CSTMS Associate Director Sam Weiss Evans gave a talk to the United Nations’ Biological Weapons Convention Meeting of Experts in Geneva on August 6, 2014. He and several of his colleagues presented on work they have been doing as part of the British ESRC/AHRC/DSTL funded grant on The Formulation and Non-formulation of Security Concerns: Preventing the Destructive Application of the Life Sciences.

Evans presented on ways to “‘Take Care of Security in Synthetic Biology,” which is a piece of work he is currently developing with Emma Frow at the University of Edinburgh. The main argument is that states would benefit from building in mechanisms to consider the assumptions they make about objects of security concern and the validity and legitimacy of the mechanisms they use to govern them. See his slides, and please email him at sam@evansresearch.org if you have any questions.

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