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Dear Participants,

We are now at the halfway stage of this FAO e-mail conference on "Impacts of genomics and other 'omics' for the crop, forestry, livestock, fishery and agro-industry sectors in developing countries" which runs from 4 to 24 March.

First, a very big thank you to each of the 21 people who have already posted a message to the conference.

Second, in this second half of the conference, we strongly urge those of you who have not already done so to share your experiences and insights regarding the two main conference questions, i.e. 

- What have been the impacts (positive and/or negative) so far of genomics and the other 'omics' for the crop, forestry, livestock, fishery and agro-industry sectors in developing countries?

- What are the impacts (positive and/or negative) of genomics and other 'omics' likely to be in the near future (e.g. the next five years) for the crop, forestry, livestock, fishery and agro-industry sectors in developing countries?

To do so, send your message to [log in to unmask] More details on the aspects of the two main questions that you might wish to discuss are provided below (from Section 4 of the conference background document)

All of the 26 messages posted so far are available at the searchable website: https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?A0=Biotech-Room3-L   
To see them sorted by date (latest on top), see https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind1303&L=Biotech-Room3-L&O=D&H=0&D=1&T=1  

If anyone is missing any messages and wishes to receive them by e-mail, just send me a message (at [log in to unmask]) 

Best regards

John

John Ruane, PhD
Moderator,
E-conference on Genomics in Food and Agriculture,
FAO Working Group on Biotechnology,
E-mail address: [log in to unmask]
FAO Biotechnology Forum: http://www.fao.org/biotech/biotech-forum/
FAO Biotechnology website: http://www.fao.org/biotech/ (in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian)

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[FROM THE BACKGROUND DOCUMENT - http://www.fao.org/docrep/017/aq145e/aq145e.pdf]

4. Topics to be discussed in this e-mail conference

This is the 19th e-mail conference to be hosted by the FAO Biotechnology Forum (http://www.fao.org/biotech/biotech-forum/en/) since it was launched in the year 2000. As with each conference hosted by the Forum, the focus is on applications in developing countries. 

As seen in Section 2, the first sequenced genomes of domesticated animals and plants were released about 10 years ago and an ever increasing number of important species have been sequenced each year since then. Also, the genomes of several thousand micro-organisms have now been sequenced. As seen in Section 3, the knowledge generated from genomics can be applied in several different ways. In this context, the first main question to be addressed in the conference is:

4.1 What have been the impacts (positive and/or negative) so far of genomics and the other 'omics' for the crop, forestry, livestock, fishery and agro-industry sectors in developing countries?

In addressing this question, the specific kinds of issues that participants might wish to discuss are:

- How exactly was the knowledge derived from genomics and the other 'omics' used?
- What kind of impacts did they have?
- Were the impacts the same in different sectors? If not, why not?
- Were the impacts the same in different developing world regions? If not, why not?
- What products, if any, were derived from the knowledge? If products were developed, how were intellectual property rights issues dealt with (an issue discussed in the second genomics-related session at ABDC-10 (FAO, 2011b))?
- Which specific issues enabled genomics and the other 'omics' to have positive impacts (e.g. government policies, international collaboration, public-private partnerships, complementary infrastructure, germplasm distribution networks)?
- Which specific issues prevented them from having positive impacts (e.g. costs, intellectual property rights, the species sequenced)?
- Were the impacts influenced by the sequencing strategy (e.g. generating genome sequence data in-house in developing countries versus outsourcing this work)?
- The relative importance of genomics versus transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics or other 'omics'

While the first main question looks at the past and the present, the second main question looks to the near future:
 
4.2 What are the impacts (positive and/or negative) of genomics and other 'omics' likely to be in the near future (e.g. the next five years) for the crop, forestry, livestock, fishery and agro-industry sectors in developing countries?
In addressing this question, the kind of issues that participants might wish to discuss might be: 
- Whether the magnitude of their impacts is likely to be big or small, and why?
- In which food and agricultural sectors are the impacts likely to be largest?
- In which developing world regions are the impacts likely to be largest?
- What can be changed so that genomics and the other 'omics' can have positive impacts on food security and sustainable development in developing countries in the near future?
- The relative importance of genomics versus transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics or other 'omics' in the near future

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