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GES Colloquium 

Tuesdays 12-1PM, Poe 202
Career Panel in Risk Science

Next Colloquium: Tuesday, 1/28

Career Panel in Risk Science

Are you interested in pursuing a career in risk science? If so, please join us to hear from 5 panelists who represent a range of careers in various aspects of risk. Each of the panelists will give a 5-minute lightning presentation on their backgrounds in risk science and areas of expertise in risk: assessment, communication, governance, and management. This will be followed by a facilitated discussion and Q&A session. 

Lunch to follow.

Moderator

  • Khara Grieger – Senior Research Scholar, GES Center, NC State

Panelists:

  • Jennifer Kuzma – Goodnight-NC GSK Foundation Distinguished Professor, SPIA, and Co-Director, GES Center, NC State
  • David Berube – Professor, Communication, and Director of PCOST, NC State
  • Chris Cummings – Assistant Professor of Strategic Communication, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Amy Wang – Health Scientist, National Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
  • Paul Price – Exposure Scientist, National Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Khara Grieger is a Senior Research Scholar in GES, specializing in risk assessment, risk governance, and decision support for emerging technologies. She is also leading an initiative to grow the field of risk science in the Research Triangle Park (RTP) area through funding provided by the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA). This symposium will be co-sponsored by the RTP chapter of SRA.
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LOOKING AHEAD: 2/4 COLLOQUIUM

Consolidation in the Global Seed Industry: Drivers and Impacts

Phil Howard is an Associate Professor of Community Sustainability at Michigan State University, and a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems. He is the author of Concentration and Power in the Food System: Who Controls What We Eat? His visualizations of food system changes have been featured in numerous outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and The EcologistRead more >

Charles Godfray lecture now available online

Godfray lecture now online
Sir Charles Godfray's lecture on feeding the world without wrecking the environment is now available to stream online: Be sure to subscribe as audio from colloquia will also soon be added!

In the News

AgBioFEWS News

Photo of AgBioFEWS Fellows Daniela Pezzini and Nassib Mugwanya
AgBioFEWS Fellows Daniela Pezzini and Nassib Mugwanya have backgrounds in agriculture, but both found unexpected realities when they visited farms throughout the state.

Fusing Disciplines, Transforming Graduate Education

1/2/2020 - NC State News

The Agricultural Biotechnology in Food, Energy and Water Systems (AgBioFEWS) program is showing graduate students the full spectrum of issues in biotech and genetic engineering, from the lab, to the field, to the public square. And it’s an approach that could inform how we seek solutions to other grand challenges.

AgBioFEWS Application deadline: Feb. 1.

Info at go.ncsu.edu/agbiofews

Featured

 

The Gene Drive Dilemma: We Can Alter Entire Species, but Should We?

1/8/2020 - Jennifer Kahn, The New York Times Magazine

Todd Kuiken, a researcher at the Genetic Engineering and Society Center at North Carolina State University, says that “it was basically a lesson in how not to do things.” But, he pointed out, the “Monsanto Mistake” also alerted researchers to the need for a more transparent and collaborative approach.
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Kuiken paused: “That’s part of why all this is so hard. It’s not just a question of whether or not we should use gene drives. It’s about coming to grips with our failures.”

Gene editing could revolutionize the food industry, but it'll have to fight the PR war GMO foods lost

1/12/2020 - Ira Basen, CBC Radio

Jennifer Kuzma agrees that GMO researchers have sometimes been guilty of "perhaps overstating the promise of the technology and understating potential risk." But she believes those involved in developing gene-editing techniques want to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.

LISTEN: CBC radio documentary - The Splice of Life: Exploring the science behind gene-edited foods and their implications - featuring GES Center Co-Director Jennifer Kuzma

Blog

Lessons Learned for Risk Governance of Synthetic Biology, Nanomaterials, and Other Emerging Technologies in a Post-2020 World

12/13/2019 - Khara Grieger and Todd Kuiken

On December 9th, a symposium was held at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis, entitled “Risk Analysis of Engineered Nanomaterials: Where Have We Been, Lessons Learned, and Transfer of Knowledge to Other Emerging Technologies." Five speakers highlighted their own experiences from the field of nanomaterial risk analysis that have helped shape or guide risk analysis efforts of other technologies. Included here is a brief overview of each of these presentations. Read more >

Art's Work/Genetic Futures News

At the Crossroads of Art and Biotech, a Warning: Be Careful What You Wish For

1/13/2020 - Brian Howe, Indy Week

“There are different ways of knowing things,” Gould adds. “That’s why Molly came up with the name: not artwork, but art’s work. What is an artist supposed to do?"

An Ancient Greek Festival For Creating Female Sperm

1/10/2020 - Grant Holub-Moorman & Anita Rao, WUNC The State of Things program

"I'm interested in how we can use art and science to break down some of these symbols to actually break down that hierarchy." - Charlotte Jarvis, Art's Work/Genetic Futures artist

Works - Art's Work in the Age of Biotechnology

1/7/2020 - Alice Fleerackers, Art the Science

The GES Center’s co-director entomologist Fred Gould, along with Molly Renda with NCSU Libraries’ Exhibit Program, had discussed creating an art exhibit that addressed the same ethical and practical questions being discussed among GES’s interdisciplinary scholars..."

For more info, visit the Art's Work/Genetic Futures site at go.ncsu.edu/artswork

Recent Publications

Scenario analysis on the use of rodenticides and sex-biasing gene drives for the removal of invasive house mice on islands

Megan E. Serr, Rene X. Valdez, Kathleen S. Barnhill-Dilling, John Godwin, Todd Kuiken & Matthew Booker.  Biological Invasions (2020) pp 1-14. Published: 02 January 2020.
 

Articulating ‘free, prior and informed consent’ (FPIC) for engineered gene drives

Dalton R. George, Todd Kuiken, and Jason A. DelborneProc. Royal Soc. B. Vol. 286, Issue 1917. Published: 18 December 2019.
 

Genetic Engineering and Society

Barnes, J., Pitts, E., Barnhill-Dilling, S., & Delborne, J. In T. Pittinsky (Ed.), Science, Technology, and Society: New Perspectives and Directions (pp. 203-233). Cambridge University Press. Published: November 2019.
 

Synthetic Biology 2020: Frontiers in Risk Analysis and Governance

Trump, B. D., Cummings, C. L., Kuzma, J. & Linkov, I. (2020). Springer, Cham. First online: 29 November 2019
 

Economic Principles and Concepts in Area-Wide Genetic Pest Management

Zachary Brown, Mike Jones, John Mumford. Eds. Onstad, D. W., & Crain, P. in The Economics of Integrated Pest Management of Insects. (pp. 96-121) 
 

From risk perception to risk governance in nanotechnology: a multi-stakeholder study.

Porcari, A., Borsella, E., Benighaus, C., Grieger, K. et al. Journal of Nanoparticle Research (2019) 21: 245. Published: 21 November 2019.
 

See all GES Faculty Publications at go.ncsu.edu/ges-pubs

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