27 September: Public lecture “Genetically  modified products”

Should we be afraid of GMO? Is everything that we hear about it or read on the Internet true?
And where is the border line between traditional selection methods and genetic engineering?
Dr. Joachim Messing, Professor of Molecular Biology, will help clarify questions that alarm many people.

Nongovernmental organizations, media, and the Internet generously present information about genetic modification of agricultural crops and sharply differentiate between traditional and genetic engineering methods of improving their characteristics. Joachim Messing believes that such information is often taken out of context and is flawed from the scientific standpoint.

Joachim Messing is positively sure that now is the time for everybody to understand that humanity will not be able to survive without revolutionary changes in agriculture. Only such changes will allow solving the wide range of global problems caused by population growth, climate change, scarce water and land resources, rising fuel prices, and increased sensitivity to allergens.

Joachim Messing is a Professor of Molecular Biology and the fourth Director of the Waksman Institute of Microbiology.
He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a USDA Secretary’s Honor Award laureate (US Rice Genome), and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Germany).
Joachim Messing is a member of the Expert Council of the young biologist competition of the Dynasty Foundation.

The lecture begins
6 pm
27 September 2012

Location
Polytechnical Museum Lecture Hall, Small Auditorium
Moscow, 3/4 Novaya Ploshchad, Entrance 9
Map

Free admission
The lecture will be held in English with simultaneous translation.
Identification document is required for simultaneous translation equipment
(passport, student card)

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