Biotechnology for the Environment: A Joint United States - European Union Celebration of a Decade of Environmental Biotechnology Exchange Activities for Early Career Scientists

在过去的十年里，一个环境生物技术工作组培训和促进了以早期职业科学家为中心的跨大西洋合作。现在提议举办一个讲习班，汇集目前在环境生物技术领域活跃的前参与者，以实现三个目标：(1)评估过去培训活动的影响；(2)促进进一步合作；(3)突出工作组和工作组在该领域的活动。提议的研讨会定于2005年9月26日在特别工作组的起源地比利时布鲁塞尔举行。研讨会的智力目的将是在美国和欧盟参与者之间交流科学信息和思想，以刺激新的生物技术进步，并进一步鼓励发展富有成效的合作。同样重要的是，讲习班是评估培训活动影响的一种方式。早期职业科学家的演讲将占据会议的大部分时间。下午晚些时候的海报会议将为科学讨论提供非正式的机会。信息交流将具有明显的智力利益，包括确定限制环境生物技术进展的制约因素。更广泛的影响包括增加环境生物技术研究方面的合作，以及增加接触文化差异所带来的好处。讲习班力求通过确定可接受的生物技术控制措施，尽量减少甚至扭转对环境的损害。

Over the past ten years, an Environmental Biotechnology Task Force has trained and facilitated transatlantic collaborations centered on early career scientists. A workshop is now proposed to bring together former participants who are currently active in the field of environmental biotechnology in order to achieve three goals: (1) to assess the impact of the past training activities; (2) to promote further collaborations; and (3) to highlight working group and task force activities in this field. The proposed workshop is scheduled for September 26, 2005 in Brussels, Belgium, where the Task Force originated. The intellectual purpose of the workshop will be to exchange scientific information and ideas between the US and EU participants in order to stimulate novel biotechnological advances and to further encourage the development of productive collaborations. As importantly, the workshop represents a way to assess the impact of the training activities. Presentations by the early career scientists will fill much of the meeting day. A late afternoon poster session will provide an informal opportunity for scientific discussion. The exchange of information will have obvious intellectual benefits including identifying the constraints limiting environmental biotechnology progress. Broader implications include increased cooperation in environmental biotechnology research as well as the benefits associated with increased exposure to cultural differences. The workshop seeks to minimize or even reverse environmental damage by identifying acceptable biotechnological control measures.