As a Certified Sommelier, and conservationist who values sustainability and accountability, Marmee specialized in biodynamic wines and farming practices. Bridget works closely with Revive & Restore leadership and the Catalyst Science Fund Advisory Council to develop an overarching investment and grant strategy designed to accelerate the creation of impactful innovations in conservation. Stewart Brand is co-founder of Revive & Restore and co-founder and president of The Long Now Foundation, where Revive & Restore was incubated for its first four years. 15/ Winter 2022 - After the Green New Deal, No. As lead scientist, he heads Revive & Restores de-extinction efforts and is the lead coordinator for conservation cloning projects, and in 2022 has expanded his role to include Program Manager for the newly launched Biotechnology for Bird Conservation endeavor. [3] Afterwards the group's work has expanded to bring back genetic diversity through the cloning of historic, cryopreserved cell lines. In 1995 she founded Direct Medical Knowledgea consumer health web site unique for its content depth and innovative search interface that was acquired by WebMD in 1999. In 2001 she was co-founder and director of the ALL Species Foundation, a global science initiative to discover all life on Earth in 25 years. It's always worth talking about consequences, but rationally. Phelan earned her bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of over 30 publications and has 19 issued patents. She co-directs the Paleogenomics Lab at UCSC, and her lab published the first DNA sequences of the Passenger Pigeon in 2002.

Keeping very rare species alive in the wild as New Zealanders have done so impressively is nonetheless technically hard and expensive. They've worked to improve biodiversity in populations of black-footed ferrets, Przewalski's horse, coral, and more. She is the Executive Director of Revive & Restore, with a missionto enhance biodiversity through the genetic rescue of endangered and extinct species. One thing led to another and we started talking with George about what it would mean if we could actually apply this towards the de-extinction of species. He developed strategic partnerships across philanthropic, non-profit, government, and commercial sectors to develop technologies for coral reef restoration, measuring microplastic in the worlds oceans, and zero carbon aviation fuel. Its much worse than that. Ryan works with some of the worlds leading molecular biologists, conservation biologists, and conservation organizations to envision and develop pioneering genetic rescue projects using cutting-edge genomic technologies to solve seemingly intractable wildlife conservation challenges such as those posed by inbreeding, exotic diseases, climate change, and destructive invasive species. Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, NYU Is Shame Necessary? We seek additional partners to join this collaborative and advance this novel restoration and resilience effort. Currently Ben is working on publications of the worlds first successfully cloned Pzrewalskis horse and black-footed ferret, and a review of the historic trends of cloning research for conservation. TED Conferences, LLC. I've been dealing with this whole genetic exceptionalism now for almost a decade with personalized medicine. Should the entire group have been queried, my guess is that its majority, certainly in the case of the large, delicate, and vegetarian Steller's sea cow, would have answered in a resounding "No." The second issue is that "we" humans have already disrupted the world. We just don't have it. Bens work at Revive & Restore also includes extensive education and outreach, the co-convening of seminal workshops, and helping to develop ongoing projects and scope new opportunities to expand genetic rescue science and applications through Revive & Restores Catalyst Science Fund and Wild Genomes Grants. From 2017 to 2019, Ben worked at the Australian Center for Disease Preparedness CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) to advance genetic engineering protocols for the domestic pigeon. Something with a very different immune system and incomplete in fundamental waysperhaps not viable. In Materials Engineering, an M.S. He sits on the boards of Akoya Biosciences (AKYA), The Breakthrough Institute, Revive & Restore, Austin PBS and several advisory boards associated with The University of Texas. Could we? Over the last seven years I've been working primarily in personalized medicine, keeping my eye on the application of genomic medicine in different areas, and the growth of genomics and the shockingly drop in the sequencing price, and the cost of sequencing, and what that means to all different areas of science. We're contemplating the ethics involved in all this. The SB Conference Series (SBx.0 Conference) is the worlds foremost professional meeting in the field of synthetic biology. Thank you! Marmee serves Revive & Restore as Director of Operations, helping to keep the organization running gracefully under the leadership of its Executive Director. We're sequencing that right now at Harvard, with an intern that we're helping to fund, named Ben Novak. Ryan Phelan is the cofounder and executive director of Revive & Restore, a wildlife conservation organization that promotes the use of biotechnologies along with standard conservation practices. Part 3 of TED Radio Hour episode Reshaping Evolution. They would darken the sky. Who are you to introduce something that could be "invasive"? Sign up to get our newsletter in your inbox every Wednesday. RYAN PHELAN is the Executive Director of Revive and Restore, a project within The Long Now Foundation, witha mission to provide deep ecological enrichment through extinct species revival. You can follow us on Twitter @TEDRadioHour and email us at TEDRadio@npr.org. San Francisco, CA 94105 I'm going to just take the passenger pigeon as an example, not because it's my favorite bird, but because it's so iconic. If something was meant to go extinct, then who are we to screw around with it and bring it back? Those threatened by invasive diseases may be able to acquire genetic disease resistance. He joined the Zoology Department at the University of Texas at Austin as an Assistant Professor in 1983 and in 1989, as an Associate Professor, founded Ambion Inc., a biotechnology company that was a pioneer in the use of RNA technologies for biomedical research. An attractive candidate will have a broad understanding of genomics and conservation and recognize that the pace of environmental change demands innovation. 40 globally significant island ecosystems, from ridge-to-reef to benefit biodiversity, climate, and communities by 2030. Session 5 ushers in the astonishing, challenging and sometimes playful innovations that could mold the future. An estimated 869 species have gone officially and, so far, irreversibly extinct just since the 16th century, and 290 more species are considered critically endangered and possibly extinct -- and in almost all cases the finger points to humans. Through competitive funding processes, he has helped to create new scholarly networks in diverse areas including positive psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, genetics, complexity, virtue ethics, and wisdom. She has organized landmark. Whether it's in academia or it's being done in industry, I think the science is going to be challenged around this really intriguing issue. The idea of bringing cutting-edge biotech to conservation first went public with Stewarts 2013 TED Talk, The Dawn of De-extinction. Stewart has been an ardent conservationist since he was 10. I don't think it's really nature's way. They're calling it the Lazarus Project. Revive & Restore is looking for a Communications Director who can give a compelling voice to our conservation story. Ryan is a serial entrepreneur, active in the for-profit and non-profit worlds. For the official job description and directions for applying, please click here. And if it's nature's way, who in the world says anyone should go about changing nature's way? Bens notable publications include his 2018 review article, De-extinction, in the journal Genes helped to define this new term, his treatment, Building Ethical De-Extinction ProgramsConsiderations of Animal Welfare in Genetic Rescue published in December 2019 in The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics: 1st Edition, and most recently a 125 year analysis of the impacts of biodiversity translocations U.S. These things are going to happen. The species of choice right now that we're looking at helping, aiding, and abetting, is the passenger pigeon, and the passenger pigeon, as you may know, is an iconic bird that had flocks in the billions just over a hundred years ago. Time: 5:30 p.m. check-in, 6 p.m. program It turns out, of course, that in George's lab he's pioneering in all these methods. We don't really know what it is. She uses DNA recovered from bones and other organic remains to study how species and communities evolved through time and how human activities affected this dynamic process.

