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A Multilateral Solution to the DSI Dilemma?

DATE: July 5-6, 2021

LOCATION: Online

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.

Dr. Rajeev Varshney, ICRISAT (CGIAR) & Murdoch University

  • 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

Rodrigo Sara, One Planet Solutions

  • 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

Prof. Dorington Ogoyi, CEO, National Biosafety Authority, Kenya

  • 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

Michael Halewood, Alliance of Biodiversity International and CIAT, CGIAR Genebank Platform

  • 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

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