The CISYNBIO Team:
Amelie Cserer IDC
International Dialogue and Conflict Management (IDC):
IDC is an interdisciplinary non-profit association of scientists from a variety of different scholarly disciplines, such as physics, biology, social and political sciences.
Our aim is to promote international scientific exchange and cooperation in order to tackle global, environmental and socio-economic challenges. In this regard, IDC prepares, implements and coordinates various national and international research projects, partly funded under the research framework programme of the European Commission.
IDC consists of several working groups with different thematic focuses such as energy, synthetic biology, food security and institutional evolution. One of the main goals of IDC is to increase public awareness of new scientific developments and its societal ramifications, to stimulate debate and exchange of ideas and perspectives.
Within this approach, IDC organises public information events on issues of global concern.
Markus Schmidt and his team carried out several activities in the field of synthetic biology, such as SYNBIOSAFE, COSY, TARPOL and Biosafety China. Camillo Meinhart and Markus Schmidt produced the first documentary film on synthetic biology.
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Dialog<>Gentechnik (dgt)
Our function is to be an interface between science and the public.
We foster and support dialogue and facilitate access to balanced information on gene technology and related topics.
A network of experts in different fields supports us in providing competent and reliable scientific information. Dgt provides comprehensible, competent and balanced information, answer requests for information on special scientific topics, raise the awareness of the importance of science communication, support pupils and teachers with ideas and materials to allow a varied curriculum.
Dgt is an independent non-profit-society and committed to scientific principles.
Dgt also participates in the project COSY.
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Our project team is supported by an interdisciplinary Advisory Board:
Oron Catts: Artist and researcher at the forefront of the emerging field of bio-art. His
work addresses the ethical and social implications of the rapidly expanding field of genetic
engineering. He is the founder of the Tissue Culture and Art Project and the Art & Science collaborative lab SymbioticA at the Univ.
of Western Australia.
Jens Hauser: Research associate at the Institute for Media Studies at Ruhr University Bochum where he teaches intermediality and media arts. As a curator, Hauser has organized numerous interdisciplinary conferences in the field of art, science and philosophy, as well as exhibitions such as L'Art Biotech (Nantes, 2003), Still, Living (Perth, 2007); and sk-interfaces (Liverpool, 2008/Luxembourg, 2009), and the Article Biennale (Stavanger, 2008).
Philippe Marliere: Scientist and bio-entrepreneur based in Paris (Genoscope, Isthmus, past Institute Pasteur fellow). Main research activities: directed evolution of metabolic and coding pathways, genetic constructions, synthetic ecosystems, chemically modified organisms.
Vitor Martins dos Santos: Professor of Systems and Synthetic Biology at the Wageningen University. Coordinator and partner in several EU funded research projects on synthetic biology, e.g. Probactys, Emergence, Tarpol.
Frans Meulenberg: Department of Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine, University
Medical Center Rotterdam, coordinated the Dutch research project „Science, Fiction, and
Science-Fiction“ (2002-2005) and "Telling Tales about Genomics" investigating the role of fiction in public debates on medical
ethical issues and in the medical education.
Heinz Oberhummer: Professor of Physics at the Technical University of Vienna, coordinator of the science fiction and eduction prject "CISCI: Cinema and Science", award-winning popular science book author, author and actor in the science cabaret "sciencebusters"
Jordi Vallverdú: teaches Philosophy and History of Science and Computing at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. Bioethics Expert of the EC Biosociety Research and main
researcher of SETE (Synthetic Emotions in Technological Environments).
Huib de Vriend: Researcher at Rathenau Institute and LIS Consult, the Netherlands, is the author of a Technology Assessment position paper on synthetic biology, and organized several public communication events in the Netherlands on synthetic biology.