Sure. Dr. Megan J. Palmer is the Executive Director of Bio Policy & Leadership Initiatives at Stanford University. For many of us bird lovers, we love the peregrine falcon. The goal of Revive & Restore's projects is to enhance biodiversity through new techniques of genetic rescue. We don't have anything like that today. Join us today in this campaign of hope and resilience! It's going to be about what we learn. We're in the process of starting a new organization. We'll be talking with these scientists about the different technologies that they're deploying, of which this genome hybridization technique that George is doing is going to be one and I'm sure there are others. Ryan Phelan is the Co-founder and Executive Director of, Ryan works with some of the worlds leading molecular biologists, conservation biologists, and conservation organizations to envision and develop pioneering genetic rescue projects using cutting-edge genomic technologies to solve seemingly intractable wildlife conservation challenges such as those posed by inbreeding, exotic diseases, climate change, and destructive invasive species. Endangered species that have lost their crucial genetic diversity may be restored to reproductive health. No sweat, no grime, nothing muddy, or involving the messy interactions with poor peoples and their politics and economics that characterize my world. Stewart Brand, Co-founder, Revive and Restore; Founder, The Long Now Foundation; Founder/Editor, The Whole Earth Catalogue It's another to actually release it into the wild. A good example of a reintroduction of a species is the peregrine falcon.

Here are some commitment examples to inspire your thinking. In 2005 Phelan launched DNA Direct, the first medical genetics company to focus on bringing personalized medicine to the consumer market. One of the fundamental questions here is, is extinction a good thing? TED.com translations are made possible by volunteer Her love of nature has led to her appreciation for the biotechnologies being developed to protect it. in Nuclear Engineering from North Carolina State University, and a B.S. She also spent 5 years directing policy efforts for the multi-university Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (Synberc), and held positions as a project scientist at UC Berkeley, and a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford. The goal is to use cutting-edge genomic technologies to solve previously intractable wildlife conservation challengers such as those posed by inbreeding, exotic diseases, climate change, and destructive invasive species. And is this a bad thing? One of the fundamental questions here is, is extinction a good thing? From genetic technology to NFTs, six speakers give insights on whats to come, celebrate the fusion of tech and human creativity and make the case for rousing the techno-optimist in us all.

