2025 Annual Workshop for Capabilities 2 and 3, hosted by the Ethics node of Macquarie

This one-day workshop showcases current work in Industrial Translation (Capability 2) and Social Dimensions (Capability 3) of the CoESB. The workshop focuses on the topics of risk, climate change and synthetic biology, transitions and the bioeconomy.

Lunch will be provided.

Program

9.30AM: Registration

9.45AM: Welcome and opening remarks by Prof Sakkie Pretorius

Session 1: Setting the scene Chair: Annie Sandrussi

10:00 – 10:30AM: Matthew Petersen, Wendy Rogers, Mianna Lotz. Taking Risk Seriously: A Comprehensive Approach to Ethical Risk Analysis in Synthetic Biology

10:30 – 11:00AM: Josh Wodak. The Race Between Negative Emission Technologies and Runaway Climate Change: Gambling on a Climate Change Technofix

11:00 – 11:30AM: Goncagul Baris. The Role of Law in Standardisation of Synthetic Biology

11:30 – 12:00PM: Madeline Smith, Jerome Ramirez and Ian O’Hara. Catalysing Australia’s Bioeconomy with Synthetic Biology

LUNCH 12:00 -1:00PM

Session 2: Putting synbio into practice Chair: Martie-Louise Verreynne

1:00 – 1:30PM: Andrew McGregor, Jerome Ramirez, Milena Bojovic, Jon Symons. Recalibrating novel protein imaginaries: when transformative visions meet material realities

1:30 – 2:00PM: Xueting Jiang, Aditi Mankad and Walter Okelo. Flying Green: Emissions Decomposition of Australia’s Bio-based Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) Pathways with Global LCA Perspectives

2:00 – 2:30PM: Nelida Gomez Quintero. Future Making or Future Repairing: The Synthetic Biology Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

AFTERNOON TEA 2:30 – 3:00PM

Session 3: Engaging with publics Chair: Chris Lean

3:00 – 3:30PM: Dan Santos. Conceptualising publics in bio-economy transitions: Towards thinking about and with communities

3:30 – 4:00PM: Henry Dixson. Future Remade: Public Views on Engineering Climate

4.00 – 4.30PM: Closing remarks