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Volume 9 Journal of Biotechnology & Biomaterials
ISSN: 2155-952X Biotechnology 2019
Enzymology 2019
February 28-March 02, 2019
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February 28-March 02, 2019 | Berlin, Germany
5th International Conference on
Enzymology and Protein Chemistry
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22nd Global Congress on Biotechnology
Klaus Ammann, J Biotechnol Biomater 2019, Volume 9
DOI: 10.4172/2155-952X-C2-114
Regulatory hurdles of gene editing, how to overcome them
Gene editing is a new plant breeding method of precise elegance. It will be a unique chance to create new crops, adapted to
climate change, be more productive and building new sustainable resistance against the steadily growing and adapting crop
pests. It will also help to shift modern agriculture to a more ecological production, in short: it is the future of modern agriculture.
Opposition against the new breeding methods is often based on fundamentalist arguments which are not really built on science.
Anti-GM literature is often full of questionable statistics and fake arguments. This is a great pity, since stigmatization of the new gene
editing is unfortunately built on the easy going psychology of fear of fake risks, often welcomed by a society in rich countries, where
the population desperately longs for new risk fights in a clearly growing safety of personal life. It would be much better to develop a
constructive attitude, which could manifest in organo-transgenic agricultural strategies, where the best sides of organic farming and
modern breeding built on gene editing could be combined without the ideological and commercial hurdles.
Biography
Klaus Ammann, Emeritus Prof. Hon. from the Bern University, Switzerland. Prof. Emeritus Hon. Bern University Switzerland. Thesis: vegetation and glacier history, summa
cum laude in 1972 Bern University. Research topics: Biodiversity, Vegetation Ecology, Lichens and Mosses, Biomonitoring of Air Pollution, Plant Biotechnology: Biosafety,
Gene Flow and Ecology of Transgenic Crops. Guest lecturing in Delft, Netherlands, Istanbul, Turkey, research in Jamaica, at Duke University and Missouri Botanical
Garden. Member of the steering committee of Scientific activities: maintaining 650 endnote reference bibliographies on plant biotechnology and biodiversity,
over 320 publications under Klaus Ammann in journals, blogs, newspapers, books on biosafety research and ca. 210 slide presentations, many literature references with
full text links. Editor, Co-Editor in journals from Elsevier, Springer and Landes. Member of scientific committees in Switzerland and Europe on biodiversity and biosafety.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, external member of the European Academy.
Klaus Ammann
University of Bern, Switzerland