News

• “Evaluation of Arabidopsis spp. as a production platform for molecular farming” - Rolinde Demeyer - PhD thesis

• Review paper on field trials with GM crops in the EU context “Field trials and tribulations—making sense of the regulations for experimental field trials of transgenic crops in Europe” (2012): http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-7652.2012.00681.x/full

• “Exploiting the natural variation of Arabidopsis thaliana for the seed-specific production of proteins” (2012) http://www.springerlink.com/content/lg8jl86551vx2333/

• “Characterization of the single-chain Fv-Fc antibody MBP10 produced in Arabidopsis alg3 mutant seeds” (2011) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21188635

• Review paper on chlororplast expression - “Chloroplasts as expression platforms for plant-produced vaccines“
  http://www.expert-reviews.com/doi/abs/10.1586/erv.10.78

• Pharma-Planta launches a pivotal phase I clinical trial of a plant-derived microbicidal protein
  http://www.pharma-planta.net/images/file/Pharma-Planta_Press_release_July2011.pdf
  http://www.pharma-planta.net/index.php?pg=50

• Rolinde Demeyer (ILVO, Belgium) obtained an ESR travel grant from COST to participate in PBVA 2011. In competition with 17 other candidates, Rolinde was elected to get the Early Stage Researcher Travel Grant. Rolinde Demeyer is a PhD student in the group of Bart Van Droogenbroeck, studying the further development of Arabidopsis as a seed-based platform for the production of recombinant proteins"

• COST participants produce informative leaflet

• COST Participants establish new European Molecular Farming company: ANGANY Genetics

• COST Participants Action FA0804 contribute to special Plant Biotechnology Journal issue: “Success Stories in Molecular Farming” – Editors Loïc Faye, Veronique Gomord (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118001657/home)