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4 Concluding Thoughts
Pages 49-52

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... Tabashnik showed snapshots he had taken during the course of the workshop and encouraged participants to foster their new acquaintances into friendships and research collaborations, a theme echoed by Kapuscinski. She emphasized the long-term benefits of the collegial and collaborative atmosphere of the workshop, as scientists from different fields worked together in the breakout groups to develop research proposals.
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From page 50...
... Many participants identified large-scale, organized collaborative projects that support different research objectives, including those on GEOs, as perhaps the only way to design and fund the scale of analysis needed. Studies on a large ecological scale can take advantage of emerging remote sensing technologies that improve traditional methods of observation.
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From page 51...
... Large Facilities and Containment  For some research, such as studies of aquatic organisms, the use of large, contained facilities that simulate natural habitats and ecosystems may be the best way to answer critical questions about the range of possible effects of GEOs. For all organisms, improving methods of biological containment is an area of research that could eventually enable field releases if there were sufficient confidence that containment (no reproduction or gene flow)
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From page 52...
... Anne Kapuscinksi closed the meeting by saying that in the next five years, she hoped that new projects -- be they field studies, mapping, or stronger networks of existing facilities -- will have already begun, through allocation of new resources, better leveraging of existing resources, and cooperation on institutional and investigator levels. Ten or twenty years from now, many of the analyses suggested in the workshop may have been completed, so that society has a fuller understanding of the risks of genetically engineered organisms (GEOs)
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  • study wildlife
  • appropriate comparator

  • kapuscinksi closed
  • study design
  • evaluating geos
  • identifying indicator
  • collaborative projects

  • berg organized
  • analyses suggested
  • sufficient confidence
  • discussion session
  • paul berg

  • polarization increased
  • indicator species
  • biotechnology expertise
  • investigator levels
  • environmental changes

  • biological containment
  • answering questions
  • fuller understanding
  • ellstrand emphasized
  • sensing technologies


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