| Sunday,
September 26 |
| 1.
Commercialisation and biosafety aspects of Bt and other
insecticidal crops |
| Chairs:Graham
Head (USA) & Kongming Wu (China) |
| Speakers: |
Kongming
Wu (China) |
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Implementation and Impact of Bt cotton in China |
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Graham
Head (USA) |
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Adapting insect resistance management strategies
for transgenic Bt Crops to developing world needs |
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Richard
Hellmich (Panelist) (USA) |
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Developing guidelines for monitoring non-target
effects of Bt crops |
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Gabor
Lovei (Panelist) (Denmark) |
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Selection procedure to study ecological impact
of GM plants: a case study of Bt-maize in Kenya |
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Joerg
Romeis (Panelist) (Switzerland) |
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Evaluating the impact of insect-resistant transgenic
plants on entomophagous arthropods in pre-market risk assessment |
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S.R.
Rao (India) |
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Effects of insect- resistant crops on non- target
organisms: Need for regional harmonization of biosafety guidelines. |
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| 2. Biosafety aspects of virus-resistant transgenic
crops |
| Chairs:
Ervin Balázs (Hungary) & Alison Power (USA) |
| Speakers: |
Alison
Power (USA) |
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Ecological risk assessment for virus-resistant
transgenic crops |
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Mark
Tepfer (France) |
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Recombination in cucumber mosaic virus
in transgenic and non-transgenic plants: in the lab, the greenhouse,
and the field |
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Edgar
Maiss (Germany) |
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Recombination and spatial
separation of potyviruses in transgenic plants and in mixed infections |
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Nilsa Bosque-Perez (USA) |
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Transgenic resistance to barley yellow dwarf virus
in wheat influences the biology and behavior of the vector Rhopalosiphum
padi |
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Marc
Fuchs (France) |
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Environmental safety assessment of virus-resistant
transgenic squash: Lessons and perspectives |
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Ian
Cooper (UK) |
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The hazard of ecological release in wild relatives
of transgenic TuMV tolerant brassicas |
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| Monday,
September 27 |
| 3.
North-South Workshop |
| Chairs:
Mark Tepfer (France) & Ariel Alvarez-Morales (Mexico) |
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 SOURCES
OF SUPPORT FOR BIOSAFETY RESEARCH IN THE SOUTH |
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Ryan
Hill (Canada) |
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Biosafety Research and the Biosafety Protocol |
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Fee
Chon Low (Malaysia) |
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UNEP-GEF
Projects on Capacity Building in Biosafety |
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Giuliano Degrassi (Italy) |
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GMO biosafety at the ICGEB: capacity building,
dissemination of information, and research |
| |
Charles Kessler (EU) |
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The
international and cooperative dimension of EU risk assessment
research on GMOs |
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Hector Quemada |
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Program for Biosafety Systems |
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IMPACT
OF PLANT-TO-PLANT GENE FLOW |
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Bao-Rong
Lu (China) |
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Environmental biosafety research in China: a rice
case study |
| |
Allison
Snow (USA) |
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Crop-weed
and crop-wild hybridization in rice in Vietnam: a progress
report |
| |
Gurling
Bothma (South Africa) |
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US-Africa Collaborative Research and Capacity Building
on Risk Assessment and Management of Gene Flow in Sorghum |
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Baltazar
Baltazar (Mexico) |
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Maize
and Teosinte Biodiversity Studies in Mexico |
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V.S.
Siva Reddy (India) |
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Genetically modified crop plants: Biosafety concerns
and the role of chloroplast genetic engineering |
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EFFECTS
OF Bt CROPS ON INSECTS |
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Zhen
Zhu (China) |
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Development of Transgenic Rice with High Resistance
to Lepidopteran Insects and Study on Biosafety |
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Tayyab
Husnain (Pakistan) |
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Risk
assessment transgenic rice |
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Jairo
Rodriguez (Columbia) |
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Gauging the effect of transgenic maize and cotton
on non-target soil arthropods in Colombia |
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Eliana
Fontes (Brazil) |
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Risk
Assessment of Bt Cotton in Brazil – Challenges,
Opportunities and Preliminary Results |
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Yufa
Peng (China) |
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Bt. cotton |
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Jean-Luc
Hoffs (South Africa) |
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Impact of Bt cotton |
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OTHER
AREAS OF INTEREST |
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Bernal
Valverde (Costa Rica) |
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Agroecological
implications of herbicide resistant rice varieties in Latin
America |
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Gnissa
Konate (Burkina Faso) |
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Rice resistant to Rice yellow mosic virus |
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Deise
Capalbo (Brazil) |
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Embrapa
Biosafety Project – BioSeg |
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Atanas
Atanassov (Bulgaria) |
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Environmental risk assessment studies in Bulgaria |
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Ervin
Balázs (Hungary) |
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Emerging Biosafety Research in the Central and
Eastern European Countries |
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| Day end: press conference |
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|
Evening
session:
4. How to conduct an Environmental Risk Assessment |
| Chairs:
Alan Gray (UK) & Morven McLean (Canada) |
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| Tuesday,
September 28 |
| 5.
