While the sections of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act governing food ingredient regulation have remained largely unchanged since the passage of the Food Additives Amendment of 1958, the FDA has shown that it is able to effectively regulate ingredients manufactured using new technologies under these existing broad statutory authorities to ensure the safety of substances added to food.

Pink Chicken Project suggests changing the color of the entire species Gallus gallus domesticus - using the recently invented CRISPR Gene Drive technique - coloring the geological trace of humankind, pink!

Seeds are tools to ask how promising technology including GMOs and organic certification is used, learned, and adapted by farmers with consequences for rural wellbeing and sustainable agriculture.

How our conceptualization of cognitive decision making biases and heuristics influences how we engage with underserved communities around issues of justice.

Dr. Barnhill-Dilling with a discussion on the critical importance of recognition of identity and worldview as foundational to broader environmental justice in the governance of environmental biotechnologies.

Dr. Stepanova will talk about her group's efforts to harness the power of synthetic biology and develop new molecular tools to visualize the activity of plant hormones and gain tighter control over spatiotemporal patterns of gene expression.

Last GES Colloquium of 2020! Sam Thomas joins us from Bayer Crop Science to discuss production and delivery challenges faced by the global vegetable seed industry in an increasingly complex regulatory environment