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SUMMARY:Sustainable Futures: Biodiversity Seminar
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DESCRIPTION:Date: 24 Apr 2025\n\nTime: 13:00- 14:00\n\nLocation: Nancy Ro
 thwell building\, 3A.012\n\nIndicative Agenda: \n\n13:00 - 14:05 - Intro
 ductions and Welcome.\n\n13:05 - 13:25 -Dr Emma Shuttleworth\, title tbc
 \n\n13:25 - 13:30 - Q&A\n\n13:30 - 13:50 - Dr Hannah Dickinson\, Promisi
 ng blue futures: marine biotechnologies and the uptake of ocean life\n\n
 13:50 - 13:55 - Q&A\n\n13:55 - 14:00 - Closing thoughts from our seminar
  Chair.\n\n\nTalk Description:\n\nPromising blue futures: marine biotech
 nologies and the uptake of ocean life\nOceans and ocean biodiversity are
  becoming increasingly central to policy and public imaginaries concerne
 d with securing sustainable planetary futures. Contrary to common unders
 tanding that oceans and marine life are on the brink of ecological colla
 pse\, recent policy discourses have instead positioned seas and oceanic 
 species as the latest frontier for technological innovation and sustaina
 ble economic growth. Oceans are being reimagined as a utopian space\, pr
 omising endless opportunities for achieving healthy socio-ecological fut
 ures. Central to the development of these discourses is the growing mari
 ne biotechnology sector. With an estimated sector value of $6.5 billion\
 , the marine biotechnology industry is constantly identifying novel -- c
 ommercially valuable -- compounds and biomaterials from ocean biodiversi
 ty. \n\nThese biomaterials are being developed into biofuels\, pharmaceu
 ticals\, and myriad other applications that promise to transform ecosyst
 ems and ailing human bodies. Focusing on examples from my research in Eu
 rope and the USA this talk explores the promises and pitfalls of blue bi
 otechnology. I consider whether our collective reimagining of the ocean 
 and uptake of marine biodiversity can locate solutions to planetary prec
 arity\; or whether these technologically mediated dreams of sustainable 
 blue futures are merely an illusion built on the back of ocean organisms
 .\n\n[https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sustainable-futures-seminar-biodive
 rsity-tickets-1246139770599/ Register to attend this event]\n\n
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:3A.012\, Nancy Rothwell Building\, Booth St East
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