NOTE: The following conversation took place at the seventh annual. Brads particular restoration focus is with The American Chestnut Foundation, working to develop a disease-resistant American chestnut tree to restore to the Appalachian forest. His hobby is Ecological Restoration, but done on a scale that most would consider well beyond a hobby. Even among pigeons, there are some learned behaviors. And so we'll be talking to scientists that are working in captive breeding, like the San Diego Zoo, with the California ondor. Location: SF Club Office What I fear, quite honestly, is backlash that we've seen around genetically modified foods, that these organisms will be deemed genetically modified, which, of course, they are. conservation translocations: Over a century of intended consequences published in the Journal of Conservation Science and Practice 2021 Intended Consequences Special Issue. [9], De-extinction has been criticized as too costly, consuming funds that could be used for other conservation goals, well as characterized as a distraction from currently endangered species. degree in Genetics and a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of California at Berkeley. This is genome engineering, and there may be way too much of a concern over what happens when they go into the wild. Dr. Palmer received her Ph.D. in Biological Engineering from M.I.T. [7] Since the oocyte used was from a domestic horse, this was an example of interspecies SCNT. The book has two chapters on the environmental benefits of biotechnology. You have been subscribed to WBUR Today. That begs a question. in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She works directly with various research teams as they submit proposals, refine their scope of work, establish milestones, and oversee progress and deliverables. Matt is a lifelong biologist and environmentalist. There is concern both that The American chestnut, for example, will not survive without intervention and that using genetics to avert this is nevertheless unwarranted. They are always seductive. Bens mission in leading the Great Passenger Pigeon Comeback is to set the standard for de-extinction protocols and considerations in the lab and field. And the truth is, we're just at the beginning of trying to figure all this out. [11] Revive & Restore is also mentioned in the 2021 documentary film, "We Are As Gods[de]". She has since become one of the premiere scientists contemplating the emerging field of de-extinction. I think that the extinction that we've seen since man is 99.9 percent caused by man. [RYAN PHELAN:] The big question that I'm asking right now is: If we could bring back an extinct species, should we? He has a long-term interest in using the tools of biotechnology for conservation and environmental issues. [5] Revive & Restore also helped with the restoration of a clone (named "Kurt") of Przewalski's horse ("the most endangered horse in the world"), from cells frozen 40 years previously. Many of these disappearances, like the Tasmanian tiger, the Great auk, and the Steller's sea cow, were precipitated by a relatively small group that never asked their fellow earthlings, let alone future generations, if they wanted these animals gone forever. Phelan is a serial entrepreneur and was the founder and CEO of two innovative health-care companies, DNA Direct and Direct Medical Knowledge. Gillians background includes fieldwork project management in Costa Rica, piloting a youth mentorship program with AmeriCorps, and caring for and rehabilitating wild animals removed from the black market pet trade in Bolivia. aims to maximize the marine benefits of island conservation for ecosystems including coral reefs, and climate and community resilience. Are we responsible for what we do not do as much as for what we do do? Pete serves as deputy director, responsible for overall project management and strategy to bring our complex projects and initiatives to life and help our team execute these plans. So right now that one is not a worry. on genetic rescue bringing together global experts to identify the challenges facing endangered species to identify what genetic tools can be used or designed to help save them from extinction. Ryan is a serial entrepreneur active in both the for-profit and non-profit worlds. Should we? Learn more about the But could it be someday? We're using the term "resurgence" because as you can imagine, there's a lot of controversy over if you could bring back an extinct species, is it invasive? The idea with the passenger pigeon is to take a closely related relative, which is the and-tailed pigeon, and sequence that genome.

Somebody has to responsibly help the industry and academia think through these heady issues, and I think we're going to start that dialogue this fall. What does all this mean to the average citizen? An entity does not simply live in its context; it has "context" inside (and on) itself. [ism-social-followers list='fb,tw,li,youtube,instagram' template='ism_template_sf_1' list_align='horizontal' display_counts='false' display_full_name='true' box_align='center' ]. There are a couple of broader points of context worth noting. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California Santa Cruz, Australian Center for Disease Preparedness CSIRO, 2018 review article, De-extinction, in the journal Genes, Building Ethical De-Extinction ProgramsConsiderations of Animal Welfare in Genetic Rescue, The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics: 1st Edition, U.S.