SBPWG:Gaps/Gaps Draft v3

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Below is the revised gap list presented for discussion at the Synthetic Biology Practices Working Group meeting July 27th 2011.

Questions for Discussion

• What is a gap list good for? Who should contribute? Who should read? In what form should a gap list exist/adapt?
• How do you mind/close a gap? How do we organize amongst ourselves and with others to mind/close each gap? What information/tools/resources do we need to continue exploring and addressing these gaps?
• Are we missing/misrepresenting gaps?

Opportunity for Engagement

Gap Minding Workshop: Would you be willing to take the lead one or more of these gaps to outline what a workshop attempting to mind/close the gap might look like? Identify key people, resources, questions, formats, activities etc?

• Links to some resources can be found in notes from previous meetings.

Gap Seed List v3

(draft form; not prioritized)

A. A strategy for biosecurity in a world in which we (and others) sustain incremental improvement in our capacity to engineer biology

B. Building trust regarding biosecurity across secrecy gaps due private or classified work

C. Cultivating wisdom and leadership in biosafety within the next generation of practitioners

D. Transcending a cultural and political framing wherein synthetic biology will simultaneously destroy and save the world

E. Teaching and learning from broad audiences about being a citizen w/r/t synthetic biology

F. Avoiding regurgitation of other's concerns without critical thinking

G. Sustaining and improving integration of practices throughout a diverse synthetic biology research community

H. Sustaining an investment in foundational tools development that makes biology easier to engineer

I. Understanding and acting on how to best structure and balance relationships between common and private access/ownership of information/technologies so as to best advance the future of biotechnology

J. Adapting and coordinating governance/regulation across diversity of newly emerging applications enabled by the tools of synthetic biology to best promote continued innovation while minimizing risk