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A monthly newsletter by the Malaysian Biotechnology Information Centre
Released on 15th June 2006

In this issue:

- Message from the Director
- News at home
- News around the world
- Biotechnology at Monash
- The verdict on Pharmacogenetics
- BICviews
- Events calendar


 

Message from the Director

Dear valued subscribers

This month, we are glad to announce the winner of our Logo Design Competition. Check out the lucky subscriber in the announcement column. We take this opportunity to thank all the other contestants who sent us their creative designs. The new logo will be revealed at a later date.

The “International Symposium on Molecular Farming in Plants” that MABIC co-organized with the Centre for Research in Biotechnology for Agriculture (CEBAR) and International Islamic University Malaysia was successfully concluded last week. A brief report of this symposium has been posted on our website.

The other event MABIC is proudly supporting is Biotechnology Asia 2006, which is organized by Protemp. This will be held on the 9th – 11th August 2006 in Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur. For more details on this event, please view our event calendar.

We hope you enjoy this issue of BiCalert and for those who would like to sign in as fully profiled members, kindly click here.

As usual we welcome your comments, suggestions and feedback. We look forward to hearing from you.


Yours sincerely

Mahaletchumy Arujanan
Program Director


Contact Information

The Malaysian Biotechnology Information Centre (MABIC)
c/o Monash University Malaysia, No 2, Jalan Kolej,
Bandar Sunway, 46150 Petaling Jaya,
Selangor, Malaysia

Tel / Fax: +603-5880-4384
Email: BICalerts@bic.org.my or info@bic.org.my


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Announcement

Logo Design Competition

It is our pleasure to announce the winner of the Logo Design Competition who have met all our requirements and submitted a logo that is unique and inline with the spirit of MABIC.

Our heartiest congratulations to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zulqarnain Mohamed from the Institute of Biological Sciences, Universiti Malaya, who won RM1000 for his creation.

The new logo will be disclosed at a later date. We thank all other contestants.

Agricultural Biotechnology International Conference (ABIC)

6 – 9 August 2006

Melbourne Convention Centre, Victoria, Australia

The Agricultural Biotechnology International Conference (ABIC) is the major global conference for agricultural biotechnology. Melbourne, Australia will host this year’s conference which is held for the first time in the Southern Hemisphere. The conference is hosted and sponsored by the Victorian State Government and AusBiotech.

With the theme “Unlocking the Potential of Agricultural Biotechnology”, the focus of the conference will be on both innovation and the commercialization. ABIC 2006 will address two most important challenges in agbiotech: the public perception of what ‘biotechnology’ means; and the lack of effective commercialization of innovative technologies.

For more details on this conference, visit ABIC 2006

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