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Biotechnology Risk Assessment: Bioethics and Gene Confinement
for Genetically Modified Plants
A Symposium
Thursday & Friday Free and Open to the Public
May 12-14, 2005
New Haven, Connecticut
Sponsored
by: Yale
University’s Interdisciplinary Bioethics Project & lifeedu.org
A G E N D A
Wednesday, May 11th - Arrival, New Haven, CT |
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5:00 – 7:00 PM -- Social Hour |
Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale
155 Temple Street
New Haven, CT 06510 |
Thursday, May 12th - Symposium |
Morning Session
Session Chair: Nancy Kerk |
Genetically Modified Plants for Producing Pharmaceutical Products: Scientific Advances, Bioethical and Policy Issues
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Yale University
Luce Hall
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06510 |
| 8:30 AM |
What is Needed to Realize the Benefits and Commercialize Plant Produced Products?
John Howard
Texas A&M University
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| 9:30 AM |
Controlling Expression of Genes and Traits for Biopharming Through Gene Switching Technologies
Roger Beachy
President, Danforth Center
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| 10:30 AM |
Environmentally Friendly Approaches for the Production of Vaccine Antigens and Biopharmaceuticals
Henry Danielle, Ph.D.
Pegasus Professor and Trustee Chair, University of Central Florida |
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| 11:30 AM |
Opportunities and Barriers to Plant-Derived Oral Vaccine for the Developing World
Charles J. Arntzen
Founding Director - Arizona Biodesign Institute and Florence Ely Nelson
Presidential Chair, Arizona State University
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| Lunch Break |
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM - Lunch Break |
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Afternoon Session
Session Chair: Albert Kausch |
Genetically Modified Plants for Producing Pharmaceutical Products: Scientific Advances, Bioethical and Policy Issues
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| 1:30 PM |
Everything Ends Up in the Food Web: Can Pharmaceuticals be Safely Engineered in Organisms?
Marti Crouch, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology, Indiana University |
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| 2:30 PM |
Can We Harm Nature by Genetically Modifying Plants to Produce Pharmaceutical Products?
Gary L. Comstock, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy; Director of Bioethics Institute, North Carolina State University
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| 3:30 PM |
Benefits and Risks of Growing Pharmaceutical Corn in the Corn Belt
Dermot Hayes
Pioneer Hi-Bred International Agribusiness Chair
Professor of Finance; Professor of Economics, Iowa State University |
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| 4:30 PM |
Gene Flow in Agricultural Landscapes and its Relevance to GMPP’s
Allison Snow
Professor, Ohio State University |
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| Evening |
Dinner and Social
Participants on their own |
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Friday, May 13th - - Symposium |
Morning Session
Session Chair: Albert Kausch |
Gene Confinement for Genetically Modified Grasses: Gene Flow and Grasses |
Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale
155 Temple Street
New Haven, CT 06510 |
| 8:30 AM |
Gene Flow Issues, Confinement, and GURTs
Harry Collins
VP. Technology Transfer
Delta and Pine Land
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| 9:15 AM |
The Biology of Grasses Related to Gene Flow
Virgil Meier
Biotechnologist
Risk Assessment Branch, USDA
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| 10:00 AM |
Pollen-mediated Gene Flow in Creeping Bentgrass
Lidia S. Watrud
Research Ecologist
US Environmental Protection Agency,
National Health & Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Western Ecology Division
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| 10:45 AM |
The Contribution of Seed Scatter to Gene Flow
Carol Mallory-Smith
Oregon State University
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| 11:30 AM |
Field Studies on Gene Flow in Transgenic Tall Fescue
Zeng-yu Wang, Ph.D.
Associate Scientist
Forage Improvement Division
The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc.
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| Lunch Break |
12:15 PM – 1:15 PM - Lunch Break |
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Afternoon Session
Session Chair: Ian Sussex
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Gene Confinement for Genetically Modified Grasses: Gene Flow and Grasses |
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| 1:15 PM |
Spatial and Temporal Control
Robert Harriman
Vice President, Biotechnology
The Scott’s Company
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| 2:00 PM |
Maternal Inheritance and Cytoplasmic Male Sterility as Mechanisms for Gene Confinement
Henry Danielle
Pegasus Professor and Trustee Chair,
University of Central Florida
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| 2:45 PM |
Male Sterility for Control of Gene Flow
Albert Kausch
Professor
Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Rhode Island
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| 3:30 PM |
Seed-based Gene Confinement Strategy
Melvin J. Oliver
Molecular Biologist
USDA ARS
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| 4:15 PM |
Total Sterility
Peter Mascia
Vice President, Product Development
Ceres, Inc.
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| Evening |
Dinner and Social
Participants on their own |
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Saturday, May 14th
BREAKOUT SESSION
Participation by Application Only
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Moderator:
Robyn Rose, USDA
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Gene Confinement for Genetically Modified Grasses |
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8:30 AM – 11:30 AM
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Session I
Confinement Issues with GE Grasses |
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12:00 NOON – 1:00 PM - Lunch Break |
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
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Session II
Confinement Issues with GE Grasses |
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| 5:30 P.M. |
Departure |
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