Keywords: Webinar
Register: Gene Drive Technologies: Advances in Health, Conservation, and Governance
35290ISAAA Inc., 2025-11-09 17:48:40.
ISAAA, Inc., in partnership with the Outreach Network for Gene Drive Research, will host a free webinar titled Gene Drive Technologies: Advances in Health, Conservation, and Governance on November 20, 2025, from 3:00 to 4:30 PM GMT+8 via Zoom. Gene drive technology is rapidly advancing, offering powerful new tools with the potential to tackle some of the world's most pressing challenges in public health and environmental conservation. Thus, this webinar will cover core concepts on gene drive while providing timely updates on real-world progress, emerging policy discussions, and the evolving societal considerations shaping the gene drive landscape. Dr. Rhodora Romero-Aldemita, Executive Director of ISAAA, Inc., will moderate the discussions. What You'll Learn Introduction to gene drive technologies and potential applications (Dr. Jackson Champer, Peking University) Advances in gene drive for vector-borne disease control (Dr. Brian Tarimo, Transmission Zero) Progress on projects for invasive species and biodiversity protection (Dr. Gelshan Godohewa, University of Adelaide) Stakeholder engagement for gene drive: best practices and challenges (Delphine Thizy, Independent consultant) Regulation and risk assessment (Dr. Brinda Dass, Foundation for the National Institutes of Health) Limited slots only. Register now.
ISAAA Inc. | Genetic Tools For Conservation and Health: What’s The Role of Gene Drives?
28634Kristine Grace N. Tome, Science Speaks, 2023-12-04 11:20:10.
ISAAA Inc., in partnership with the Outreach Network for Gene Drive Research and the Malaysian Biotechnology Information Centre (MABIC), gathered approximately 834 online participants during the webinar Genetic Tools for Conservation and Health: What's the Role of Gene Drives? held on November 16, 2023, via Zoom and livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube. The online session is the first of the 2023 Gene Drive Webinar Series that focuses on the interests of specific countries and aims to promote a productive and balanced conversation on the benefits and risks of possible gene drive applications relevant to national priorities. The Philippines has been picked as the first country to be engaged in the webinar series. The Philippines has been at the forefront of biotechnology research and regulation in Asia for a long time and plays an important role in shaping the region’s views on novel technologies and developing expertise.
GeneConvene Global Collaborative Webinar Series | Emerging Gene Drive Systems 2023
24769David O'Brochta, 2023-02-22 15:50:48.
Gene drive systems are being engineered in the laboratory and in some cases shown to be effective at rapidly altering target-gene frequencies in experimental populations. Much of this foundational work has been conducted in insects in the laboratory. This webinar series will focus on emerging potential applications of gene drive technology in a wide variety of organisms. These webinars are intended to inform audiences of the rationale for these development efforts, the current state of research and development and outstanding challenges.
GeneConvene Global Collaborative Webinar Series | Wolbachia Biology, Mechanisms and Applications 2022
23723David O'Brochta, GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2022-10-15 06:57:26.
Intracellular and extracellular symbiotic/commensal bacteria have enormous potential when manipulated and deployed appropriately to serve as agents of control of insects and the pathogens they transmit. Wolbachia, an intracellular bacteria, is a well studied system and one that is used increasingly to control insect populations via cytoplasmic incompatibility and to alter the vectoral capacity of insect via pathogen inhibition. This webinar series will survey the applications of Wolbachia as a mosquito/dengue control intervention and the underlying biology that conditions its effectiveness.
GeneConvene Global Collaborative | Laboratory Containment of Arthropods Capable of Gene Drive: Best Practices and Recommendations
23739Hector Quemada, GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2022-10-13 14:19:28.
This webinar is presented by members of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene's American Committee of Medical Entomologists who were involved in drafting a recent Addendum to the ASTMH's Arthropod Containment Guidelines that specifically consider arthropods with gene drive systems. https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/vbz.2021.0035
GeneConvene Global Collaborative Webinar Series | Demystifying the Convention on Biological Diversity – Seven Videos
21940Hector Quemada and David O'Brochta, GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2022-04-28 12:39:49.
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is an international agreement aimed at providing the legal framework for country cooperation to conserve biodiversity, while also enabling its sustainable use, and providing for fair and equitable sharing of the benefits derived from that use. It became effective in 1993 when the first 30 countries signed it, but now has 196 parties. Biotechnology figures prominently in this agreement, since one of its major goal is to "promote and advance priority access on a fair and equitable basis by Contracting Parties, especially developing countries, to the results and benefits arising from biotechnologies." The CBD provides the basis for regulations on biotechnologies, particularly genetically engineered organisms (including gene drive organisms). While the convention, and its subsidiary agreements, have a significant impact on the regulatory environment within which synthetic gene drive research takes place, the procedures and decision-making processes connected with the CBD are often not transparent to researchers and others who do not closely follow the proceedings.
GeneConvene Global Collaborative Webinar Series | Genetic Drive Systems in Nature
20552David O'Brochta and Hector Quemada, GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2022-03-09 14:02:21.
