This workshop looks potentially interesting.<\/p>\n
Public Dialogue Wednesday 9\u00a0March<\/strong><\/p>\n
Lindisfarne Centre,\u00a0St Aidan\u2019s College, Durham University<\/p>\n
5pm Wednesday March 9th<\/p>\n
Programme<\/strong><\/p>\n
5.15 pm Introduction to the Meeting \u2013 Dr Patrick Steel (Durham University)<\/p>\n
5.20 \u2013 6.45 pm A series of short talks from experts in the field providing a personalised view of synthetic biology and its future impact:<\/p>\n
Dr Ray Elliott, <\/strong>Syngenta Ltd<\/em>, \u201cWhat Synthetic biology can do for agriculture\u201d
\nProf Mark Harvey, <\/strong>Centre for Research in Economic Sociology and Innovation, University of Essex, \u201c<\/em>Energy, food, materials and climate change: the 21st century challenge to biological science and technology\u201d
\nProf John Ward, <\/strong>Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, \u201c<\/em>What synthetic biology can offer for bioengineering\u201d
\nProf Robert Song, <\/strong>Department of Theology Durham University, \u201c<\/em>Synthetic Biology: Some ethical issues\u201d<\/p>\n6.45-7.00 Refreshments<\/p>\n
7.00-8.30 pm Open Discussion Between Panels and Audience Chaired by:<\/p>\n
Prof Robert Edwards<\/strong>, Chief Scientific Officer for the Food Environment Research Agency<\/em>
\nProf Phil Macnaghten, <\/strong>Institute of Hazard Risk and Resilience, Durham University<\/em><\/p>\n8.30 Buffet \u2013 free for all registered participants<\/p>\n
SPPI-NET <\/a>is a BBSRC funded network which has the objective of promoting interdisciplinary collaborative ventures, involving both academics and industrialists, to explore the potential for producing synthetic plant products for industrial applications.\u00a0 The IAS (Institute of Advanced Study<\/a>) is Durham University\u2019s ideas-based Institute which brings together some of the world\u2019s finest researchers from\u00a0every discipline<\/em> to examine themes of major intellectual, scientific, political and practical significance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
pace<\/em> my earlier post about theological ethics,\u00a0I’m assured by people whose opinion is sound that Song is a decent ethicist; I’ll suspend my grumbles in his case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This workshop looks potentially interesting. Public Dialogue Wednesday 9\u00a0March Lindisfarne Centre,\u00a0St Aidan\u2019s College, Durham University 5pm Wednesday March 9th Programme 5.15 pm Introduction to the Meeting \u2013 Dr Patrick Steel (Durham University) 5.20 \u2013 6.45 pm A series of short talks from experts in the field providing a personalised view of synthetic biology and its […]<\/p>\n