StrathKirn provides technical, marketing, and business consulting services in the growing area of biotechnology and genomics. In addition, we specialize in strategic developments around the application of biotechnology to primary production systems, work with a broad range of crop trait types, and applications in bioenergy, biofuels, bioprocessing, and renewable resources.

UPCOMING BIOTECH CONFERENCES

Plant and Animal Genome XVI Conference January 12-16, 2008 Town & Country Convention Center San Diego, California

Biotech - General
(Biotech companies are listed in the Companies section)

	AgBios Public policy, regulatory, and risk assessment for biotechnology
	AgNIC University of Maryland gateway to agricultural biotechnology information.
	APHIS -- USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service The regulation of genetically engineered plants and microorganisms.
	BBRSC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, UK.
	Biotechnology Industry Organization BIO represents over 850 companies and organizations.
	Checkbiotech.org Provides forum for discussions on agbiotech.
	Council for Biotechnology Information Explore the promises and advances of biotechnology.
	Forum on Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture FAO e-forum
	CropGen Scientific information on crop biotechnology, primarily as a contribution to the UK public debate
	Essential Biosafety Scientific and regulatory information about genetically modified crops and food.
	Food Safety Network Information on food safety, including agricultural biotechnology, housed at the University of Guelph, Canada
	GMA Public Policy   Grocery Manufacturers of America.
	Institute for Plant Genomics and Biotechnology At Texas A&M.
	ICGEB International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology: based in Italy
	Information Systems for Biotech. Information on biotech research, regulatory issues and biosafety: based at Virginia Tech.
	Food Safety Information   International Food Information Council: food biotechnology.
	International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) Benefits of agricultural biotechnologies to developing countries, and details about global GM crop acres.
	Nature News News by the science journal Nature's writing team; click the biotechnology news channel
	NASC Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre: seed and genomic information on arabidopsis.
	Plant Tissue Culture Information A virtual repository of virtually any type of information about in vitro culture of plants, at Texas A&M.
	Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment Biological communication and signal transfer portal managed by AAAS (bio-communication is likely to become the model for advanced communication technology development)
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Genomics

	Arabidopsis Information Resource The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR)
	Barley Genome North American Barley Genome Mapping Project: multi-institutional (U.S. and Canada).
	Chicken Genome (US Poultry Gene Mapping Project) Chicken Genome at Iowa State. Poultry Genome at Michigan State.
	Compositae Genome Project Lettuce and sunflower databases.
	CSHL Sequencing Lita Annenberg Hazen Genome Center at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
	Dendrome Genome database for forest trees.
	GrainGenes Database for information on wheat, barley, oats, rye, tritacle.
	Gramene A comparative genome mapping resource for monocot grains
	Institute for Plant Genomics and Biotechnology At Texas A&M.
	International Triticeae Mapping Initiative The International consortium. The EST database
	John Innes Centre Databases JIC maintains cereals, brassica, pisum, arabidopsis insertions, and streptomyces databases
	Legume Information System Genomic information on legume species.
	MaizeGDB The Maize Genetics and Genome Database (housed at Iowa State Univ)
	Mouse Genome The Jackson Laboratory mouse genome database.
	National Center for Biotechnology Information Genomics databases, and GenBank, hosted by the National Institutes of Health.
	NASC Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre: repository for seed and information on arabidopsis.
	PIGBASE U.S. pig gene mapping - National Animal Genome Research Program.
	Plant Gene Register Electronic Plant Gene Register for DNA sequences from plants, by ASPP
	Rice Genome Rice Genome Research Program centered at STAFF Institute, Tsukuba, Japan.
	SoyBase Soybean genetics database at Iowa State.
	TIGR The Institute for Genomic Research, and access to sequence data for several organisms.
	UK Cropnet UK Crop Plant Bioinformatics Network
	Washington University sequencing The Genome Sequencing Center at Wash U in St. Louis.

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