VolkswagenStiftung (Volkswagen Foundation) and the Max Planck Society sponsored conference on DURC
An open conference, no registration fee
Hannover, Germany
http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/dualuseresearch
November 19-21
BCPS London Royal Society
For details and program
http://biochemsec2030.org/2014/06/26/conference-on-bio-chem-st-and-security-royal-society-19-21st-november-2014/
November 20
Policy Lates: Dodging a biological bullet – what can we learn from the US and Europe about Biosecurity?
UK Society for Biology
Charles Darwin House, 12 Roger Street, London
November 19
European Academies Scientific Advisory Committee GOF working group in Frankfort airport.
Second meeting January 23, Brussels
November 5-7
European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Diseases Epidemiology (ESCAIDE) meeting organized by the ECDC in Stockholm
Plenary session devoted to GOF on November 6
http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/ESCAIDE/programme/Pages/overview.aspx
Results of an electronic questionnaire that took place at the end of the plenary session on GOF research
October 22
New NSABB committee meeting, Washington DC
http://osp.od.nih.gov/office-biotechnology-activities/event/2014-10-22-121500-2014-10-22-200000/nsabb-meeting
June 25
KNAW debate on GOF url
For a report click here. It will soon be up on the KNAW website.
2013-2011
There were other meetings in the US in this period.
To be updated.
December 12, 2013
Royal Society meeting, London
A small closed discussion on how to advance debate on the GOF.
No publically available summary.
September 5-9, 2013
International Society for Influenza and other Respiratory Virus Diseases (ISIRV),
Cape Town.
Marc Lipsitch came in on video.
July 3, 2013
The risk of misuse in the biosciences
University of Freiburg, Germany
Das Missbrauchrisko in den Biowissenschaften
Veranstalter: Prof. Dr. Silja Vöneky und Constantin Teetzmann, Institut für Öffentliches Recht, Abteilung 2 (Völkerrecht und Rechtsvergleichung), und Kompetenznetzwerk für das Recht der zivilen Sicherheit (KORSE), Universität Freiburg
February 6-8, 2013
Freedom in biological research: How to consider accidental or intentional risks for populations
Fondation Mérieux Conference center; Les Pensières, Veyrier-du-Lac, France
April 3-4, 2012
Royal Society meeting on H5N1 research: biosafety, biosecurity and bioethics
It was organized by The Foundation for Vaccine Research, The Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Sponsored by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Fondation Mérieux, the American Society for Microbiology, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Institut Pasteur, and the Society for General Microbiology.
Chairpersons Sir John Skehel FRS and Simon Wain-Hobson.
This meeting was available on the web for 2 years following the conference and can still be viewed at
http://royalsociety.org/events/2012/viruses/
For more than two years it remained the only open meeting on the subject that has been convened. Journalists were present.
February 16-17, 2012
WHO meeting Geneva.
This was an invitation only meeting funded in large part by the US NIAID. For a report click here.
September 12, 2011
European Scientific Working group on Influenza (ESWI) in Malta.
This is the meeting where Ron Fouchier started off the three year debate or controversy on GOF. It was not recorded or webcast. However, some idea of what transpired can be found at
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/12/30/what-really-happened-in-malta-this-september-when-contagious-bird-flu-was-first-announced/