Biosafety issues of the next generation of transgenic crops |
| Chairs:
Phil Dale (UK) & Eugenia Barros (South Africa) |
| Speakers: |
Yuri
Gleba (Germany) |
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Use
of viral replicons for the industrial scale expression of
heterologous proteins |
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Kazuko
Yamaguchi-Shinozaki (Japan) |
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Abiotic
stress tolerance |
| |
Harry
Kuiper (Netherlands) |
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Improving abiotic stress tolerance in crops |
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Virginia
Ursin (USA) |
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Food
Safety and Nutritional Aspects of Modification of Crop Quality |
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Rachel
Chikwamba (USA/Zimbabwe) |
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Production
of pharmaceuticals in crop plants |
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| 6.
Strategies for biological confinement in plants |
| Chairs:
Bao-Rong Lu (China) & Henry Daniell (USA) |
| Speakers: |
Henry Daniell (USA) |
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Transgene
containment via maternal inheritance and male sterility |
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Melvin
Oliver (USA) |
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Seed
based strategies for transgene containment |
| |
Jonathan
Gressel (Israel) |
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Mitigating
transgene flow - successes |
| |
Mark
Curtis (Switzerland) |
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Apomixis Technology Development: Transgene Containment
and Fixation of Heterosis |
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Dennis Strayer (USA) |
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Containment
Management Systems |
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| Evening poster session |
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| Wednesday,
September 29 |
| 7.
GMO regulations worldwide |
| Chairs:
Julian Kinderlerer (UK) & Detlef Bartsch (FGR) |
| Speakers: |
Detlef
Bartsch (Germany) |
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Separation
of risk assessment from risk management –how
science feeds regulation |
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Philip Macdonald (Canada) |
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Science and regulation of molecular farming |
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Gregory
Jaffe (USA) |
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Biosafety
Regulation in the North and South |
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Birte Boelts (Danemark) |
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Biosafety data improving the regulation of Co-Existence |
| Panellists |
Morven McLean (Canada) |
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Martha Kandawa-Schulz (Namibia) |
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Willy de Greef (Belgium) |
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Julian
Kinderlerer (UK) |
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Summary of the session |
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| 8.
Microbial communities affected by GM plants or GM inoculants |
| Chairs:
Kornelia Smalla (FGR) & Leda Mendonca-Hagler (Brazil) |
| Speakers: |
Timothy M. Vogel (France) |
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Horizontal gene transfer from transplastomic plants
to bacteria |
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Jim Germida (Canada) |
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Microbial communities influenced by transgenic
oilseed rape |
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Welington Luiz de Araújo
(Brazil) |
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Microbial communities of transgenic sugar cane |
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Jan Dirk van Elsas (Netherlands) |
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Microbial communities affected by transgenic T4-lysozyme
expressing potatoes? |
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Jeffry S. Buyer (USA) |
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The effects of Bt corn on soil and rhizosphere
microbial communities |
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|
| Evening banquet |
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| Thursday,
September 30 |
| 9.
Commercialisation and biosafety aspects of GM fish |
| Chairs:
William Muir, (USA) & Joseph McGonigle (USA) |
| Speakers: |
Norm
Mclean (UK) |
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Biological Containment of Transgenic Fish |
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Muir, W. (USA) |
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Generalized Methods of Environmental Risk Assessment
from Genetically Engendered Organisms |
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Bob Devlin (Canada) |
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Variables influencing risk assessment data derived
from laboratory-contained GH transgenic coho salmon |
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Joseph McGonigle (USA) |
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Biosafety in the Marketplace: Regulated Product
Introduction as Applied Risk Management |
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| 10.
Systems Approach in biosafety debates and biosafety communication |
| Chairs:
Klaus Ammann (Switzerland) & Kristina Sinemus (FGR) |
| Speakers: |
Biljana
Papazova Ammann (Switzerland) |
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A philosophical look on the interface between discourse, science
and society |
| |
Jeff Conklin (USA) |
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The
Systems Approach, new approaches in difficult debates about
wicked problems |
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Matthias
Pohl (Germany) |
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Practical
experience in communicating biosafety issues - www.biosicherheit.de
- a German approach. |
| |
Nares Damrongchai (Thailand) |
| |
Practical
experience in communicating biosaftey issues: How
to communicate science and society? - Practical experience
of the developing world |
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| Evening
session: |
| Results
of the ISBGMO to the public |
