New developments in genetic engineering - BVL

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Please regard that you are not allowed to take part in the
symposium without previous registration. You will need
your registration confirmation for access to the Federal
Foreign Office. We will send you the confirmation as soon as
possible. Furthermore, you will have to identify yourself at
the Federal Foreign Office with an ID bearing your photo.
Your journey
The Federal Foreign Office does not offer parking space. It is
recommended to use public transport (underground stations “Hausvogteiplatz”, “Französische Straße”, “Spittelmarkt”
and bus stops “Werderscher Markt” and “Spittelmarkt”).
Overnight stay
Challenges 2015:
New developments in genetic
engineering – new approaches
for regulatory acting?
We have blocked several rooms in selected hotels. If you are
interested, please book your room, stating the code “BVLSymposium”. Further information regarding the selected
hotels can be found on our website at:
www.bvl.bund.de/symposium2014
BVL-Symposium
Picture credits:
The cover picture shows a global promoter methylation analysis by nextgeneration sequencing (Picture: Lipp, Max-Delbrück-Center, Berlin)
Foto: BVL
Federal Foreign Office
Conference Center · Weltsaal
Unterwasserstraße 10
D-10117 Berlin
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• Closing remarks
Dr. Helmut Tschiersky, BVL
13.20-13.25 h
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• Conclusion
Prof. Dr. Detlef Bartsch, BVL
13.10-13.20 h
Federal Office of Consumer Protection
and Food Safety (BVL)
President’s Office
Mrs Ulrike Trapp
Bundesallee 50 · D-38116 Braunschweig
Phone: +49 (0)531 21 497 - 113
E-mail: [email protected]
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Note on guidelines
Technology impacts of biotechnology – Does our
conception of life change?
Prof. Dr. Armin Grunwald, Karlsruhe Institute
of Technology (KIT)
12.25-13.10 h
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• Coffee break
11.45-12.25 h
Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE)
Unit 122 – Management of Conferences and Meetings
Mr Alexander Galow
Wichmannstraße 6 · D-10787 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30 398 992 - 13
E-mail: [email protected]
Konferenzzentrum
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• Discussions on part 3
11.15-11.45 h
Symposium office and organisation
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• Economic perspective on coexistence: chances,
costs and benefits
Dr. Maarten Punt, Technische Universität München
10.50-11.15 h
The symposium will be held in German and English. German contributions will be translated simultaneously into
English.
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• Worldwide presence of genetically modified plants –
consequences for the surveillance authorities
Dr. Ulrich Busch, Bavarian State Office for Health
and Food Safety (LGL)
10.25-10.50 h
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The registration fee of 130 € (for federal employees 75 €) will
cover participation, coffee breaks and lunch. On 5 November
at 7 pm you are welcome to attend an evening event (dinner)
at the restaurant “Löwenbräu am Gendarmenmarkt”. An
additional contribution of 30 € is requested for the participation. Please indicate your participation by 16 October 2014 as
well.
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• Sustainable feed economy in the context of global
commodity acquisition
Dr. Hermann-Josef Baaken, Deutscher Verband
Tiernahrung e. V. (DVT)
10.00-10.25 h
We kindly ask you to register in good time and at the latest by
16 October 2014. The number of participants is limited. We
would welcome your registration online at:
www.bvl.bund.de/symposium2014
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• Assured GMO-free – strategies of the German industry
to guarantee the production of food under the
“Ohne Gentechnik” label
Alexander Hissting, Verband Lebensmittel ohne
Gentechnik e.V. (VLOG)
09.35-10.00 h
5.-6. November 2014
in Berlin
Dear Sir/Madam,
Over the past three decades, genetic
engineering has become an integral
part of our lives. Fundamental research in biology and medicine is no
longer imaginable today without
genetic engineering. For example
medicines, including vaccines, are
increasingly being produced by using genetically modified
microorganisms (GMO). Likewise, clothing and banknotes
have been produced from genetically modified cotton for
over ten years. About 50 % of enzymes which are necessary
for manufacturing products of daily use are manufactured
using GMOs, such as bakery products, fruit juice, cheese
and washing detergent. At the same time, many people still
have major reservations about the production of food
using genetically modified plants. Genetic engineering is a
complex subject and presents the BVL with a continuous
challenge.
