Event Details
Agenda
8:30am
Welcomes
Dean Charles Muscoplat, Minnesota, College of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Sciences
Dean E. Thomas Sullivan, Minnesota, Law School
Opening remarks
Provost Robert Bruininks, Minnesota
8:45am
What Have We Learned and Where Will We Go with Agricultural Biotechnology?
Dr. Roger Beachy, Danforth Plant Science Center, Plant Biology
9:15am
The Science and Regulation of Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants
Prof. Perry Adkisson, Texas A&M, Entomology
9:45am
Commentators
Prof. Jim Chen, Minnesota, Law School
Prof. David Somers, Minnesota, Agronomy & Plant Genetics
10:00am
Audience Q & A
10:30am
Coffee Break
10:45am
Assessing Environmental and Evolutionary Impacts
Dr. Rebecca Goldburg (Environmental Defense)
11:15am
Commentators
Prof. Anne Kapuscinski, Minnesota, Fisheries & Wildlife
Prof. Daniel Farber, Minnesota, Law School
Prof. Nevin Young, Minnesota, Plant Pathology
11:30am
Audience Q & A
12:00pm
Seated luncheon in HHH Atrium
12:30 pm
Biotechnology: An Idea Before Its Time?
Edward Shonsey, President & CEO, Syngenta Seeds
12:45pm
Audience Q & A
12:55pm
How Reporters Cover Science
Sharon Schmickle, Reporter, Minneapolis Star Tribune
1:15pm
Audience Q & A
1:30pm
Social Perspectives on Biotechnology
Prof. Thomas Hoban, North Carolina State, Sociology & Anthropology
2:00pm
Corporate Concerns and Intellectual Property
Prof. Jerome Reichman, Duke University Law School
2:30pm
Commentators
Prof. Jean Kinsey, Minnesota, Applied Economics
Prof. Dan Burk, Minnesota, Law School
2:45pm
Audience Q & A
3:15pm
Coffee Break
3:30pm
Agricultural Biotechnology, Justice, and the Good
Prof. Paul Thompson, Purdue, Philosophy
4:00pm
Commentators
Prof. Ronald Phillips, Minnesota, Agronomy & Plant Genetics
Prof. C. Ford Runge, Minnesota, Applied Economics
Prof. Jeffrey Kahn, Minnesota, Center for Bioethics
4:15pm
Audience Q & A
5:00pm
Adjourn