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，一个环境生物技术特别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。现在提议举办一次讲习班，将目前活跃在环境生物技术领域的前与会者聚集在一起，以实现三个目标：(1)评估过去培训活动的影响；(2)促进进一步的合作；(3)突出工作组和工作队在这一领域的活动。拟议的研讨会定于2005年9月26日在工作队发源地比利时布鲁塞尔举行。研讨会的学术目的将是在美国和欧盟与会者之间交流科学信息和想法，以促进新的生物技术进步，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满会议当天的大部分时间。下午晚些时候的海报会议将提供一个非正式的科学讨论机会。信息交流将带来明显的智力利益，包括查明限制环境生物技术进展的制约因素。更广泛的影响包括在环境生物技术研究方面加强合作，以及更多地接触文化差异所带来的好处。该研讨会寻求通过确定可接受的生物技术控制措施来尽量减少甚至扭转对环境的破坏。

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.