[CODATA-international] Fwd: Register for Forum: "Access to Genetic Resources after the Nagoya Protocol"

[Simon CODATA]

Members of the CODATA community in the US may be interested in the event announced below at Duke University 'Access to Genetic Resources after the Nagoya Protocol’ which marks the launch of the book Governing Digitally Integrated Genetic Resources, Data, and Literature - Global Intellectual Property Strategies for a Redesigned Microbial Research Commons (Cambridge University Press, 2016), eds. Reichmann, Uhlir and Dedeurwaedere.
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> FORUM ANNOUNCEMENT: RSVP REQUIRED BY MAY 9TH
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> FORUM ANNOUNCEMENT
> Access to Genetic Resources after the Nagoya Protocol
> Duke University, in partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), invite you to attend a forum for the release of the book, Governing Digitally Integrated Genetic Resources, Data, and Literature - Global Intellectual Property Strategies for a Redesigned Microbial Research Commons (Cambridge University Press, 2016). The forum will explore how the Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity both constrains and facilitates access to plant and microbial materials and data for research and applications.
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> Two of the book's authors will summarize their principal findings, including on the regulatory restrictions for trans-border access to genetic resources, law and policy solutions for upstream microbial material and digital commons, and their proposed international governance structure for microbial research. The forum will then feature prepared comments by three distinguished speakers, and a moderated discussion with the audience. 
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> Speakers will include:
> Dr. Betsy Humphries, Acting Director of the National Library of Medicine, NIH
> Prof. Jerome H. Reichman, Duke University Law School
> Paul F. Uhlir, J.D., Scholar, National Academy of Sciences
> Dr. Scott Miller, Under Secretary for Collections and Interdisciplinary Science, Smithsonian Institution (Invited)
> Prof. Jorge L. Contreras, University of Utah Law School
> Dr. Shakeel Bhatti, Director, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization
> Dr. Philip Bourne, Assistant Director for Data Science, NIH
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> When:
> Thursday May 12, 2016 from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT
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> Where:
> National Institutes of Health
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> Lindberg Conference Room, 2nd floor
> Bethesda, MD 20894
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> This invitation is transferable to another person, but RSVPs are required by May 9th.
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> BACKGROUND
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> This forum is based on the book by JEROME H. REICHMAN, PAUL F. UHLIR, AND TOM DEDEURWAERDERE. We are grateful for the generous support from the NIH through Grant # P50 HG003391.
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> The free exchange of microbial genetic information is an established public good, facilitating research on medicines, agriculture, and climate change. However, over the past quarter-century, access to genetic resources has been hindered by intellectual property claims from developed countries under the World Trade Organization's TRIPS Agreement (1994) and by claims of sovereign rights from developing countries under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) (1992). 
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> In this volume, the authors examine the scientific community's responses to these obstacles and advise policymakers on how to harness provisions of the Nagoya Protocol (2010) that allow multilateral measures to support research. By pooling microbial materials, data, and literature in a carefully designed transnational e-infrastructure, the scientific community can facilitate access to essential research assets while simultaneously reinforcing the open access movement. The original empirical surveys of responses to the CBD included here provide a valuable addition to the literature on governing scientific knowledge commons. 
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