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Plant Sciences Initiative: Accelerating Discovery and Innovation

1911 Building, Room 129 (North Campus) 10 Current Dr., Raleigh, NC, United States

Steve Briggs joined NC State’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in August 2017 as the NC Plant Sciences Initiative (NC PSI) Launch Director. As Launch Director, Briggs has oversight of the 184,000 square foot PSI Building, is assembling the inaugural research project teams, and developing partnerships that will establish North Carolina as a world leader in plant sciences. Prior to joining NC State, he was the Senior Vice President of Agronomy and Corporate Marketing for South Dakota Wheat Growers (SDWG), the largest farmer owned cooperative in the United States.

Darby Orcutt – Scholarly Identity for an Interdisciplinary and Engaged Career

1911 Building, Room 129 (North Campus) 10 Current Dr., Raleigh, NC, United States

GES Colloquium, 11/13/18 - Darby Orcutt | Managing one’s scholarly identity has never been perfectly straightforward and easy to do, but it can be especially challenging for researchers and scholars who cross disciplinary boundaries and whose research outputs may include work outside the traditional peer-reviewed article. Indeed, we are preaching to the choir when speaking to those active in the Genetic Engineering & Society Center about the vital importance of engaging with diverse academic, professional, and public audiences and producing research outputs that can have tremendous impact on policy and public perception.

Science in the Movies: Genetic Engineering and Gene Editing

James B. Hunt Library, Auditorium 1070 Partners Way, Raleigh, NC, United States

Science in the Movies returns to the Hunt Library with clips and discussion about films that deal with genetic engineering. Panelists: Dr. Marsha Gordon (Professor, Film Studies, NC State), Dr. Rodolphe Barrangou (Associate Professor, CRISPR Lab Lead, NC State), Thomas Williams, J.D. (Law & Biosciences Fellow in Science and Society, Duke University). In partnership with SCONC (Science Communicators of North Carolina).

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Katie Barnhill-Dilling & Dalton George – Responsible Research & Innovation in Action: Tales from the Front Lines

1911 Building, Room 129 (North Campus) 10 Current Dr., Raleigh, NC, United States

11/20 Colloquium - Dr. Katie Barnhill-Dilling and Dalton George | Responsible research and innovation (RRI) is an increasingly applied normative framework for the governance of emerging technologies. However, meaningful implementation of RRI principles can be challenging, particularly with respect to upstream stakeholder and community engagement. The Safe Genes NCSU project, "Restoring Ecosystems and Biodiversity through Development of Safe and Effective Gene Drive Technologies," has been designed with RRI in mind.

Frankenstein at 200: Science and the novel

1911 Building, Room 129 (North Campus) 10 Current Dr., Raleigh, NC, United States

12/4/2018 Final Colloquium of Fall 2018! Feder and Booker will discuss the history of the novella, its popular uses, and ask the group to discuss the question: Why is this story so well known and so popular among scientists? What about the monster and the doctor makes Frankenstein such a powerful and accessible metaphor when scientists and the public talk about genetic modification?

GES Sisters Lunch

Gonza Tacos 2100 Hillsborough St., Raleigh, NC, United States

GES Sisters Lunch The GES Sisters holiday lunch will be Tuesday, Dec. 11, from 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. at Gonza Tacos y Tequila, in the Aloft building, 2100 Hillsborough Street. We look forward to seeing...

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Spring Colloquium Intro (lunch from Neomonde)

1911 Building, Room 129 (North Campus) 10 Current Dr., Raleigh, NC, United States

Our Spring series will kick off with a catered lunch from Neomonde on Tuesday, January 08. Come prepared to give a short update about your recent GES activities and upcoming plans.

Webinar: NASEM Forest Health and Biotechnology Report Release

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will hold a public release webinar for the new consensus report Forest Health and Biotechnology: Possibilities and Considerations on Tuesday, January 8 at 2:00 pm ET. Register below to watch the report release webinar. The recording will be posted 1 week afterwards.

GES Colloquium | Qian Xu – User Engagement in Public Discourse on GMOs

1911 Building, Room 129 (North Campus) 10 Current Dr., Raleigh, NC, United States

GES Colloquium, 1/15/18 - Qian Xu | This study adopted a quantitative content analysis to examine how source attributes of opinion leaders and their message framing influenced user engagement in the public discourse of genetically modified organisms on Chinese social media.

GES Colloquium | Ramon Leon – Weeds and Herbicide Resistant Crops: When Optimism Backfires

1911 Building, Room 129 (North Campus) 10 Current Dr., Raleigh, NC, United States

GES Colloquium, 1/22/19 - Ramon Leon | The rapid evolution of herbicide resistant weeds and the lack of new herbicides has prompted a reevaluation of how HR crops should be considered just a component within a more complex integrated management system and not as the sole tool for ensuring weed control. The excessive optimism that the agricultural and scientific community exhibited during the first years of use of glyphosate resistant crops reduced our ability to identify the limitations of the technology and the negative consequences of not taking corrective actions on time.This is a cautionary tale that should inform the introduction and use of new HR traits.

Todd Kuiken Seminar: Governance of Emerging Biotechnologies in a World Without Borders

Energy Biosciences Building, UC Berkeley 2151 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Innovative Genomics Institute, UC Berkeley, Jan 22, 2019 | Todd Kuiken Seminar: Governance of Emerging Biotechnologies in a World Without Borders. As synthetic biology, genome editing, gene drives, CRISPR, and the biotechnologies of tomorrow continue to emerge, international treaties are struggling to keep pace. While recognizing that biotechnologies are rapidly developing, with potential benefits and potential adverse impacts; how will treaties develop governance systems to both enable benefits while preventing or minimizing adverse effects? How do international treaties that address access and benefits sharing agreements based on “physical genetic material” incorporate (or not) digital sequence information? If engineered gene drives do not recognize a country’s or indigenous community’s sovereign lands; how does the international community address a situation where one country decides to move forward while another, or indigenous community, says no? And how does the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it, incorporate (or not), the tools of biotechnology? These are just some of the complicated questions international treaties have been debating over the last 10 years. Join us for a discussion as I examine these and other issues through my personal experiences inside these debates.