SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 1996
6:00 - 9:00 p.m. Reception
Sponsored by Biotreatment News
MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1996
8:00 a.m. Registration and Poster Set-Up
Opening Plenary Session
9:00 a.m. Opening Comments from Conference Organizers
Mr. Hans Yu, Agriculture andAgri-Food Canada
Dr. Scott Angle, University of Maryland
Dr. Morrie Levin, Maryland Biotechnology Institute
Dr. Terry McIntyre, Environment Canada
9:20 a.m. Introduction and Charge to Meeting
Mr. Ray Klicius, Environment Canada
Mr. Glenn Hansen, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Dr. Phil Sayre, United States Environmental Protection Agency
Dr. Ed Kaleikau, United States Department of Agriculture
10:00 a.m. "Overview of Risk Assessment Dimensions/R&D Activities for
Recombinant Microoorganisms" Dr. Eric Triplett, Department of
Agronomy, University of Wisconsin at Madison
10:30 a.m. Coffee And Poster Session
11:00 a.m. "Overview of Risk Assessment Dimensions/R&D Activities for
Transgenic Plants" Dr. Patrick Rudelsheim, Plant Genetics Systems,
Gent Belgium
11:30 a.m. "Overview of Risk Assessment Dimensions/R&D Activities for
Transgenic Animals" Dr. Caird Rexroad, Gene Evaluation and
Mapping Laboratory, USDA
12:00 p.m. Lunch - "Points to Consider in Communication of Biotechnology,
An Overview" Dr. Bill Leiss, Center of Environmental Policy, Queens
University
Session 1 - Environmental Effects
Session Chair: Todd Hann, Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment
1:00 p.m. "Approaches to Assess the Effects of Transgenic Alfalfa and
Rhizobial Antibiotic Production Diversity on Soil Microbial
Diversity" EW Triplett
1:20 p.m. "Risk of Gene Flow from sorghum to Johnson Grass" A Paterson and
B Chandler
1:40 p.m. "Predicting the Spread of Insect Resistance: A Tool to Evaluate
Ecological Risk" J Bergelson and J Winterer
2:00 p.m. "Environmental Fate and Risk Assessment of a Novel Forest Weed
Biocontrol Agent" S Shamoun and W Hintzl
2:20 p.m. "Acute Toxicy and Aqueous Solubility of Some Condensed
Thiopenes and Their Microbial Metabolites" P Fedorak
2:40 p.m. "Does Expression of a Defence Transgene Alter Non-Target
Rhizosphere Microflora" R Goodman, L Jacobson, S Stewart, J
Handelsman and S Bintrim
3:00 p.m. Coffee And Poster Session
Session 2 - Bioremediation
Session Chair: Dr. Shahamat, University of Maryland
3:20 p.m. "Distribution of Chlorobenzoate Genotypes at the High Park
Industrial Landfill Site" MC Peel and RC Wyndham
3:40 p.m. "IS1071 as an Indicator of Bacterial Adaption to Inorganic and
Organic Pollutants in Freshwater Environments" RC Wyndham, CH
Nakatsu and MC Peel
4:00 p.m. "Catabolic Pathway Information and It's Reference to Bioremediation
Risk Assessment Schemes" P Lau
4:20 p.m. "Monitoring Potential Bioremediation Agents Using Reporter Gene
Marked Indigenous Bacterial Models" C Greer, J Godbout, A Mihoc,
C Masson and M Cattaneo
4:40 p.m. "Biotechnology Potential of Heavy Water and Deuterated
Compounds" D Kushner and TG Dunatall
TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1996
8:00 a.m. Coffee and Poster Session
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Session 3A - Field / Risk Assessment Microorganisms
Session Chair: Dr. Primal Silva, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
8:30 a.m. "Risk Assessment of an Intergeneric Microorganism Involved in
Bioremediation" P Sayre
8:50 a.m. "Environmental Assessment of Genetically Engineered Insect Viruses
in Canadian Forestry" K Barber, WJ Kaupp, DP Kreutzweiser, LS
England, AS Pang, SR Palli and SB Holmes
