and transgenic animals.
6. Transgenic microorganisms.
7. Sanitary evaluation of transgenic food.
8. Release to the environment of the transgenic crops: evaluation of the ecological risk.
9. Economic analysis of the transgenic food and crops.
10. Genomics and transgenic food.
11. Social debate about the transgenic food commercialization.

Planned position of the course: October in Centro de Cultura Contemporánea (Contemporary Culture Centre). 

This course will be lectured by the professors José Pío Beltrán and Daniel Ramón.

This course is co-organized by the Sociedad Valenciana de Ciencias de la Salud “Joan Baptista Peset” (Valencian Society of Health Sciences “Joan Baptista Peset”). 

Enrolment deadline: 3 May 2011.

C/ Santo Ferran, 12. Valencia.