Intra genomic genetic conflicts are ubiquitous in nature and have shaped and continue to shape the evolution of plants, animals, and microbes. These conflicts can result in preferential transmission - drive - of genes, various genetic elements, and even whole chromosomes. Interest in drive systems extends beyond the basic sciences to technologists who are exploring natural and synthetic drives as agents to suppress or modify species in nature. This webinar series will explore the variety of drive systems found in nature, mechanisms responsible for drive and impacts of drive on behavior and evolution..
GeneConvene Global Collaborative Webinar Series | Decision and Analysis Tools for Complex Problems
18961Hector Quemada and David O'Brochta, GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2021-10-13 20:07:26.
The challenges associated with the multiple phases of testing and possible deployment of gene drive-containing organisms appear to have similarities to those associated with various aspects of invasive species management. Preventing unwanted spread of the target species as well as monitoring and surveillance over large spatial scales are just two. Managing invasive species depends on making decisions based on an incomplete and sometimes very limited understanding of the relevant community ecology and the ever-present risk of unintended consequences. Can the deep experiences of those involved in invasive species management be leveraged against challenges in the gene drive domain? This webinar series will begin to explore that question.
GeneConvene Global Collaborative Webinar Series | Controlling Gene Drives
18324David O'Brochta and Hector Quemada, GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2021-09-07 15:47:37.
Some gene drive technologies being explored in the laboratory for possible use in the control and elimination of malaria in Africa are predicted to efficiently spread and persist indefinitely following their initial release into an environment containing the targeted mosquito species. While the autonomous properties of some gene drive technologies are desirable features that are expected to make them effective at controlling hard to reach populations of targeted mosquitoes and to provide sustained control with minimal additional inputs, the ability to control spread and persistence remains important. This series of webinars will feature researchers and developers exploring various control options for gene drive technologies.
GeneConvene Global Collaborative Webinar Series | Invasive Species Management: Informing Gene Drive Considerations
19307David O'Brochta and Hector Quemada, GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2021-08-07 13:38:24.
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.
GeneConvene Global Collaborative Webinar Series | Ecological Relationships of Mosquito Disease Vectors: Anticipating Risk Assessment of Gene Drive Technologies
16713Stephanie James, Hector Quemada and David O'Brochta, GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2021-04-14 18:05:39.
An often-raised concern for the development of genetically modified mosquito technologies, particularly those involving gene drive, as tools to prevent disease transmission is the limitation of our understanding of the roles these species may play within the ecosystem. This series of webinars begins to explore what is known about the ecological relationships of mosquito vectors with regard to major types of species interactions. The speakers also will describe some of the methods by which potential interactions that may impact human or animal health and the environment can be examined in the context of case-by-case risk assessment and safety testing.
Renew Europe | The science & ethics of gene drive technology from a conservation & development perspective
16584Renew Europe, Renew Europe, 2021-03-05 15:18:26.
This hearing intends to examine gene-drive technology and its possible impacts, including unintended ones and reveal the complexity of an unknown technology with inherent uncertainties. Scientists from different backgrounds in the field of gene-drive research will present most recent scientific findings and allow us to exchange on a technical, but also ethical debate. Hosted by MEPs Soraya Rodríguez & Charles Goerens with a keynote speech by Commissioner for Envinronment Virginijus Sinkevičius.
GeneConvene Global Collaborative Webinar Series | Ecological Modeling in Risk Assessment of Gene Drives
16445Hector Quemada and David O'Brochta, 2021-02-23 18:20:53.
Unlike non-gene drive organisms, which can be limited in time and space and therefore provide data in small scale tests that can be relevant to large scale releases, the potential for large-scale spread from a limited release, even in well-isolated trials, means that reliance on models will be a more important tool for risk assessors. To date, this work has only started to receive attention. This series of four presentations deals with the development and use of models in ecology generally. Some of these presentations will also deal with the use of models specifically to assess the ecological impacts of gene drive organisms.
GeneConvene Global Collaborative Webinar Series | Genetic Biocontrol 2021
16249David O'Brochta and Hector Quemada, GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2021-02-05 21:53:11.
In the mid 20th century various ideas emerged concerning how genetics and genetic principles could be directly applied to age-old problems of managing insects that threaten food security and public health. This series of webinars will explore the current state-of-the-art of what has been termed genetic control, genetic pest management and genetic biocontrol. It will cover the use of sterility, conditional dominant lethality and Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility. Gene drive, another type of genetic biocontrol, will not be covered in this series; it was recently the focus of webinar series dedicated to the topic.
FKMCD – Oxitec | Mosquito Project Webinar Series
15564Oxitec Ltd, FKMCD and Oxitec, 2020-12-18 15:43:23.
This FKMCD - Oxitec Public Educational Webinar, our ninth, shows how Oxitec's just-add-water technology helps control the Aedes aegypti mosquito population. The second half of the webinar includes questions and answers with attendees.
ARRIGE 2020 Meeting | The promise of CRISPR and gene drive systems to end malaria in Africa
15145E. Gomez-Diaz, ARRIGE org, 2020-11-16 17:08:32.
