Sara Fitzsimmons – GE American Chestnut: Counting Chestnuts Before They Ripen | Hybrid | GES Colloquium
Hybrid | Explore the scientific, ethical, and environmental issues which have impacted research, release, and deregulation of a transgenic American chestnut...
Erika Szymanski – Crossing Kingdoms: An Experiment in (Ir)responsible Research? | Zoom Only | GES Colloquium
Zoom Only | An artist-led interdisciplinary experiment with risky science led to boundary-challenging conclusions about what responsibility looks like in responsible research....
Nathan Crook – Engineering Vibrio natriegens for remediation of PET plastics | Hybrid | GES Colloquium
Hybrid | This talk covers our recent efforts to engineer the saltwater microbe Vibrio natriegens to break down PET plastics and eat the breakdown products....
Nourou Barry – Policy preferences and gene drive for agricultural pests | Zoom Only | GES Colloquium
Zoom only | This qualitative study investigates the uncertainties and diverse perspectives of experts regarding the potential use of gene drive technology for agricultural pest control in the U.S., focusing on policy preferences and governance considerations to highlight the need for informed decision-making and strategic planning....
Sarah Hartley – FILM: Gene Drive Mosquitoes for Malaria Control: The Governance Challenges | Zoom Only | GES Colloquium
Zoom Only | Gene Drive Mosquitoes for Malaria Control is a short documentary film beautifully shot in Uganda, exploring Ugandan stakeholders’ hopes for gene drive mosquitoes – a radical new tool potentially offering a way to eliminate or change the mosquitoes that cause malaria....
Jason Delborne – Science Policy, Soft Power, and Responsible Development | Hybrid | GES Colloquium
Hybrid | Jason Delborne spent the 2023-24 academic year as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow in Washington, DC, working at the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office...
GES Fellows – Getting into the weeds with NC farmers | Zoom Only | GES Colloquium
Zoom Only | The incoming class of GES Graduate Minor Fellows share insights from their time spent with NC farmers learning about agbiotech in the field....Continue reading "GES Fellows – Getting into the weeds with NC farmers | Zoom Only | GES Colloquium"
Welcome back lunch! | In-Person | GES Colloquium
In-person only | Join us for lunch in the 1911 Building, room 129, as we catch up on what everyone has been up to over the summer with our traditional lunch from Neomonde! We'll introduce the new cohort of GES Minor Fellows, go over what to expect this semester, and give folks a chance to reconnect with each other. All GES-affiliated faculty, students, and staff are invited and encouraged to join us....Continue reading "Welcome back lunch! | In-Person | GES Colloquium"
Seminar speaker | GES Colloquium
The 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. GES Colloquium is jointly taught by Drs. Dawn Rodriguez-Ward and Katie Barnhill, who you may contact with any class-specific questions, and meets weekly on Tuesdays from 12-1 pm via Zoom, with in-person guests every other week in the 1911 Building, room 129. Please subscribe to the GES newsletter and LinkedIn for updates....
GGA Seminar with Dr. Latifa Jackson – Decolonizing Human Genetic Research Workshop Series
Leveraging computational scale data, studies show that socioeconomic, psychological, and biological factors contribute to immune weathering in young adults, and recent research suggests that violence and other adverse experiences may be affecting biological stress responses in African Americans. Hosted in collaboration with BAA (Being an Ally in Academics). ...
Fireside Chat with Dr. Latifa Jackson – Decolonizing Human Genetic Research Workshop Series
As part of a two-day engagement, Jackson will join us for a “fireside chat” and Q&A session to answer your questions about her research on the effect of sexual and racial discrimination on human health, her work with the 1,000 African-American Genomes Project, her career path, and more. Hosted in collaboration with BAA (Being an Ally in Academics). ...
Has the UN Biodiversity Convention been a force for ‘good’ or ‘evil’ in how biotech crops are regulated globally? | GES Colloquium
AgBioFEWS Fellows Asa Budnick, Nick Loschin, Joseph Opoku Gakpo and Modesta Abugu will share their observations on and interrogate practices at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, Canada that eventually lead to global decisions on the governance of biotech crops....
The Challenges, Successes, and Sustainability of NRT FEWS programs | GES Colloquium
Panel: Drs. Karletta Chief (University of Arizona), Yael Perez (University of California-Berkeley), and Amy Sapkota (University of Maryland). Joining us from three different NSF research traineeships on food, energy, and water systems (FEWS), our panelists will share each programs' challenges, opportunities, and sustainability....
Jonathan Allen and Rebecca Brown – Food sciences, technology, and globally sustainable food systems | GES Colloquium [In-Person]
Where the food science and nutrition communities have come and may be going in defining sustainable food systems with examples from research in the NC State Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Department. ...