This workshop looks potentially interesting.
Public Dialogue Wednesday 9 March
Lindisfarne Centre, St Aidan’s College, Durham University
5pm Wednesday March 9th
Programme
5.15 pm Introduction to the Meeting – Dr Patrick Steel (Durham University)
5.20 – 6.45 pm A series of short talks from experts in the field providing a personalised view of synthetic biology and its future impact:
Dr Ray Elliott, Syngenta Ltd, “What Synthetic biology can do for agriculture”
Prof Mark Harvey, Centre for Research in Economic Sociology and Innovation, University of Essex, “Energy, food, materials and climate change: the 21st century challenge to biological science and technology”
Prof John Ward, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, “What synthetic biology can offer for bioengineering”
Prof Robert Song, Department of Theology Durham University, “Synthetic Biology: Some ethical issues”6.45-7.00 Refreshments
7.00-8.30 pm Open Discussion Between Panels and Audience Chaired by:
Prof Robert Edwards, Chief Scientific Officer for the Food Environment Research Agency
Prof Phil Macnaghten, Institute of Hazard Risk and Resilience, Durham University8.30 Buffet – free for all registered participants
SPPI-NET 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. The IAS (Institute of Advanced Study) is Durham University’s ideas-based Institute which brings together some of the world’s finest researchers from every discipline to examine themes of major intellectual, scientific, political and practical significance.
pace my earlier post about theological ethics, I’m assured by people whose opinion is sound that Song is a decent ethicist; I’ll suspend my grumbles in his case.