Financial Support for the International Conference "GMOs in 2030: Reaping the Promise While Leaping the Pitfalls?", October 14-18, 2003

对“2030 年转基因生物：跨越陷阱的同时收获希望？”国际会议的财政支持，2003 年 10 月 14-18 日

• 批准号: 0240254
• 负责人: Norman Ellstrand
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: University of California-Riverside
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-07-01 至 2004-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0240254&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Financial; Support; International; Conference; GMOs

PROJECT ABSTRACTSES 0240254"GMOs in 2030:Reaping the Promise While Leaping the Pitfalls?"Norman Ellstrand, University of California, Riverside"GMOs in 2030: Reaping the Promise While Leaping the Pitfalls" will be convened by the Biotechnology Impacts Center at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) October 14-18, 2003. The organizers are Norman C. Ellstrand, Professor of Genetics and Director of the Biotechnology Impacts Center, and Richard Sutch, Distinguished Professor of Economics. Nearly everyone who has looked at the issue, from biologists and agronomists to economists and ethicists to ordinary thoughtful people, agree that there is tremendous potential in the new discoveries occurring in biotechnology. At the same time, there is uncertainty over the environmental, social, ethical, legal, economic, and cultural consequences of the new technologies emerging now and those yet to come. The objective of "GMOs in 2030: Reaping the Promise While Leaping the Pitfalls?" is to take a visionary and mindful approach to the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) for the benefit of humankind and the environment by identifying principles and protocols that will serve as a framework for a civilized, respectful and informed dialog on the myriad issues facing society in the application of biotechnology. The conference will be distinctive from others exploring issues associated with biotechnology in that it will integrate leading scholars from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, as opposed to most conferences on the topic, which typically involve life scientists exclusively with one or a few token humanists or social scientists, or vice versa. Conference participants will examine such over-arching topics as the responsibility of humankind in stewardship of the biosphere vs. the ability to manipulate life at the gene level and public participation in the assessment of biotechnology applications. Case studies examining the genetic modification of rice to provide enhanced nutrition and of mosquitoes to provide protection against certain insect-vectored diseases will endeavor to illustrate the complexity and interrelatedness of the issues raised by the GMO revolution. The conference organizers intend to present these and other compelling questions in a format that will be attractive to world-class thinkers both from within and outside of the United States. To insure that conference outcomes reach policy makers, biotech industry representatives, non-governmental organizations and other interested scholars, a book on possible policy approaches to the issues, with chapters authored by the major participants, will be published, as will policy briefs on specific issues. The proposed conference will advance the teaching and training of young, promising researchers and scholars; postdoctoral scholars and graduate students, including those from underrepresented groups, will be particularly encouraged to participate. This proposal seeks partial financial support of the conference from the National Science Foundation.

项目摘要0240254“2030年的转基因生物：在跨越陷阱的同时收获承诺？“Norman Ellstrand，University of California，滨江“GMOs in 2030：Reaping the Promise While Leaping the Pitfalls”将于2003年10月14日至18日由加州大学滨江分校（UCR）生物技术影响中心召集。组织者是诺曼·C。遗传学教授兼生物技术影响中心主任Ellstrand和经济学杰出教授Richard Sutch。几乎所有关注这个问题的人，从生物学家和农学家到经济学家和伦理学家，再到普通的有思想的人，都同意生物技术领域的新发现具有巨大的潜力。与此同时，现在出现的新技术和即将出现的新技术对环境、社会、伦理、法律的、经济和文化的影响也存在不确定性。2030年的转基因生物：跨越陷阱，收获承诺？“对转基因生物的使用采取一种有远见和有意识的方法，以造福人类和环境，确定原则和议定书，作为一个框架，就社会在应用生物技术方面面临的无数问题进行文明、尊重和知情的对话。该会议将与其他探索与生物技术相关问题的会议不同，因为它将整合来自各种学科视角的领先学者，而不是大多数关于该主题的会议，这些会议通常只涉及生命科学家与一个或几个象征性的人文主义者或社会科学家，反之亦然。与会者将审查诸如人类在管理生物圈方面的责任与在基因一级操纵生命的能力以及公众参与评估生物技术应用等过于复杂的议题。研究转基因水稻以提供更好的营养和蚊子以提供对某些昆虫传播疾病的保护的案例研究将奋进说明转基因革命所提出的问题的复杂性和相互关联性。会议组织者打算提出这些和其他引人注目的问题，其形式将吸引来自美国内外的世界级思想家。为确保决策者、生物技术工业代表、非政府组织和其他感兴趣的学者了解会议成果，将出版一本关于这些问题的可能政策办法的书，其中有主要与会者撰写的章节，还将出版关于具体问题的政策简报。拟议的会议将促进年轻、有前途的研究人员和学者的教学和培训;将特别鼓励博士后学者和研究生，包括代表性不足的群体的博士后学者和研究生参加。该提案寻求国家科学基金会对会议的部分财政支持。