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SUMMARY:Isabelle Coche - Turning the corner: What does the IUCN rejection of a moratorium mean for gene drive research? | GES Colloquium (Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Home | Zoom Registration | GES Video Library (current) | Video Archives | Podcast | LinkedIn | Newsletter \nFALL SEMINAR SERIES\nTurning the corner: What does the IUCN rejection of a moratorium mean for gene drive research?\nZoom ONLY | At the 2025 IUCN World Conservation Congress\, a proposal to establish a moratorium on gene drive research failed to pass—nearly a decade after the first calls for such a moratorium emerged. Does this outcome signal a shift in global debates over gene drive technologies? This talk will trace how discussions within the IUCN and other international policy arenas have evolved over the past ten years\, offering reflections on what this moment reveals about the future of gene drive governance and public discourse. \nRelated Links: \n\nIUCN World Conservation Congress\nConservationists clash over the use of synthetic biology\, C&EN News\, 10/16/2025\nDownload seminar graphic\n\nMs. Isabelle Coche\, MA\nChief Policy Officer at Emerging | Profile \nIsabelle Coche leads the Secretariat for the Outreach Network for Gene Drive Research. The Network’s purpose is to raise awareness of the value of responsible gene drive research for the public good and of the need for continuous efforts in its advancement. \nIsabelle has significant experience in policy and advocacy at the international and regional levels\, and a broad knowledge of development issues acquired through previous work in international organizations\, private sector and NGOs. At Emerging\, which provides the Secretariat services to the Network\, Isabelle serves as Chief Policy Officer. She leads on several global policy issues related to technology\, biodiversity and public health\, building on her in-depth knowledge and understanding of UN and multilateral processes. \nPrior to Emerging\, Isabelle worked on issues related to gender and trade for the Organization of American States; as a campaigner for Amnesty International; and as policy manager for CropLife International. She has also worked as an independent consultant with organisations involved in agriculture and climate change\, providing policy and strategy support. \nShe holds a Master’s in Gender Studies from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a BA Honours in Political Science and Economics from McGill University. Isabelle has lived and worked in Europe\, North America\, Africa and Asia. \n\nThe Genetic Engineering and Society (GES) Colloquium is a seminar series that brings in speakers to present and stimulate discussion on a variety of topics related to existing and proposed biotechnologies and their place within broader societal changes. \nGES Colloquium is jointly taught by Drs. Katie Barnhill and Nourou Barry\, and the seminars serve as a great opportunity for our students to build their networks and grow as professionals. To support their efforts\, we encourage you to join our in-person seminars\, which will now take place in Biltmore 2006. \nRemember\, we regularly post colloquium seminars as videos on Panopto and on our GES Lectures podcast\, allowing you to revisit or catch up on these recordings at your convenience. \nPlease subscribe to the GES newsletter and LinkedIn for updates.
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/colloquium-2025-11-04/
LOCATION:https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloq-zoom
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SUMMARY:NC State "Cluster Conversations" - A Conversation with the GES Cluster
DESCRIPTION:NC State “Cluster Conversation” with the Genetic Engineering and Society Cluster\nNC State’s Office of University Interdisciplinary Programs (OUIP) and Office for Faculty Excellence (OFE) partner to present “Cluster Conversations\,” in which members of one of NC State’s Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program clusters join Levent Atici\, Associate Vice Provost for Student-Centered Interdisciplinary Initiatives\, for an informal conversation about exciting work being done within the GES cluster — currently\, and with an eye to the future. \nRSVP here\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe GES cluster will be represented by: \n\nJennifer Kuzma\, Director of the GES Center and Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs\nKhara Grieger\, Deputy Director of the GES Center and Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Applied Ecology\nKatie Barnhill\, Associate Director of Programs & Engagement and Co-Director\, GES Graduate Minor\nNick Loschin\, PhD candidate\, GES Fellow\, and Graduate Research Assistant in Interdisciplinary Risk Sciences\nDownload eBillboard >\n\nThese monthly events are open to all members of the NC State community\, the Centennial Campus community and the general public. \nAll Cluster Conversations are held in Raleigh Founded\, Partners I Building on NC State’s Centennial Campus from 8:45-10 a.m. \nIf you have questions about Cluster Conversations\, please contact Dr. Jory Weintraub\, Director of Science Engagement (weintraub@ncsu.edu).
