The SPSW Summer School: the global food crisis - how can plant sciences contribute?

23 - 26 June 2010, Mürren, Switzerland  Summer School 2010 Flyer [PDF / 61 KB]

Content

Nine billion people will populate the world in 2050. The challenge to feed this population without destroying the environment is of most critical importance. We, as plant scientists and responsible citizens not only can, but have the moral duty to actively contribute to the solution for the problem. The proposed summer school course aims at showing and developing the possibilities we have to achieve this goal.

Program

The program is now available here (pdf [PDF / 241 KB]).

Lecturers

To access the list of publications of the invited speakers click here

• Tony Fischer, honorary research fellow, CSIRO, Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia and Australian Capital Territory coordinator, The ATSE Crawford Fund

• Jaboury Ghazoul, ETH Zürich, Institute for Terrestrial Ecosystems, Switzerland

• Hans R. Herren, president of Millennium Institute, USA, and Biovision foundation

• Christian Körner, Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Switzerland

• Ingo Potrykus, Chairman Humanitarian Golden Rice Board and Network, and Professor Emeritus in Plant Sciences, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

• Zerihun Tadele, Tef Project Leader, University of Bern, Institute of Plant Science, Switzerland