Day 1: Monday, August 18, 2014
Session 1: Introduction to Animal Biotechnologies
Needs and Opportunities for Animal Biotechnology (Jim Murray, US)
Status Reports - Science and Technology Advances in Animal Biotechnologies
Livestock cloning (Flavio Meirelles, Brazil)
Gene editing in food animals (Scott Fahrenkrug, US)
Regulation of genetically modified animals in China (Chang Zhijie, China)
Precision genome engineering in the chicken (Mark Tizard, Australia)
Transgenic animals for agriculture (Jim Murray, US)
Session 2: Harmonization of Regulatory Approaches
Need for Harmonization - Lessons learned from the regulation of plant biotechnologies (Marcus Coelho, Brazil)
Policy and Trade: Innovation, regulation, and economic performance - The impact of asynchronous regulation on international trade (Alejandro Silva, Argentina)
Panel: Challenges and Opportunities for Regulatory Harmonization in Animal Biotechnology
Regulatory approaches in different countries (Eric Hallerman, US)
International organizations: Implications for rDNA animals (Luc Bourbonniere, Jim Louter, Canada)
Challenges and opportunities for harmonization of regulatory animal biotechnology (Luiz Antonio Barreto de Castro, Brazil)
Industry Panel: Impact of Differential Regulatory Approaches and Asynchrony on the use of Livestock Cloning
Regulatory harmonization and global trade (Claudo Bisioli, Argentina)
Differential impact of regulatory approaches and asynchrony of livestock cloning (Marc Masserati, Jr., Brazil)
Cloning value in bovine and animal agriculture (David Thorbahn, US)