<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel Grushkin</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dgrushkin@gmail.com">dgrushkin@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 3:45 PM<br>Subject: [DIYBio-NYC] Science Magazine: Genspace engaging the Authorities<br>To: <a href="mailto:diybio-nyc@googlegroups.com">diybio-nyc@googlegroups.com</a>, <a href="mailto:diybio@googlegroups.com">diybio@googlegroups.com</a><br>
<br><br>
<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
<p>During the fall a number of us headed down to Washington, DC to
speak with various government agencies and departments at <a href="http://www.aaas.org/" target="_blank">The American Association for the
Advancement of Science</a>, the country’s largest science
society.</p>
<p>That dialogue is starting to bear fruit. That’s Genspace's very
own Dr. Ellen Jorgensen and Ed You of the FBI’s WMD Directorate
featured together in the news photo.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"An informal meeting this fall brought three of them together
with You and others from the FBI, along with government and AAAS
officials. The DIY speakers described how a love of science and
commitment to public engagement has led them to hold exhibits at
street fairs and form community labs.</p>
<p>Ellen Jorgensen, an assistant professor in pathology
at New York Medical College and president of the Genspace
community lab in New York City, acknowledged that cooperation
with agents does not come easily for many in the DIY movement.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>But, she said, “I think that the meetings we have had were very
useful in terms of fostering some trust between the FBI and the
DIY biocommunity… To kill a movement that embodies a reawakened
public enthusiasm about science due to concerns about
biosecurity would be a terrible shame.”</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Check out the article: “<a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6012/1766.full" target="_blank">Science,
Law Enforcement Build Biotech Bridges</a>.”</p>
</div>
<p></p>
-- <br><font color="#888888">
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "diybio nyc" group.<br>
To post to this group, send email to <a href="mailto:diybio-nyc@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">diybio-nyc@googlegroups.com</a>.<br>
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <a href="mailto:diybio-nyc%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">diybio-nyc+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a>.<br>
For more options, visit this group at <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/diybio-nyc?hl=en" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/diybio-nyc?hl=en</a>.<br>
</font></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>- Bryan<br><a href="http://heybryan.org/">http://heybryan.org/</a><br>1 512 203 0507<br>