Hopp over seksjon - Til hovedinnhold - Topp
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26.06.2008
Monday July 28th
09.15-09.45
Introduction to the course: A brief history and core ideas
Presenter: Terje Traavik
09.45-10.45
Integrated safety assessment of GMOs (incl. socio-economic issues)
Presenter: Alexander Haslberger
11.15–12.00
The increased need for research/science - in order to serve appropriate environmental management
Presenter: Peter Johan Schei
12.45-18.15
Genomics and molecular biology I
-Functional genomics
-The central dogma
-The genome and the genes
-Structure of nucleic acids and nucleotides
Presenter: Eric Stanbridge
Wednesday July 30th
10.00-11.00
Potential health impacts of transgenic organisms
Presenter: Arpad Pusztai
Thursday July 31st
09.00-09.45
Environmental issues of GMOs
Presenter: Angelika Hilbeck
09.45-10.30
Multiple stress factors to biodiversity and global ecosystems
Presenter: Thomas Bøhn
11.00-11.45
Gene flow: lessons from Invasion Biology?
Presenter: Thomas Bøhn
11.45-12.30
Environmental risk assessment
Presenter: Angelika Hilbeck
13.15-14.15
Food/feed quality and environmental effects of GMOs
Presenter: Thomas Bøhn
Friday August 1st
09.00-10.00
Does size matter?
- Ecological impacts of large scale GM plant cultivation
Presenter: Broder Breckling
10.00-10.45
Socio-economic impacts of GMOs
Presenter: Lim Li Lin
11.15-12.00
Norwegian Gene Technology Act: Short history, sustainable development and socio-ethical considerations
Presenter: Jan Husby
12.00-13.15
DNA traceability in relation to holistic safety regulation
- Principles and pitfalls of GMO detection
- Segregation, identity preservation and traceability
Presenter: John Fagan
14.00-15.30
Shifting cultures of scientific research; GMOs as the case
Presenter: Brian Wynne
15.30-16.15
Scientists’ responsibility of communicating uncertainties
Presenter: Frøydis Gillund
16.45-17.30
The Precautionary Principle in GMO regulations; impacts and challenges
- The role of science and the need for precautionary motivated research
- Communication of early warnings
Presenter: Anne Myhr
17.30-1800
Panel discussion with the floor on broad risk assessment
Panel: Wynne, Haslberger, Husby, Lin, Myhr
Sunday August 3rd
12.45-14.45
Models of science and policy
- Risk, uncertainty and complexity
- Lack of certainty or uncertainty
- Input of facts or input of values?
- When experts disagree
- Extended peer review
Presenter: Silvio Funtowicz
14.45-15.45
Public participation
- Why public participation?
Presenter: Bruna De Marchi
Monday August 4th
13.00-14.30
GE vaccines: Benefits and risks. With practical examples of vaccines in the pipe-line
Presenter: Terje Traavik
Tuesday August 5th
09.00-10.00
Epigenetics
Presenter: Jack Heinemann
10.00-12.00
What is a GMO?
- Scientific and regulatory definitions
Presenters: Jack Heinemann and Jan Husby
12.00-13.00
Risk assessment: Regulatory perspectives
- Legal basis
- Methods and examples
- Challenges and the way forward
Presenter: Andreas Heissenberger
13.45-14.30
Post-release monitoring and reporting
- Accidental/unintentional releases and emergency responses
- Putting biosafety issues into regulatory requirements
Presenter: Susan Bardocz
14.30-15.00
Sampling: Why does it matter?
- Challenges for the implementation of regulations
Presenter: Andreas Heissenberger
15.00-16.15
Key biosafety regulatory issues
- The EU biosafety regulation as an example
- Implementing biosafety systems
Presenter: Andreas Heissenberger
16.45-18.15
Liability and redress
- Addressing adverse ecological, health and socio-economic impacts in a regulatory system
- Contamination and co-existence
- How to ensure that a regulatory system can provide for an effective liability regime
- Basic principles of liability when applying the precautionary principle (locus standi; strict liability; burden of proof; causation; damage/harm; remedies)
Presenter: Lim Li Lin
Wednesday August 6th
09.00-09.45
The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
- Key principles
- National implementation
Presenter: Lim Li Lin
09.45-10.45
The WTO agreements: Understanding what the agreements/standards say, the obligations and opportunities for biosafety.
- WTO: SPS, TBT, GATT agreements
Presenter: Lim Li Lin / Lim Li Ching
11.15-12.00
International standard setting for biosafety
- Codex Alimentarius Commission
- International Plant Protection Convention
- World Organization for Animal Health
Presenter: Lim Li Ching
12.00-12.45
The WTO case ‘European Communities - Measures Affecting the Approval and Marketing of Biotech Products’
- Implications for developing countries
Presenter: Lim Li Ching
Thursday August 7th
15.30-17.15
Country reports - presentations and discussions
Some participants will be selected to present their country reports and their reflections from what they have learnt during the course, after which there will be an open discussion.
Coordinators: Lim Li Lin, Lim Li Ching
17.15-18.00
GE, bioweapons and biodefence
Presenter: Ørjan Olsvik
Friday August 8th
09.00-10.15
Future applications and prospects of genetic engineering
Discussion: Challenges in handling the future of genetic engineering
- Chloroplast transgenesis
- Mulitransgenic crops, “transgene stacking”
- Nanobiotechnology
- Synthetic biology
- Crossovers between transgenesis, nanotech and synthetic biology
- Alternatives to GE
Presenters: David Quist
10.45-12.30
Global warming/deforestation/bio fuels & GMOs
Presenters: Angelika Hilbeck, Ignacio Chapela (+ 2-3 participants)
13.30-14.15
The commercialization of science
Presenter: Ignacio Chapela