COVID-19’s Global Impact: Interdisciplinary perspectives from inside GES, looking out | GES Colloquium
Join us for a discussion with an all-star cast of GES faculty, scholars and graduate students as they reflect upon COVID-19, our preparedness, response, and its impacts on our global community. Final Colloquium of the semester!...
Margo Bagley – “What’s Yours is Mine and What’s Mine is Mine”: Digital Sequence Information, Patents, and Benefit-sharing Obligations | GES Colloquium
Margo Bagley, JD, joins us from Emory University School of Law to explore issues surrounding international benefit-sharing obligations arising from the use of digital sequence information in synthetic biology research, with a focus on agricultural biotechnology....
Jean Goodwin – Scientists’ Responsibilities in the Public Sphere: the Case of COVID Mask Recommendations | GES Colloquium
A case study of a current COVID-19 debate will provide an opportunity to reflect on scientists' public responsibilities....
Jean Beagle Ristaino – Tackling the Global Challenges of Emerging Plant Diseases | GES Colloquium
Emerging plant diseases threaten many foods crops including those we eat for breakfast such as coffee, oranges, banana and potatoes. Plant pathogens cause global losses estimated to be as high as $33 billion per year. Jean Ristaino will discuss the latest research on P. infestans, the pathogen that caused the Irish famine and other plant diseases and their impact on global food security...
Carlos Iglesias – The future of protein production and its implications | GES Colloquium
Innovations in food processing, together with synthetic biology, genomics and data analytics is posed to disrupt the food protein market. The ripples could reach most areas related to food and agri-business globally....
CANCELLED | GES Colloquium
With the new public health policies put in place this week and the extension of Spring Break due to the coronavirus COVID-19, colloquium is cancelled on March 17. Moving forward, we will continue with colloquium as an online course, either via Mediasite or Zoom. We will send out more information as it become available....
Jose Alonso – Implementing recombineering to study gene function in plants | GES Colloquium
Dr. Alonso to discuss how high-efficiency homologous recombination in bacteria facilitates the study of gene function in plants...
Darrell Stover – Science Poetry: Case of the Two Rita’s | GES Colloquium
What is science poetry and how is it that we can have two women named Rita successful in two seemingly separate fields, literature and microbiology, providing inspiration for science communication? The poem, "The Two Rita's," examines the time parallels of the contributions of Rita Dove and Rita Colwell....Continue reading "Darrell Stover – Science Poetry: Case of the Two Rita’s | GES Colloquium"
Elizabeth Bennett – Synthetic biology and biodiversity conservation | GES Colloquium
Elizabeth Bennett, of Wildlife Conservation Society, on the possible applications of synthetic biology to biodiversity conservation, and their pros and cons...
Steve Evans – Reflections on 30 Years Traversing the Ag Biotech Landscape | GES Colloquium
Recent technology advances have re-ignited interests in broadly deploying engineered organisms in open environmental releases. Have learnings from the past been incorporated into current development and discourse, or are we setting up simply to re-plow the same ground?...
Phil Howard – Consolidation in the Global Seed Industry: Drivers and Impacts | GES Colloquium
The seed industry has changed dramatically in recent decades, with >60% of global proprietary seed sales controlled by just four corporations—now facing increasing public opposition and the emergence of alternative sources. ...
Career Panel in Risk Science | GES Colloquium
Are you interested in pursuing a career in risk science? If so, please join us to hear from 5 panelists who represent a range of careers in various aspects of risk, including: assessment, communication, governance, and management. ...Continue reading "Career Panel in Risk Science | GES Colloquium"
Kevin Gross – Burning money? The inherent inefficiency of grant proposal competitions in allocating research funding, and possible alternatives | GES Colloquium
The effort researchers waste in writing proposals may approach the total scientific value of the research that the funding supports. Could lost efficiencies be restored either by partial lotteries, or by funding researchers based on past scientific success?...
Sir Charles Godfray – Open Discussion | GES Colloquium
Discussion with students reflecting on Professor Godfray's 1/13 keynote address. No livestreaming. ...Continue reading "Sir Charles Godfray – Open Discussion | GES Colloquium"
Beyond Burger vs. Impossible Burger Taste-Off | GES Colloquium
For lunch, we will be holding a tasting of two widely publicized 'plant-based meat' products, the Beyond Burger (courtesy of Hardee's) and the Impossible Burger (courtesy of Burger King). How is this related to Genetic Engineering & Society? Come to the Colloquium to find out....Continue reading "Beyond Burger vs. Impossible Burger Taste-Off | GES Colloquium"