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The EC-US Taskforce on
Biotechnology Research
Judith B. St. John, US Co-Chair
EC-US Task Force on Biotechnology Research20th Anniversary WorkshopBarcelona, SpainJune 2, 2010
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Origin of the EC-US Task Force on Biotechnology Research
• The EC-US Task Force on Biotechnology Research was established in June 1990 by the European Commission and the White House Office of Science and Technology
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Who We Are
• Task Force members are European Commission and US Government science and technology administrators who meet annually to enhance communication across the Atlantic and to encourage collaborative research
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Working Together for Better Science
• The EC-US Task Force on Biotechnology Research seeks to anticipate the needs of tomorrow’s science, today. To achieve such a challenging goal requires effective transatlantic communication and collaboration.
• The Task Force aims “to promote information exchange and coordination between biotechnology research programmes funded by the European Commission and the United States government.”
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Working Groups
The EC-US Task Force sponsors a number of working groups (WG) on topics of mutual transatlantic interest:
•Environmental Biotechnology•Biobased Products and Biofuels•Plant Biotechnology•Marine Genomics•Farm Animal Genomics
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Working Group Activities:
• Meetings and Workshops• Short Courses• Short-Term Exchange
Fellowships• Coordinated Programs
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Renewable Resources
• Epobio: Realizing the economic potential of sustainable resources -bioproducts from non-food crops
• Involved 12 partners from the US and EU
• Supported by USDA and the EU 6th and 7th Framework Programmes
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Flagship Themes in BiobasedProducts and Biofuels
• Plant cell walls in relation to biorefining• Plant oils as industrial feedstocks• Biopolymers
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Defining Criteria for Flagship Themes
• User/consumer benefit• Scientific challenge• Economic benefits• Private sector involvement
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Outcomes
• Science to support policy in the areas of:– Biopolymers (EU-PEARLS)
– Plant cell walls (RENEWALL)
– Plant oils (ICON)
• Development of a core of research to meet future global challenges
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Training in Environmental Biotechnology
• Hundreds of early-career scientists trained since 1995 through: – Workshops on molecular and genomic
methods– Short courses on theoretical, laboratory and
field approaches– Short-term exchange fellowships
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Databases and Bioinformatics• Workshops on:
– September 1995: Neuroinformatics– September 1998: Database interoperability– September 1999: Plant and animal bioinformatics– May 2007: Infrastructure needs of systems
biology– September 2007: Cyberinfrastructure resources for
genome-enabled research on microbial life and the marine environment
– November 2009: Animal bioinformatics– December 2009: Plant bioinformatics
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Project Coordination
• Facilitation of coordinated projects– The SOL and EU-SOL Initiatives to improve
the quality of potatoes and tomatoes– SOL is supported by NSF and includes the
Solanaceous Genomes Network Database– EU-SOL is supported by the FP6 Programme
and involves 56 partners from 15 countries
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SOL and EU-SOL Partnerships
• Central database
• Resource Integration
• Public resources
• Education