Extended deadline: CfP conference Bio-innovation & societal aspects
Mykola S. Shestavin
Call for Poster Abstracts
Submit your abstract before January 15 by sending it to Ms Olga
Crapels: cra...@society-lifesciences.nl .
From 9-11 May 2012, the conference Towards a sustainable bio-based
society: aligning scientific and societal agendas for bio-innovation
will take place in Amsterdam. This conference is organized by CSG
(Centre for Society and the Life Sciences) in collaboration with the
European Science Foundation (ESF), the ESRC Genomics Network (EGN,
United Kingdom) and GEN-AU (Austria).
Confirmed Keynote Speakers: George Gaskell, Ruth Chadwick, Herbert
Gottweis, Luuk van der Wielen, Christine Hauskeller, David Castle, Hub
Zwart, Jan van Hest
Bringing together participants from academia (senior experts as well
as early stage researchers), industry and policy, this international,
interdisciplinary conference will:
identify key trends in the co-evolution of contemporary bio-societies
on the one hand and life science research on the other
explore the opportunities, challenges and concerns for society at
large arising from these trends
develop a roadmap towards a sustainable bio-based economy through the
alignment of scientific and societal agendas.
This meeting will include plenary presentations by keynote speakers,
interviews, forum discussion as well as poster presentation sessions.
We hereby invite early stage researchers (e.g. Ph.D. researchers and
post-docs) to submit proposals for poster presentations on issues
relevant for life sciences, policy, industry, funding agencies and
media. These might include (but are not confined to) reflections on
the societal aspects of the following issues:
• Sustainable bio-innovation
• Societal impact of synthetic biology and bionanoscience
• Private/public partnerships and IPR
• Biomimesis, biomaterials and biofuels
General information about the conference, and the submission details
for the call for poster abstracts can be found on the conference
website (still under construction):
www.listen-network.nl/esf-conference