Online Network of Laboratories for the Detection and Identification of Living Modified Organisms
In decision 9/11, the Conference of Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety requested the Executive Secretary to continue facilitating online discussions of the Network of Laboratories for the Detection and Identification of Living Modified Organisms (LMOs). Furthermore, in decision 14/19 on synthetic biology, the Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity requested the Executive Secretary to collaborate and convene discussions, including through the Network of Laboratories for the Detection and Identification of Living Modified Organisms, for sharing experiences on the detection, identification and monitoring of organisms, components and products of synthetic biology, and to continue inviting laboratories, including analytical laboratories, to join the Network.
Through notification 2019-069 Parties, other Governments and relevant organizations were invited to nominate participants to the open-ended online discussions of the Network of Laboratories.
Based on the above, discussions of the Network of Laboratories for the Detection and Identification of Living Modified Organisms are being convened and will take place from 28 October to 11 November 2019. The three topics will run simultaneously.
The discussions will be moderated by Ms. Shakirat Ajenifujah-Solebo from Nigeria.
- Topic 1: Current techniques used in the detection and identification of LMOs, with special consideration of any new technique that is currently in use since the last discussion of the Network of Laboratories in April 2018
- Topic 2: Sharing of experiences on the detection, identification, and monitoring of organisms, components and products of synthetic biology
- Topic 3: Overview of current capacity for the detection and identification of living modified organisms
Online discussions extended to: 11 November 2019 at 1:00 AM GMT
Resources for this discussion:
1) Open-ended Online Forum on Synthetic Biology, March 2019
Topic 6: Sharing of experiences on detection, identification and monitoring of organisms, components and products of synthetic biology
2) Results of the submission of information requested in notification 2019-062
