The 6th edition of the Science magazine Dance Your Ph.D. contest • Common genetic pathway of Parkinson’sdisease and melanoma • Exploiting bacteriophages for bioscience, biotechnology and medicine conference • Mouse Models of Disease: Using pathology techniques to enhance phenotyping outcomes conference • Publication of HeLa genome and transcriptome causes privacy controversy • The UK proposal to assuage the EU agricultural policies

A celery gene may protect roses from disease C 15th European Congress on Biotechnology C Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology Conference 2012 C FDA approved first cell therapy against wrinkles C Individualization of cancer treatment using personalized tumorgrafts C Mission Therapeutics Ltd, a new British spin-out company, raised ^6 million C Science Multimedia Center

1st IFReC/SIgN Winter School on Advanced Immunology - 2nd Congress of Biochemistry and Cell Biology in Cracow C6th Annual Meeting Biofuels 2011 - Conferences on personalized medicine in 2012 - Genome-wide atlas of transcription during maize development - p53 inactivation may lead to increased glucose consumption in cancer cells - Woodland strawberry genome sequenced

9th International Conference on Protein Stabilisation/Biodiesel market develops dynamically in the United States/Biotechnology report Biotech in the new EU Member States: an emerging sector/Blue biotechnology conference/European Human Genetics Conference 2012/GM crops cultivation in 2010/Series of online seminars about biotherapeutics

15th International Biotechnology Symposium in Korea - BIO-Europe 2012 partnering event - Breakthrough of the Year 2011 chosen by Science magazine - European Biodiesel Conference 2012 - Innovative sialic acid synthesis method from crustaceans - Introduction of nanopore sequencing technology - New York Genome Center

Semiconductor based DNA sequencing platform - One marker for multiple types of cancer - New Nature Middle East website - IV Congress of Polish Biotechnology and IV EUROBIOTECH 2011 in Kraków - Innovative approach to the noninvasive prenatal diagnosis - Conference Non-coding RNA, Epigenetic Memory, and the Environment - 2011 International Conference on Food Engineering and Biotechnology - 36th FEBS Congress

2nd International Congress on Biotechnology and Biodiversity (CIBB-2014) • 11th World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology • Concerns around the clinical application of next generation sequencing • Frontiers in Plant Research – workshop for early career scientists • The 16th European Congress on Biotechnology

Integrative high-throughput sequencing in personalized oncology - 10th Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting - 12th International Symposium on the Genetics of Industrial Microorganisms - Novel consolidated bioprocess for biofuel production in E. coli - Protein Engineering: New Approaches and Applications - Tomato genome published - Use of Google algorithm to identify pancreatic cancer biomarkers.