Previously he held strategic roles in regulatory affairs across all stages of global development of medicinal products from early to confirmatory clinical development, registration, and post-marketing in the U.S., EU, and other major regions. Gene Editing and Agriculture Gene editing could control crop pests, improve animal welfare, enhance nutrition, increase yields and more. Julie holds a master’s degree in environmental studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder and bachelor’s degrees in geosciences and English from Williams College. He has published two popular scientific books.
He then worked as a scientist at several research stations in the fields of fruit cultivation and horticulture. Will gene editing technologies help or hurt the environment? Lightning Presentation You will receive an automated e-mail confirmation when your registration is completed and an official confirmation e-mail following receipt of the payment. With the recent buzz about CRISPR clinical trials, we thought it was time for a comprehensive status update!
His 37-year-old son, David, has Down syndrome.
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Lightning Presentation Gene editing offers the potential to treat and prevent life-threatening diseases and afflictions.
He also serves as vice chair of Jiangsu Association of Medical Ethics, chair of Jiangsu Youth Association of Medical Humanities, adjunct associate professor of the Michigan State University Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, and editorial consultant of International Journal of Chinese & Comparative Philosophy of Medicine. However, ethical questions, biosecurity concerns, and other uncertainties remain regarding gene editing and the environment. CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals Announce Priority Medicines (PRIME) Designation Granted by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to CTX001™ for the Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease. Panel Discussion Julie has designed and facilitated stakeholder dialogues, public engagement processes, strategic planning processes, and summits on international, national, regional, state, and local scales. Tel.
Food Hub provides services that help food professionals, companies, governments, and NGOs to better understand the dynamics of the changing food system and provides clients with tools to create a bigger impact on the transition of the food system. More hopefully, clinical trials testing CRISPR/Cas9’s ability to treat cancer, sickle cell disease, beta-thalassemia and inherited blindness began in 2019 (SN: 8/14/19).
Crispr “solves problems in every field of biology,” said Angela Zhou, an information scientist at CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society. She is one of the initiators of the multidisciplinary EU-CHIC project to establish root chicory as a multipurpose crop with consumer benefits via genome editing. Niels Louwaars is director of Plantum, the association of companies in the Netherlands dealing in plant reproductive materials. Lightning Presentation She is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and academies in four other countries as well as a visiting distinguished scholar at the Academy of Sciences of South Africa.
He was also sworn in as member of the Plant Breeder’s Rights chamber of the district court in The Hague.
Joris Lohman is founder and director of Food Hub, a social enterprise that aims to accelerate the transition to a good, clean, and circular food system.
His latest book is “The Book of Humans,” on nature’s most paradoxical animal, and before that his best-seller “A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived” retold human history using genetics.
CRISPR 2019 will be held in Canada for the very first time, from June 17-20, 2019. Removing the Dopaminergic Inhibition to Study the Progression of Sexual Maturation in Zebrafish. #DNAdialoog: a first glimpse into the national dialogue on germline modification in the Netherlands. With over 10,000 international experts in six global Commissions, IUCN is the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it. Vytenis was a Member of Parliament for six mandates.
We’re also looking forward to convening in-person conversations in the future.
As a “DNA teacher” he gave many public lectures and participated in talk shows, science festivals, children’s TV shows, and YouTube clips.
Prior to taking on this role in July 2018, she served as a senior policy advisor in FDA’s Office of Policy in the Office of the Commissioner. Marianne loves hiking, reading, and playing folk-violin.
He works closely with scientists and policy makers to explore people’s relationships between knowledge and democracies, and he’s particularly interested in understanding how technologies can be ‘directed’ to the benefit of societies. From 1985 onward, he worked at the Wageningen University Department of Animal Breeding, becoming personal chair in 1998 and full professor in 2002. In 1990 he was elected to the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania, which preceded Seimas (Lithuanian Parliament), and he was one of the co-authors of the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania adopted in 1992 as well as a signatory of the independence act of Lithuania. He then directed the new reproduction and genetics department of Marine Harvest Chile for 10 years. Her doctoral work focused on mechanisms of human transcription and the influence of chromatin on CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing. She holds a diploma in fisheries management and technology, and she worked with the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) as sub-county NAADS coordinator before she joined the business world. Participant-led roundtable conversations on gene editing topics across a variety of applications and issues. For press inquiries concerning CRISPRcon, media access, and other questions, please contact: CRISPRcon is a program of Keystone Policy Center.
The Organizing CommitteeSylvain Moineau, Université LavalKaren Maxwell, University of TorontoAlan Davidson, University of Toronto, The Local Organizing CommitteeSylvain Moineau, Université LavalDenise Tremblay, Université LavalPierre Bolduc, ConfériumCora Roy, Conférium, Abstract submission deadline Examples of this include: five food forests built in North Holland with farmers; a roof garden at the Pennemes care institution producing healthy food in the city; the Living Lab for Nature Inclusive Agriculture set up with 25 farmers; the Honest about Flying campaign; the Biodiversity Delta Plan; and a diaper recycling factory in Amsterdam. Erika has been working in the field of connecting science, society, and policy for over a decade.
Under his leadership, the animal breeding and genomics centre at Wageningen University and Research (WUR) has become one of the top groups at the university and in its domain internationally.
In 2019, Pauline started her Ph.D. during which she will study final oocyte maturation, ovulation, fertilization, and early development of European eel in order to improve the current protocols and produce robust eel larvae.
The need for new treatments is significant, as the ACS estimates there will be 10,920 deaths from AML in 2019. CRISPR 2019 will continue the tradition of this unique scientific gathering, and will cover all aspects of CRISPR biology ranging from adaptation to interference, anti-CRISPR mechanisms, microbial tracking, and genome editing. CRISPR Cures: Gene Editing in Personal and Public Health Gene editing offers the potential to treat and prevent life-threatening diseases and afflictions. He has been a longtime advocate for the full inclusion of people with Down syndrome, in particular, and all people with disabilities, in general, at every level in society. CRISPRcon creates a unique forum in which a broad selection of diverse voices come together to discuss the future of CRISPR and related gene editing technologies across a variety of applications in agriculture, health, conservation and more. Gene editing to reduce gluten immunogenicity in wheat. Steffi has a strong track record in the establishment, development, and representation of technology-based companies; she was the founder and general director of the Nanotechnology Industry Association (NIA) group, co-founder and member of the board of directors of the Chicago Micro- & Nanotechnology Community (CMNC), director of the master’s program in micro- and nanotechnology at the University of Cambridge, and lecturer in inorganic chemistry and solid state chemistry at the University of Oxford.
Tom is based at ETC Group, (Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration) and is honorary associate professor at the University of Exeter’s Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health.
He is now working on his second film, which will be on using gene drive mosquitoes to combat malaria. Lightning Presentation When the Greenports were established in the Netherlands, Ernst participated in several advisory councils where he contributed to the shaping of regional innovation. March 15, 2019, Presenting author registration deadline In 2019 he was also appointed head of the genetics department of AquaGen Chile. Katja obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, on the topic of safety assessment and traceability of GM plants. Starting in 1969 he was active in the anti-Soviet movement, and he was one of the founders of the Lithuanian social-democrat party. How Do Dutch Plant Breeders Feel about the 2018 Ruling by the EU Court of Justice? Bank charges are the responsibility of the participant and should be paid at source in addition to the registration fees.
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