Two-day interdisciplinary conference with workshops organized by the BMBF research project GenomELECTION.
Date: 10.10.2018 – 11.10.2018
Location: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
The conference is free of charge, a registration is required.
The conference seeks to promote a fair and balanced risk assessment across disciplines, as well as the transparency of decision-making and an informed public debate, in a dialogue between scientific and medical research, ethics, law and the social sciences.
The joint research project “GenomELECTION” will compile and answer socio-ethical, legal, and science communication related issues of modern methods of genome editing such as CRISPR/Cas9, TALENs, zinc finger nucleases, etc. relating to their meaning for both research and application. The joint research project “GenomELECTION” is composed of ethicists and lawyers of Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, as well as communication scientists from the Naturkundemuseum Berlin (Museum of Natural History Berlin).