Four webinars focused on researchers’ experience and priorities regarding DSI. Panelists discussed the implications of an access and benefit sharing (ABS) system for digital sequence information (DSI) in the context of the Convention on Biological Diversity, reflecting on lessons learned from existing ABS arrangements, such as under the Nagoya Protocol and the ITPGRFA.
Asia-Pacific Webinar – July 5th, 2021
Moderator:
Dr. Rajeev Varshney, ICRISAT (CGIAR) & Murdoch University
Panelists:
Dr. Yogesh Shouche, National Center for Mircobial Resource, India
Prof. Charles Lawson, Griffith University (TBC)
Dr. Amber Scholz, DSMZ Leibniz Institute
Prof. Elizador T. Yu, The Marine Science Institute, University of the Pihillipines
Prof. Mutsuaki Suzuki, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Latin America Webinar – July 5th, 2021
Moderator:
Rodrigo Sara, One Planet Solutions
Panelists:
Alejandra Sierra, Mariano Galvez University, Guatemala
Felipe García Cardona, Institute for Biological Alexander von Humboldt, Colombia
Scarlett Sett, European Virus Archive (EVA-GLOBAL), Germany
Ibon Cancio, European Marine Biological Resource Centre – Spain (EMBRC-Spain) & University of the Basque Country, Spain
Manuela da Silva, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Brazil
Africa Webinar – July 6th, 2021
Moderator:
Moderated by Prof. Dorington Ogoyi, CEO, National Biosafety Authority, Kenya
Panelists:
Douglas W. Miano, University of Nairobi, Kenya
Kassahun Tesfaye, Ethiopia Biotechnology Institute, Ethiopia
Halima Benbouza, University of Batna and National Council of Scientific Research and Technologies, Algeria
Krystal Tolley, South African National Biodiversity Institute, South Africa
Christian Keambou Tiambo, Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health – ILRI, Kenya
Europe and North America – July 6th, 2021
Moderator:
Michael Halewood, Alliance of Biodiversity International and CIAT, CGIAR Genebank Platform
Panelists:
Christopher H.C. Lyal, Natural History Museum, UK
Raquel Hurtado Ortiz, National Collection of Cultures of Microorganisms (CNCM), Institut Pasteur, France
Amber Scholz, Leibniz Institute DSMZ, Germany
Guy Cochrane, European Molecular Biology Laboratory European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), UK