GeneConvene Global Collaborative Webinar Series | Invasive Species Management: Informing Gene Drive Considerations
GeneConvene Global Collaborative Webinar Series | Invasive Species Management: Informing Gene Drive Considerations
Tags: Field trials, Gene drive, Genetic biocontrol, Invasive species, Rodents, WebinarDavid O'Brochta and Hector Quemada, GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2021. [YouTube Playlist]
October 13, 27, November 3 2021
Washington, D.C.
The management, control and elimination of invasive species involves solving problems that have analogs to those anticipating the use of gene drive technologies to control and eliminate malaria in Africa. Avoiding unintended consequences from interventions designed to reduce or remove a species from an ecosystem has parallels in some applications of gene drive technologies. Monitoring and surveilling for the movement of invasive species is critical for making management decisions and methods and approaches that have been devised to deal with challenges such as large geographic areas, low species densities, limited resources to name just a few could inform thinking about monitoring and surveillance of gene drive-containing organisms. This series of webinars by invasive species specialists will feature research into how these challenges are being successfully addressed.
