WEEK 3 -- Feb. 3

Discussion: Insights from annotated bibliography 1 (30 min.)

Lecture: Environmental biosafety - potential hazards (60 min.)
Movement of transgenes (gene flow, horizontal gene transfer)
Whole transgenic organism (altered invasiveness, ecological role)
Non-target organisms exposure
Target organism resistance evolution
Disease vectors

Discussion: Issues raised by lecture and readings (45 min.)

Group Activity: Planning for annotated bibliography 2. (30 min.)

Readings due Week 4:
All: Portions of Resilience and Sustainable Development. Series on Science for Sustainable Development, No. 3, International Council for Science, pp.7-10, 16-22. http://www.icsu.org

Animal Group: Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology 2003. Future Fish, pp. 13-28;
For detail, see: Kapuscinski (unpubl.) Genetically modified fish in the U.S., pp.10-29.

Plant Group: Environmental Effects of Transgenic Plants, Chapter 1, pp. 21-36
Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants, 73-103.

Due Week 5: Annotated Bibliography 2 on environmental biosafety science regarding the group case-such as questions about environmental effects of large-scale deployment in agriculture or aquaculture and scientific basis for such questions; research done on questions about environmental effects; scientific knowledge and methods in evolution, ecology, environmental risk assessment and management that could be applied to questions.