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1st EMBL/EMBO Joint Conference 2000 Abstracts
Developing new dialogue
Antibiotics for the 21st century
Julian Davies, University of British Colombia, Canada

Biotechnology at the beginning of the third millennium: facts and global trends
Manfred Kern, Aventis, Germany

Biotechnology, bio-industry, bio-business
Charles Kurland, BMC, Sweden and Chris Leaver, Oxford University, UK

Business with biotech: Europe vs. USA – reality vs. wishful thinking
Friedrich von Bohlen, lion Bioscience AG, Germany

Debating human identity: institutional commitments and consequences
Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University, USA

Defending animal use in biotechnology
Alan Colman, PPL Therapeutics

Framing public perceptions of risk: agricultural GMOs in Europe
Claire Marris, University of Versailles, France

From Science to Society
Chair Lewis Wolpert, Professor of Biology as Applied to Medicine, University College London, UK

From Pan to pandemic: HIV and AIDS
Robin Weiss, University College London, UK

From the sequence of our genes to medical utility
Andrea Ballabio, TIGEM, Italy

Genetic research and common diseases
Karl Stefánsson, deCode Genetics, Iceland

The genomic turn: is the genome the new name of the soul?
Alexandre Mauron, University of Geneva

Medical uses of genetic information: gene therapy, prenatal diagnostics, and population genetics
Chair Jens Reich, Max-delbrck-Centrum, Germany

On human genome projects: uses and abuses
John Collinge, Imperial College London, UK

Panel discussion: biotechnology and its discontents
Julian Kinderlerer [Chair], Sheffield University, UK
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, MPI History of Science, Germany
Mark Cantley, European Commission, Belgium
Sheila jasanoff, Harvard University, USA
Stefan Flothmann, Greenpeace, Germany
David Dickinson, Nature, UK

Panel discussion: how to restore public trust in science
Maynard Olson [Chair], University of Washington, USA
Beate Weber, Lady Major of Heidelberg, Germany
Tom Wilkie, Wellcome Trust, UK
Julian Kinderlerer, Sheffield University, UK
Orla Smith, Science, USA
Maurizio Laccarino, International Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, Italy

Panel discussion: public understanding of genetic information
Alastair Kent [Chair], Genetic Interest Group, UK
Barbara Cohen, Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research, USA
Jean Louis Mandel, IGBMC, France
Alexandre Mauron, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Vivienne Parry, BBC, UK

Panel discussion: science in the spotlight
Julian Kinderlerer [Chair], Sheffield University, UK

Past and future of behavioural genetics
Benno Müller-Hill, University of Cologne, Germany

Science in theater
Carl Djerassi, Stanford University, USA

Science in theater: an historical account
Ivo Schneider, Bunderswehr Universität, MÐnich, Germany

The human genome project: a scientist's view of what went right and what went wrong
Maynard Olson, University of Washington, USA

The Saga of BSE
John Collinge, Imperial College, London, UK

The social costs of better disease treatments
Peter Goodfellow, SmithKleine Beecham Pharmaceuticals, UK

Why framing processes in risk science are important í but still neglected
Brian Wynne, Lancaster University, UK
Last updated by: Halldór Stefánsson, 1 August 2007
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