Dates: 12–16 September

    Venue: Benoni, South Africa

The ARM is an excellent forum for scientists in GCP projects to meet with their project teams and other GCP scientists, share their research results and jointly plan for the upcoming year. The Generation Challenge Programme’s 2007 Annual Research Meeting was held on African soil for the first time in Benoni, South Africa from 12–16 September.

We welcomed more than 150 scientists from around the world, who came to discuss and plan GCP activities. Most GCP Principal Investigators presented their projects. GCP wishes to thank the African Centre for Gene Technologies (ACGT) for hosting the 2007 Annual Research Meeting with support from the University of the Witwatersrand, an ACGT partner.Special thanks to Jane Morris ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ), the official ACGT contact for this event, assisted by Corné Lombard ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) of ACGT, as well as Vuyolwethu Mntonintshi, Pearl Cannel, and Brenda Lacey-Smith of the University of Witwatersrand.

The ARM was followed by the launch meeting, from 18–22 September, of the new project on 'Tropical Legumes Improvement for marginal environments in sub-Saharan Africa’ (TLI). A Bioversity/GCP Workshop "Managing the GCP in a Post-International Treaty World" was also held from 17th-18th September.