ISBR 2025: Relevant topics of ISBR Symposium
| Science communication | Advancing social license, public perception, science communication and a science-based understanding of bio-innovation. |
| Capacity building | Opportunities, challenges and advancements in global capacity building and knowledge-building for emerging technologies and bio-innovation. |
| Sustainability and food security | Leveraging bio-innovation for improved climate, sustainability, and food security. Understanding the socio-economic considerations of emerging technologies. |
| Risk Analysis | Risk analysis, risk assessment, risk communication, and risk management for bio-innovation. Examples include hazard assessment, exposure assessment, problem formulation, data transportability, etc. |
| Global regulations, policy, and governance | Exploring the global landscape of regulations, policy, and governance of bio-innovation. |
| Genetically modified (GM) crops | Scientific advancements, challenges, and regulatory considerations related to genetically modified crops. Examples include food, feed, and environmental safety assessment, integrated pest management, new-product offerings, etc. |
| Genome editing in plants: | Scientific advancements, challenges, risk assessment, and regulatory considerations related to genome editing in plants, including Plant Breeding Innovation (PBI), New Breeding Techniques (NBTs), New genomic techniques (NGTs), etc. |
| Gene Drives | Scientific advancements, challenges, risk assessment, and regulatory considerations related to gene drives and super- mendelian inheritance. |
| Animal Biotechnology | Scientific advancements, challenges, risk assessment, and regulatory considerations related to animal biotechnology, including gene edited animals, genetically modified animals, etc. |
| Agricultural biologicals | Scientific advancements, challenges, risk assessment, and regulatory considerations for agricultural biologicals, including> genetically modified microbes, gene edited microbes, as well as other microbial, biochemical, semiochemical, and biological-based solutions. |
| Other Bio-innovation | Other bio-innovation topics highlighting scientific advancements, risk assessment, or regulatory considerations. Examples include industrial biotechnology, synthetic biology, genetics-based health biotechnology, the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in sustainable bio-innovation, etc. |
Important Dates
October/November, 2027
ISBR2027 - Bali, Indonesia
International Society for Biosafety Research