Modern Biotechnology in a Changing World: Health, Environment and Regulation
BVL online symposium from 6 to 7 October 2021
Program
| PROGRAM DAY 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Time (CET) | Title | Speaker | Organization |
| 09:30 | Opening | Friedel Cramer | Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety, Berlin, Germany |
| 09:40 | Welcoming Speech | Lorenz Franken | Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Berlin, Germany |
| 09:50 | Introduction: Sustainability in a Globalized World – The Role of Modern Biotech | Detlef Bartsch | Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety, Berlin, Germany |
| 10:00 | Keynote Lecture: One Health, Green Deal, Farm to Fork - Perspectives of the European Union | Irene Sacristán Sanchez | European Commission, Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety, Brussels, Belgium |
| 10:20 | Coffee Break | ||
| Session 1: Sustainability and Human Health | |||
| 10:35 | Biomedicine's Share in Healthcare Improvement | Pablo Serrano | German Pharmaceutical Industry Association, Berlin, Germany |
| 10:50 | Gene Drive Applications to Fight Disease Vectors, Agricultural Pests and Invasive Species | Ernst Wimmer | Johann Friedrich Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany |
| 11:05 | Socio-Economic Costs of Postponing a Decision: The Case of Non-Use of Gene Drive for African Countries | Justus Wesseler | Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands |
| 11:25 | Joint Discussion with all Speakers from Session 1 | ||
| 12:00 | Lunch Break | ||
| Session 2: Sustainability in Land Use and Food Production | |||
| 13:00 | Genetic Engineering and its Application in Livestock | Björn Petersen | Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Neustadt, Germany |
| 13:15 | Engineering Crops of the Future: Genetic Engineering Approaches to Develop Climate-resilient and Disease-resistant Plants | Ralf Wilhelm | Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Quedlinburg, Germany |
| 13:30 | Photosynthesis 2.0: Developing new-to-nature plants, microorganisms and artificial chloroplasts for improved CO2 capture with synthetic biology. | Tobias Erb | Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany |
| 13:45 | Genome Editing, Global Food Security and Bioeconomy | Matin Qaim | Director at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn |
| 14:05 | Joint Discussion with all Speakers from Session 2 | ||
| 14:40 | Coffee Break - End of Day 1 | ||
| 15:30-17:00 | Discussion Rounds | ||
| PROGRAM DAY 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Time (CET) | Title | Speaker | Organization |
| 09:00 | Greetings and First Day´s Summary | Detlef Bartsch | Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety, Berlin, Germany |
| 09:15 | Keynote Lecture: OECD Activities Towards International Harmonisation in the Safety Assessment of Biotechnology Products | Bertrand Dagallier | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris, France |
| 09:40 | Coffee Break | ||
| Session 3: Challenges and Perspectives for Governance & Administration | |||
| 09:45 | Limits of Clarity: What Does „Genetically Modified“ Mean? | Timo Faltus | Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany |
| 10:00 | Challenges and Perspectives for Regulation of Modern Biotechnology | Claudia Seitz | Centre for the Law of Life Sciences, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany |
| 10:15 | Modelling of Innovation – with Respect to Regulatory Aspects | Julia von Thienen | Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Digital Engineering, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany |
| 10:35 | Joint Discussion with all Speakers from Session 3 | ||
| 11:05 | Coffee Break | ||
| Session 4: Ecology and Economy in a Global Context | |||
| 11:30 | GMO Databases - Important Tools for Retracing Agricultural GMO-containing Products in Agrochains | Paulien Adamse | Wageningen Food Safety Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands |
| 11:45 | Challenges and Possible Approaches for the Detection and Identification of Genome Edited GMOs | Rupert Hochegger | Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Vienna, Austria |
| 12:00 | Economic and Environmental Consequences of the ECJ Genome Editing Judgement in Agricultural Commodity Trade | Ferike Thom | Department International Agricultural Trade and Development, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 12:15 | Living in Harmony with Nature - Implementing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety with a Special View on the Post-2020 Processes | Wadzanayi Goredema-Mandivenyi | Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal, Canada |
| 12:35 | Joint Discussion with all Speakers from Session 4 | ||
| 13:00 | Final Conclusions & Farewell | Detlef Bartsch | Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety, Berlin, Germany |
| 13:15 | End | ||