9:10 a.m. "A Comprehensive Approach to Microbial Identification" M Segal
9:30 a.m. "Persistance of Recombinant DNA in Soil" LS England, L Hung, J
Trevors and SB Holmes
9:50 a.m. "An Experimental Evaluation of Racoons as a Reservoir for
Transmission of Genetically Engineered Pseudorabies Virus Vaccine
and Wild Type Vaccine Recombinants" RM Weigel, EC Hahn and G
Scherba
10:10 a.m. Coffee And Poster Session
10:30 a.m. Risk Assesment of a Vaceinia Virus Double Recombinant Vaccine for
Rinderpest" T Yilma, L Jones, H Wamwayi, F Yoseph and M Gebre-
Yesus
10:50 a.m. "Risk Assessment of Transcapsidation and Transmission of Tobacco
Mosaic Virus by Cucumber Mosaic Virus Coat Protein" P Palukaitis
and L Zhang
11:10 a.m. "Spread of Barley Yellow Dwarf Viruses in Wild Grass Populations:
Implications for Risk Assessment" AG Power
11:30 a.m. "In situ Intrinsic Remediation: Principles, Risk Assessment and the
Regulators" M Francis
Session 3B - Gene Transfer/Plants
Session Chair: Dr. Subhash Gupta, United States Department of Agriculture
8:30 a.m. "Gene Transfer from Genetically Engineered Canola (Brassica napus
L)" J Brown
8:50 a.m. "Gene Flow from Cultivated to Wild Strawberry (Fragaria spp.)"
TP Spira, K Sossey-Alaoui, S Rajapakse, MB Miller, AG Abbott and
DW Tonkyn
9:10 a.m. "Recombination Between Viral RNA and Transgenic Plant
Transcripts" R Allison
9:30 a.m. "Potential Gene Flow Between Cultivated Transgenic Potato and Its
Wild Tuber Bearing Relatives: An Analysis of Cross-ability" S
Jackson and R Hanneman, Jr
9:50 a.m. Coffee And Poster Session
10:10 a.m. "Assessing the Effectiveness of Border Areas in Confining the Spread
of Transgenic Brassica napus Pollen" P McVetty and B Staniland
Session 3C - Gene Stability/Plants
Session Chair: Dr. Subhash Gupta, United States Department of Agriculture
10:30 a.m. "Population Dynamics of Canola Harbouring an Insecticidal
Transgene: The First Generation" CN Stewart, Jr., JN All, S
Ramachandran and PL Raymer
10:50 a.m. "Fitness of F1 Wild Crop Progeny in Sunflower (Helianthus annus)
and Implications for Long Term Introgression" A Snow, P Moran-
Palma and L Rieseberg
Session 3D - Field/Risk Assessment/Plants
Session Chair: Dr. Subhash Gupta, United States Department of Agriculture
11:10a.m. "Research on Risk Assessment and Development of Policy on Release
of Genetically Modified Plants" F Amijee
11:30 a.m. "Risk Assessment for the Release of Transgenic Trees: Should It Be
Different Than That With Crop Plants" P Charest, A Seguin and A
Plourde
12:00 p.m Lunch - "An ENGO's Perspective on the Biotechnology Environment
Risk Assessment Debate" Dr. Mark Winfield, Canadian Institute of
Environmental Law and Policy (CIELP)
Session 4 - Gene Transfer and Stability/Microorganisms
Session Chair: Dr. Dan Jones, United States Department of Agriculture
1:00 p.m "Recombination Between Cauliflower Mosaic Virus and Transgenic
Plants Under Conditions of Strong and Weak Selection Pressure" J
Schoelz, WM Wintermantel and L Kirly
1:20 p.m. "Tn916 Mediated Genetic Exchange in Soil" R Andrews, BJ Haack
and T Loynachan
1:40 p.m. "Barley Yellow Dwarf Viruses Resistance, Replication,
Recombination and Risks" WA Miller, G Loev, BR Lohan and R
Beckett
2:00 p.m. "Recombination Between a Transgenically Expressed Movement
Protein Transcript and Red Clover Necrotic Mosaic Virus RNA-1" Z
Xiong, Z Weng, FW White, L Calvert and SA Lommel
2:20 p.m. "Sequence Stability of a Clonal Viral Population After a Long Term
Passaging in Divergent Plant Hosts" CM Kearney, M Thomson, KE
Rolland and WO Dawson
2:40 p.m. Coffee And Poster Session