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/cluster-convo-with-ges-at-raleigh-founded-11-11-2025/
LOCATION:Raleigh Founded\, Partners I\, 1017 Main Campus Dr #1650\, Raleigh\, NC\, 27607\, United States
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SUMMARY:Susana Mateos - Navigating a socio-ecological inquiry - GES Colloquium (Hybrid)
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Home | Zoom Registration | GES Video Library (current) | Video Archives | Podcast | LinkedIn | Newsletter \nFALL SEMINAR SERIES\nNavigating a socio-ecological inquiry\nBiltmore 2006 + Zoom | Scientific inquiry into the socio-ecological challenges of forced displacement\, environmental degradation\, and shifting land use requires an interdisciplinary and multi-scalar approach. This research examines the interplay between local ecological knowledge\, environmental pressures\, human migration\, and the broader global economic and political systems that shape these processes. \nWhat comes to mind when you think of Costa Rica? Volcanos\, toucans\, and turquoise rivers? \nMy journey as an avian ecologist working in Costa Rica brought me to a complex dynamic between the natural beauty of the country and the xenophobia towards people from Nicaragua. Listening and learning from first and second generation Nicaraguan immigrants living in Costa Rica has shaped my doctoral research. My research explores how displaced Nicaraguan migrants and Costa Ricans know their natural surroundings and how they build a relationship with the land through everyday practices. This inquiry has pushed me beyond the boundaries of traditional ecological research requiring an interdisciplinary lens and an openness to multiple ways of knowing. It has also allowed me to articulate the importance of engaging with the philosophy of science to question how we produce knowledge\, whose knowledge counts\, and how scientific practice can evolve to be more inclusive and reflexive. \n\nDownload seminar graphic\n\nSusana Mateos\nGraduate student at North Carolina State University | Profile \nSusana grounds her work in community engagement and collaborative learning.She has worked with the Antioch University New England’s community engagement team since 2020 where they have engaged with over 200 environmental leaders through the North American Association of Environmental Education community. Susana is a PhD student in the Forestry and Environmental Resources department. In addition to her current formal education\, she works on a collaborative project with the California State University Desert Studies Center and Bureau of Land Management\, to engage off-highway vehicle users\, land managers\, and tribes across the Mojave Desert. Trained as an ecologist at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, she has been involved in avian conservation projects in southern California and Costa Rica. Her bird conservation path brought her to learning from the communities that live among the biodiversity she loves. While studying manakins at Parque Nacional Volcán Tenorio\, she began engaging with a rural Costa Rican community\, learning about their connections to the natural environment as first and second generation migrants from Nicaragua. Using political ecology and ethnoecology as theoretical frameworks she seeks to understand the complex socio-ecological dynamics (power relations\, resource distribution and environmental justice) within the community. \n\nThe Genetic Engineering and Society (GES) Colloquium is a seminar series that brings in speakers to present and stimulate discussion on a variety of topics related to existing and proposed biotechnologies and their place within broader societal changes. \nGES Colloquium is jointly taught by Drs. Katie Barnhill and Nourou Barry\, and the seminars serve as a great opportunity for our students to build their networks and grow as professionals. To support their efforts\, we encourage you to join our in-person seminars\, which will now take place in Biltmore 2006. \nRemember\, we regularly post colloquium seminars as videos on Panopto and on our GES Lectures podcast\, allowing you to revisit or catch up on these recordings at your convenience. \nPlease subscribe to the GES newsletter and LinkedIn for updates.
