SBPWG:Meetings/April 6 2011

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Meeting Notes: April 6th 2011

First Meeting UCSF Mission Bay 6-8pm

Attendees

-Megan Palmer (Stanford)
-Joseph Jackson (BioCurious)
-Danielle Tullman-Ercek (Berkeley)
-Reid Williams (UCSF)
-Ryan Ritterson (UCSF)
-Hanson Lee (Berkeley)
-Marlee Tichenor (Berkeley)
-Josh Wolf (Stanford)
-Mike Fisher (Berkeley)
-Will Carey (IDEO)
-Pablo Schyfter (Stanford)
-Megan Palmer (Stanford)
-Erik Lontok (UCSF)
-Megan Palmer (Stanford)
-Felix Moser (UCSF)
-Robin Prince (UCSF)
-Eli Groban (LS9)

Notes

Megan Palmer's Intro Slides from the Meeting

Brainstorming: What should we do?

• Educate ourselves
• Educate others
• Communications training
• Review new models for public engagement and education (gaming etc)
• Work through case studies in synthetic biology practices and outline lessons learned
• Develop a list of top challenging/open questions in synthetic biology
• Invite in people to give us summaries of the 'state of practices'

 * current regulation
 * the ERC model for developing SB - what is it and why is it appropriate        
 * ownership and sharing 
 * bioethics
 * history of threatened technologies (examples?) 

Next meeting

Breaking down practices by topical area v1 Volunteers from the group pick a topic of interest to brainstorm answers to the following questions

• what's new?
• what's not?
• what's next?
• why does it matter?

Topical areas:

• ownership and innovation (ryan, joseph)
• ethics (marlee)
• communications/education/outreach (danielle) (also hanson?)
• safety (robin)
• security (mike)
• design/philosophy (reid)
• applications (megan)

Point was made that first should first be asking: why do synthetic biology?