Safety in genetic engineering is of the utmost importance
for the BVL: thorough checks, responsible decisions, transparent information and scientific advice. The consumer is
able to profit from the BVL's competence, the aim being to
manage risks before they lead to crises.
In the historical atmosphere of our special conference location we would like to examine new developments in genetic engineering with you, both in a national and an international context, and their influence on how authorities act.
We intend to address all those aspects which help the BVL
to handle future challenges as well as taking the interests of
all players into consideration at the same time.
I look forward to welcoming you in Berlin to our symposium!
Dr. Helmut Tschiersky
President
New developments in genetic engineering –
new approaches for regulatory acting?
• Coffee break
10.55-11.40 h
5 November 2014
Synthetic biology
• Risk assessment of genetically modified insects – step by step
Dr. Marc Schetelig, Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular
Biology and Applied Ecology IME
15.10-15.30 h
• Registration
8.00-9.00 h
• Progress of artifical cell research and its implications
on risk assessment
Prof. Dr. Steen Rasmussen, FLinT – Center for
Fundamental Living Technology, Odense, Denmark
11.40-12.05 h
• Engineered nucleases for targeted genome editing
and gene regulation
Dr. Katia Pauwels, Scientific Institute of Public Health,
Biosafety and Biotechnology Unit (SBB), Belgium
15.30-15.50 h
• How far can biology be redesigned?
Dr. Vitor Pinheiro, Institute of Structural and Molecular
Biology, London, United Kingdom
12.05-12.30 h
• Discussions on part 2
15.50-16.20 h
• Opening
Dr. Helmut Tschiersky, BVL
9.00-9.10 h
• Welcome speech
Dr. Klaus Heider, Head of Directorate-General, Federal
Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL)
9.10-9.20 h
• Laudation and farewell speech on Dr. Hans-Jörg Buhk
Dr. Gernot Schubert, Head of Unit (ret.), former Federal
Ministry of Health
9.20-9.30 h
• Welcome speech and farewell
Dr. Hans-Jörg Buhk, BVL
9.30-09.40 h
Part 1: New developments in genetic engineering
operations/ZKBS
• Tracing the risk
Prof. Dr. Herbert Pfister, University of Cologne,
Chairman of the Central Committee on Biological
Safety (ZKBS)
9.40-10.05 h
• Hazardous GMO – State-of-the-art safety technology
protecting humans, animals and environment
Dr. Sven Deutschmann, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, ZKBS
10.05-10.30 h
• Certainly modified? Influenza viruses in nature and in
laboratory
Prof. Dr. Thomas Vahlenkamp, University of Leipzig, ZKBS
10.30-10.55 h
• Discussions on part 1
12.30-13.00 h
• Lunch break
13.00-14.00 h
Part 2: Novel/new GMO - new challenges for
the risk assessment
• Introductory note
Dr. Ulrich Ehlers, BVL
14.00-14.10 h
• Coffee break
16.20-17.15 h
Panel discussion: Risk perception and risk
commumnication
PD Dr. Gaby-Fleur Böl, Federal Institute for Risk
Assessment (BfR)
Uwe Moldrzyk, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Joachim Müller-Jung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Jürgen Stellpflug, Ökotest
17.15-18.45 h
• Evening event
19.00 h
• Sustainable plant protection against insects using RNAi
Prof. Dr. Andreas Vilcinskas,
Justus Liebig University Gießen
14.10-14.30 h
6 November 2014
• Risk assessment considerations for RNAi-based GM
plants
Dr. Matthew Ramon, European Food Safety Authority
(EFSA)
14.30-14.50 h
• Introductory note
Dr. Joachim Bendiek, BVL
09.00-09.10 h
• GM-Insects industries point of view
Dr. Camilla Beech, Oxitec Ltd, United Kingdom
14.50-15.10 h
Part 3: International challenges for industry and
surveillance
• Challenges and problems from the perspective
of food industry
Dr. Marcus Girnau, German Federation for
Food Law and Food Science (BLL)
09.10-09.35 h