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/colloquium-2025-11-11/
LOCATION:Biltmore 2006\, 2820 Faucette Dr\, Raleigh\, NC\, 27606\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hamidou Maïga - Building Local Capacity for Innovative Mosquito Control | GES Colloquium (Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Home | Zoom Registration | GES Video Library (current) | Video Archives | Podcast | LinkedIn | Newsletter \nFALL SEMINAR SERIES\nBuilding Local Capacity for Innovative Mosquito Control: Lessons from SIT and Nanotechnology Research\nZOOM ONLY | Dr. Hamidou Maïga will share insights on how innovative mosquito control\, including Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) and nanotechnology\, is being used to combat vector-borne diseases. \nInnovative and sustainable mosquito control approaches are urgently needed to address the growing challenge of vector-borne diseases in Africa. This presentation will showcase efforts to build local capacity for the development and implementation of advanced technologies\, focusing on the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) and nanotechnology-based interventions. Drawing from ongoing research worldwide\, we will discuss the optimization of mosquito mass-rearing\, irradiation\, and release systems to enhance the efficiency of SIT programs. In parallel\, we will highlight promising findings from studies on chemically and green-synthesized silver nanoparticles\, which demonstrated strong larvicidal activity against both susceptible and insecticide-resistant strains of Anopheles coluzzii. These results underline the potential of nanotechnology as an eco-friendly and effective complement to traditional control tools. The presentation will also address challenges in developing nanotechnology-based approaches as a potential tool to reduce the burden of mosquito-borne diseases across Africa. \nRelated links: \n\nBlog: Governing Emerging Technologies: A Lesson from Burkina Faso\, Nourou Barry and Katie Barnhill\, 9/5/25\nDownload seminar poster\n\nHamidou Maïga\, PhD\nMedical Entomologist at the Institute de Recherche en Sciences de la Sante\, Direction Regionale de l’Ouest (IRSS-DRO)\, Burkina Faso | LinkedIn | Google Scholar | X \nDr. Hamidou Maïga is a medical entomologist whose research focuses on innovative mosquito control strategies to combat vector-borne diseases. He specializes in the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT)\, contributing to the development and optimization of mosquito mass-rearing\, irradiation\, and release systems to enhance the effectiveness of SIT-based programs. Dr. Maïga has also initiated pioneering work on the application of nanotechnology in mosquito control\, exploring eco-friendly\, plant-based nanoparticle formulations as sustainable alternatives to conventional insecticides. His broader research aims to strengthen local scientific capacity and promote environmentally sound\, genetics- and plant-based approaches to vector management across Africa \n\nThe Genetic Engineering and Society (GES) Colloquium is a seminar series that brings in speakers to present and stimulate discussion on a variety of topics related to existing and proposed biotechnologies and their place within broader societal changes. \nGES Colloquium is jointly taught by Drs. Katie Barnhill and Nourou Barry\, and the seminars serve as a great opportunity for our students to build their networks and grow as professionals. To support their efforts\, we encourage you to join our in-person seminars\, which will now take place in Biltmore 2006. \nRemember\, we regularly post colloquium seminars as videos on Panopto and on our GES Lectures podcast\, allowing you to revisit or catch up on these recordings at your convenience. \nPlease subscribe to the GES newsletter and LinkedIn for updates.
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/colloquium-2025-11-18/
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SUMMARY:GES 508 Presentation: Misinformation\, Disinformation\, and Responsible Innovation | GES Colloquium (Zoom Only)
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Home | Zoom Registration | GES Video Library (current) | Video Archives | Podcast | LinkedIn | Newsletter \nFALL SEMINAR SERIES\nGES 508 Presentation: Misinformation\, Disinformation\, and Responsible Innovation\nZoom Only | Final GES Colloquium of the year! How Responsible Innovation may provide a roadmap for grappling with mis- and disinformation in the context of stakeholder engagement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nNote: Recording of this presentation will be unavailable until the research is published. \n\nAlongside ubiquitous calls for increasing engagement across stakeholder groups\, we also see a rise in mis- and disinformation that shapes stakeholders’ perceptions of emerging technologies. How do we grapple with the tension of being sufficiently inclusive in an information landscape so heavily influenced by mis- and disinformation? Here\, we use contemporary biotechnology use cases — biotechnology policy changes in West Africa\, human germline editing\, and mRNA COVID vaccines — to explore how Responsible Innovation both prompts the question and provides possible solutions. \n\nDownload seminar graphic\n\nPresenters:\nJordan Birkner\, Janet Brock\, Alexia Cash\, Madison Horgan\, Bhavana Morankar\, Sebastian Reyes-Roza\, and Slyvia Tetteh are all students in GES 508: Emerging Technologies & Society. The presenters are a combination of GES minor fellows and other students who work in emerging technology and society research spaces. \n\nThe Genetic Engineering and Society (GES) Colloquium is a seminar series that brings in speakers to present and stimulate discussion on a variety of topics related to existing and proposed biotechnologies and their place within broader societal changes. \nGES Colloquium is jointly taught by Drs. Katie Barnhill and Nourou Barry\, and the seminars serve as a great opportunity for our students to build their networks and grow as professionals. To support their efforts\, we encourage you to join our in-person seminars\, which will now take place in Biltmore 2006. \nRemember\, we regularly post colloquium seminars as videos on Panopto and on our GES Lectures podcast\, allowing you to revisit or catch up on these recordings at your convenience. \nPlease subscribe to the GES newsletter and LinkedIn for updates.
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/colloquium-2025-11-25/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Colloquium,GES Event
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