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SUMMARY:Brown Bag Series: Agrifood Biosensors
DESCRIPTION:
 Discussants: Lawrence Busch, Monica List, John 
 Stone, Paul Thompson, Kyle Whyte -\n
 UNDERSTANDING 
 THE SOCIAL & ETHICAL DIMENSIONS OF 
 NANO-BIOSENSORS IN ANIMAL AGRICULTURE & WELFARE: 
 A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY DIALOGUE.\n
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 A multi-disciplinary 
 team of researchers from MSUs 
 Center for the Study of Standards in Society 
 (CS3) has received a National Science Foundation 
 (NSF) grant to convene a planning workshop 
 on the social and ethical dimensions of 
 nano-biosensors in animal agriculture and welfare. 
  Workshop outcomes will provide the foundation 
 for a larger follow-up grant proposal 
 to NSF to create a basic understanding of the 
 supply chain for nano-biosensors in animal 
 agricultural, and to anticipate their potential 
 social / ethical dimensions so as to socially 
 inform nano-biosensor technologies as they 
 mature.  The primary research activities emerging 
 from these efforts will include broader 
 stakeholder workshops involving a range of 
 actors who are potentially impacted by nano-biosensors 
 at different levels of the supply chain. 
  Understanding and anticipating these dimensions 
 will help to ensure that whatever applications 
 emerge are: (1)  morally acceptable 
 and desirable with regard to implementation, 
 information handling, and privacy; (2) fair 
 to vulnerable parties; and (3) worthy of public 
 trust.  This brown bag seminar convenes 
 the multi-disciplinary project team in an open 
 round table discussion of major issues to be 
 covered in a project white paper to inform 
 future substantive directions and methodological 
 approaches associated with this project. 
 Discussants will explore potentially contrasting 
 public perceptions of risk associated with 
 similar applications of nano-biosensors in 
 human medicine and public health, with an eye 
 toward developing a mutually informative framework 
 for addressing risk narratives surrounding 
 nano-biosensor applications in both animal 
 agriculture and human health sectors.\n
 The 
 university community and general public are 
 encouraged to attend this event to hear about 
 this and future project related activities. 
 \n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: Amy Rusnell\n
 Contact phone: 517-432-1230\n
 Contact email: rusnell@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://cs3.msu.edu/events\n
LOCATION:Olds Hall, Room 109
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