Day 2

Tuesday, September 13

Session 2 (continued) (8:30am – 8:50am) Animal biotechnologies in the pipeline and future possibilities

•   Agricultural applications in China to enhance sustainability (Kui Li, China)

Session 3 (8:50am – 10:10am) Biosafety and conventionally-bred animals

Moderator: Maria Dagli, CTNBio, Brazil

• • Biosafety on the Farm (Viviani Gomes, Brazil)

• Food Safety at Slaughter (Christyn Stumps, FSIS) – what measures are in place for protecting human and animal health for conventional products? – USDA/FSIS

• How do agencies/ministries with shared responsibility work together? (Maria Dagli, UFSP, Brazil)

• Protecting the genetics in the breeding population, using genomics (Sofía Ortega, University of Wisconsin, USA)                    

Session 4 (10:20am – 12:40pm) Concepts in biotech regulatory approaches

Moderator: Mahaletchumy Arujanan, ISAAA BioTrust

• • Codex Alimentarius (Andres Maggi, Argentina)

• Cartagena Protocol (Pedro Rocha, IICA)

• Familiarity – what can we learn from what we already know? Drawing from: experience with biotech plants, “conventional” food safety, animal breeding/sequencing data (Jose Fernando, Brazil)

PANEL: Off Target changes, conventional mutation and regulatory approaches for genome editing [regulator, academic, industry perspectives] (~11:30am – 12:40pm)

Moderator: Anastasia Bodnar

• • Luiz Sergio Camargo (Brazil), Florencia Goberna (Argentina), Simon Lillico (UK), Tad Sonstegard (USA)

Session 5 (1:30pm – 2:30pm) Risk Assessment

Moderator: Mariana Murrone, Argentina

• • Problem Formulation: Identification, evaluation, mitigation and control of risks (Andrew Roberts, AFSI, USA)

• Food safety and nutritional considerations (Marilia Nutti, EMBRAPA, Brazil)

• Environmental assessment - unique issues and potential risks for biotech animals (Eric Hallerman, VaTech, USA)  

Session 6 (2:30pm – 6:30pm) Putting Animal Biotechnology in Context (including Socioeconomic Considerations and Public Outreach/Communication)

Moderator: Caitlin Cooper 

• Animal Welfare -  Video Version (Adroaldo Zanella, University of São Paulo, Brazil)

• Ethical issues: Genome editing of agricultural animals (Sarah Chan, University of Edinburgh, UK)

• Cost of disease burden, from different perspectives (Dustin Pendell, USA)

• Economic impact of regulatory approach (Gabriela Garrappa, Argentina)

• Trade perspectives and obligations (Andrew Devine, USTR, USA)

• Communicating with the general public about GMOs and genome edited organisms (Alison Van Eenennaam, University of California – Davis, USA)

• Government communication strategies (Anastasia Bodnar, USDA)

PANEL: Communication and public engagement (in-person only)

Moderator: Margaret Karembu

• • Alison Van Eenennaam, Anastasia Bodnar, Mahaletchumy Arujanan