Day 4

Thursday, September 15  

Session 9 (8:30am – 10:20am) Panel - Regulatory experiences with genome-edited animals

Moderator: Pedro Rocha

• • GnEd Cattle in Brazil (CTNBio – Luiz Sergio and Rubens Nascimento)/Argentina 

  • GnEd Cattle in Argentina - Ana Maria Perez O’Brien, Acceligen

  • Panel - Access and Benefits Sharing: Challenges of researchers and developers with movement of tissues between countries and coordination of conventional and biotech regulations

    • Luiz Sergio De Almeida Camargo (EMBRAPA), Ana Maria Perez O’Brien (Acceligen), Mark Tizard (CSIRO), Chantal March (AquaBounty), Christian Tiambo (ILRI), Popoola Mustapha (Nigeria)

Session 10 (10:30am – 11:30pm) Presentations/Panel discussion – How countries make agency decisions and is it possible to harmonize?

Moderator: Hellen Mbaya

Examples of regulatory cooperation (plant or animal)

• Working together to facilitate import and export (Melody Maxwell, APHIS/IS, Brazil)

• Latin American experience of regulatory cooperation (Pedro Rocha, IICA)

• Harmonization with Brazil and Argentina (Andres Maggi, SENASA, Argentina)                                     

Session 11 (11:30am – 12:35pm) Building trust in Animal Biotechnology

Moderator: Rhodora (Olah) Romero-Aldemita, ISAAA, Inc.  

• Building trust with the public, Mahaletchumy Arujanan, ISAAA

• Industry view (Chantal March, AquaBounty, USA) – “What a great new product! Will anyone buy it??? – A Fishy Tale”

• Panel above plus: Alison Van Eenennaam (UC-Davis), Clint Nesbitt (Genus), Andrew Bailey (NPPC)

Session B3 (1:50pm – 3:20pm) Concurrent breakout discussions on regulatory cooperation and building trust

·         Framing talk – Types of cooperation? How do we keep the conversation going?

• B3a: Regulators/govt officials: - Break outs/small groups to discuss regulatory cooperation 

Overall coordinator: Margaret Karembu with support Hellen Mbaya

• • Discussion Leads and Scribes:

  • Topic 1 Opportunities for cooperation and harmonization/alignment and sharing of risk assessments across countries (reduce duplication) and data transportability (mechanism)

  • Leader/scribe – Pedro Rocha; USA/FAS/LES

  • Topic 2 How to get publicly funded to market – movement of tissues

  • Leader/scribe – Argentina (Gabriela Garrappa); Luiz Sergio

  • Topic 3 Conventional/biosafety challenges and how this applies to biotech products for trust and cooperation

    • Leader/scribe – Dan Kovich (USDA); USA/FAS/LES

  • Topic 4 Maintaining public confidence and trust without inhibiting innovation

  • Leader/scribe – Anastasia Bodnar (USDA); Rhodora (Olah) Romero-Aldemita

  • B3b: Researcher/developers/industry: Addressing barriers to public trust

Session 12 (3:30pm – 5:55pm) Looking to the future      

Moderator: Eric Hallerman

• • Report back to general session B3 and B2 

• Discussion - How do we keep the conversation going?