Presentation by Elena Gómez Díaz (IPBLN-CSIC, Granada, Spain) at the ARRIGE 2020 meeting on "The promise of CRISPR and gene drive systems to end malaria in Africa". Discussion is included at the end of the Ruud de Maagd presentation.https://youtu.be/te3MJ8EZoes
NIH NExTRAC (Novel and Exceptional Technology and Research Advisory Committee) | Workshop
15015NIH Office of Science Policy, National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2020-11-09 19:56:25.
NExTRAC provides advice to the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on matters related to the conduct and oversight of research involving emerging technologies in biomedical science. NExTRAC also makes recommendations on research involving the use of, and developments in, emerging biotechnologies and will address scientific, safety, ethical, and social issues associated with areas of emerging biotechnology research for which the NIH requests advice or guidance. One of the technologies this committee is considering is gene drive. The November 2020 meeting was a workshop: GENE DRIVES: BIOSAFETY GUIDANCE AND CONDITIONS FOR FIELD RELEASE RESEARCH
GeneConvene Global Collaborative | Research and Innovation for biodiversity: what role for gene drive research?
14968EP Intergroup CCBSD, European Bureau of Conservation and Development, 2020-11-06 19:06:04.
This webinar will provide an overview of how gene drive works and the problems it seeks to solve, introduce the most advanced research projects on gene drive in the sector of public health and conservation and present the work that international and European bodies such as WHO, IUCN and EFSA are carrying out on gene drive. It will also be an opportunity to address any questions participants may have with regards to gene drive and stimulate an open debate on the safe and responsible development of the research in this field.
GeneConvene Global Collaborative Webinar Series | Engineered Gene Drives: Policy and Regulatory Considerations Webinar Series October-December 2020
14808Hector Quemada and David O'Brochta, GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2020-10-22 19:38:17.
In this series of webinars the regulatory and policy challenges of moving new innovative genetic biocontrol products such as gene drive technologies to the field will be featured. Each seminar is ~60 minutes in length followed by questions and answers.
GeneConvene Global Collaborative Webinar Series | Gene Drive Policy and Regulatory Considerations 2020
14677Hector Quemada and David O'Brochta, GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2020-10-13 17:50:24.
This is series of webinars the regulatory and policy challenges of moving new innovative genetic biocontrol products such as gene drive technologies to the field will be featured.
GeneConvene Global Collaborative Webinar Series | Gene Drive Policy and Regulatory Consideration
14670Hector Quemada and David O'Brochta, GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2020-10-13 17:34:35.
This is series of webinars the regulatory and policy challenges of moving new innovative genetic biocontrol products such as gene drive technologies to the field will be featured.
GeneConvene Global Collaborative Webinar Series | Gene Drive Technical Webinars
14347David O'Brochta and Hector Quemada, GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2020-10-12 02:54:40.
A series of technical webinars on engineered gene drive technology research and development given by leading researchers in the field.
ENSSER | Gene Drive Webinar Series
12568European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility, 2020-06-16 20:50:52.
This series of five Webinars by some of the authors of the interdisciplinary Gene Drive Report (2019) and were organised by four organisations of independent scientists: the European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSER), Critical Scientists Switzerland (CSS), Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler (VDW), Sciences Citoyennes (SC). The series was aimed at a lay audience and were intended to address these questions. Does it really work? Is it being applied? What problems do gene drives address? What side effects can they have? Who has an interest in this? Should we do it? Are gene drives regulated by law? Are they a wise solution to these problems? Who decides?
Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler e.V. | Gene Drive Symposium-Critical Science Switzerland
6674Critical Scientists Switzerland; European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility; Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler, 2019-05-24 18:26:07.
Dr. Kevin Esvelt, MIT | Gene Drive
5482iBiology, 2019-01-15 18:05:30.
Dr. Kevin Esvelt explains how CRISPR-based gene drives can be used to spread genetic alterations through wild populations. He discusses strategies to maximize benefit and minimize risk.
RealSciLine | Gene Drives Media Briefing
6513Rick Weiss, RealSciLine, 2018-04-25 16:07:20.
Gene drives represent a new take on genetic engineering offering previously impossible means of fighting disease-spreading insects and invasive species but also raising the specter of ecological disruption. This briefing reviews the current status of gene-drive technology, applications under consideration, and related ethical, legal, and regulatory issues.
Centre for Effective Altruism | Gene drive and the case for reforming research
5476K. Esvelt, N. Labenz, G. Church, Centre for Effective Altruism, 2017-06-17 17:50:19.
The wisdom with which we develop and deploy new technologies will define the future of our civilization. Why do we conduct reseearch in small teams of specialists who cannot reliably anticipate consequences on their own? Might it be better to share our best ideas and plans with others, actively inviting concerns, criticism, and possible improvements? Unfortunately, the current system has evolved to punish sharing. By highlighting the benefits of an open approach and the dangers of the status quo, gene drive may allow us to test a new approach and change the governing incentives. + Fireside Chat with George Church, Kevin Esvelt, Nathan Labenz
National Academies of Science | Workshop: Science, Ethics, and Governance Considerations for Gene Drive Research – 2015
5544National Academy of Sciences Engineering Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, 2015-10-28 21:53:14.
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