16-20 July 2012
IAP was invited to attend the Meeting of Experts as a guest of the chairman of the meeting, Ambassador Delmi of Algeria. At the meeting Professor Andrzej Górski, Vice-President of the Polish Academy of Sciences and chair of the Biosecurity Working Group, presented a statement on behalf of the Working Group during the time set aside for non-governmental organizations to make presentations to the plenary. In cooperation with the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the Working Group organized a lunchtime side event on the particular S&T theme for 2012: “advances in enabling technologies, including high-throughput systems for sequencing, synthesizing and analyzing DNA; bioinformatics and computational tools; and systems biology.”