Session 5 - Risk Assessment/Microorganisms
Session Chair: Dr. Phil Sayre, United States Environmental Protection Agency
3:00 p.m. "Risk Assessment Protocols for Microbes" D Malloch and I Ahmad
3:20 p.m. "Environmental Risk Assessment of Microbial Pesticide Control
Products in Canada" T Kuchnicki and B Belliveau
3:40 p.m "Canadian Environmental Protection Act: New substances
Notification Regulations for Biotechnology Products - An Update" J
Louter
4:00 p.m. "The Risk of Risking Sustainable Ecological Restoration" M Kalin
6:00 p.m. Ottawa River Boat Dinner & Cruise
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1996
Session 6 - Monitoring
Session Chair: Dr. Stuart Bailey, Ontario Ministry of Energy and Environment
8:30 a.m. "Quantitative Detection of Pentachlorophenol Degrading
Pseudomonas spp UG30 in Soil by a Most Probable Number/PCR
Protocol" KT Leung and J Trevors
8:50 a.m. "Identification of Plant Viral Synergism Gene" V Vance
9:10 a.m. "Use of Strain Specific Monoclonal Antibodies to Quantify Within
Field Temporal and Spatial Spread of Soybean Mosaic Virus in
Soybean" F Nutter, PM Schultz, and JH Hill
9:30 a.m. "Capability of Recombinant Insect Viruses for Environmental
Persistence and Transport" J Fuxa and A Richter
9:50 a.m. "Validation of Microcosm Protocol for Predicting Persistence of
Microorganisms in Soil" JS Angle, M Levin, J Gagliardi, CP
Chanway, J Germida, B Watson, C Wyndham, T McIntyre and H Yu
10:10 a.m. Coffee And Poster Session
Session 7 - Fish
Session Chair: Mr. Tom Edge, Environment Canada
10:30 a.m. "Triploids for Biological Containment: The Risk of Heteroploid
Mosaics" S Allen, Jr and X Guo
10:50 a.m. "Risk Assessment in Aquaculture Development of Models Using
Results Obtained From Medaka Transformed with Growth
Hormones" B Muir, R Howard, R Martens and C Bidwell
11:10 a.m. "Environmental Risks in Using GH Transgenic Atlantic Salmon for
Commercial Production in Canada" G Fletcher, C Hew, A Sutterlin
and T Benfey
11:30 a.m. Free Time For Participants, Lunch On Own
Plenary Session - Panel Discussion
Session Facilitator: Mr. Dennis Lewycky, Community Consultants Group
1:00 p.m. "Risk Assessment at the Crossroads - Where Has Environmental Risk
Assessment Research and Development in Biotechnology Taken Us
and the Path Forward"
- Dr. John Jaworski (Industry Canada)
- Dr. Jack Trevors (University of Guelph)
- Dr. Ramon Seidler (US Environmental Protection Agency
- Mr. Simon Barber (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)
- Dr. Bill Schneider (US Environmental Protection Agency)
- Dr. Mark Winfield (CIELAP)
3:00 p.m. Closing Comments
POSTERS
"Environmental Risk Assessment of Organisms Under CEPA/NSN Regulations of Environment Canada" J Beardall
"Horseradish Peroxidase Labelled Probes and Enhanced Chemiluminescence to Detect Baculoviruses" P Ebling and N Payne
"Mycoherbicide for Control of Forest Weeds" R Prasad
"Biosafety Guidance for Conducting Experimental Field Studies with Microorganisms" T Edge, M Levin, JS Angle and M Gealt
"Soil Treatability Protocols for Microorganisms Involved in Bioremediation"
K Hosler
"Economics of the Biotechnology Industry in Canada" J Heller
"Genetic Engineering of Rumen Bacteria" P Riddles
"Tracking Transgenic Plants Using GFP" SM Leffel, SA Mabon and CN Stewart, Jr
"Diversity of Napthalene Degradative Plasmids in Natural Populations Of Pseudomonas And Relevance To Biotechnology Risk Assessment" A Boronin
"Accumulation of Heavy Metals by a Bacterium Isolated from Electroplating Effluent" F Mlekzadeh, A Farzmand, H Ghafourian, M Shahamat, M Levin, C Grim and RR Colwell