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GES Center Lectures, NC State University

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 Recorded live from NC State’s GES Colloquium, this show explores how biotechnologies move from lab to life: microbiome engineering in buildings, CRISPR in agriculture and forestry, gene drives and integrated pest management, data governance and benefit-sharing, risk analysis and regulation, sci-art collaborations, and practical models of responsible innovation and public engagement. Episodes feature researchers, students, and community partners in candid conversations about decisions, trade-offs, and impacts. Learn more at go.ncsu.edu/ges and sign up for our newsletter at http://eepurl.com/c-PD_T. Produced by Patti Mulligan, Communications Director, GES Center, NC StateCopyright 2026 Istruzione Scienza Scienze sociali
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  • S13E1 - Catching Up on the CRISPR Craze with Rodolphe Barrangou

    S13E1 - Catching Up on the CRISPR Craze with Rodolphe Barrangou
    Jan 21 2026
    Recorded from NC State’s GES Colloquium, this podcast examines how biotechnologies take shape in the world: microbiome engineering in built environments, gene editing and gene drives, forest and agricultural genomics, data governance and equity, risk and regulation, sci-art, and public engagement in practice. _________ Soil Secrets Unlock Equitable Futures Nelson 4305 + Zoom | Learn how burial soil genomics paired with descendant community partnership and bioethical data governance, can reconstruct buried histories and inform more equitable, socially accountable biomedical futures. This talk will describe how applications of biotechnology, specifically DNA sequencing and computational genomics, are reshaping what we can learn about past communities while raising important questions about ethics, governance, and public trust. My lab develops non destructive approaches that recover DNA from burial soils, enabling research that minimizes disturbance of human remains and expands the scientific toolkit for studying historical populations. I will share what this technology can and cannot tell us about ancestry, health, and environmental context, and why careful interpretation matters when working with complex, sensitive samples. Using the Hillsborough Legacy Project as a case study, I will show how we integrate burial soil genomics and archaeological evidence from a historically enslaved population with saliva derived DNA from local living descendants, paired with genealogical and health surveys and community interviews. I will demonstrate how this combined design strengthens inference by linking molecular signals to documented histories and lived experience, while also requiring explicit attention to bioethical practice, including consent, governance of data use, and responsible communication of results. A central theme is how scientific innovation and social responsibility must be built together. I will discuss how descendant community partnership, consent, and data governance influence research design, what counts as evidence, and how results are communicated and used. The broader impacts extend beyond any single site. These methods can broaden representation in genomics, inform more equitable approaches to precision medicine, and provide communities with scientifically grounded narratives that complement archival records and oral histories. The talk will highlight how biotechnology interacts with society through questions of ownership, benefit sharing, and the risks of misinterpretation, and why interdisciplinary collaboration across biological sciences, social sciences, and the humanities is essential for responsible, high impact research. Related links: Persistent human-associated microbial signatures in burial soils from the 17th and 18th century New York African burial ground , CK Clinton , FLC Jackson – ISME Communications , 2025 Core issues, case studies, and the need for expanded Legacy African American genomics , F Jackson, CK Clinton , J Caldwell – Frontiers in Genetics , 2023 www.carterclinton.com Download seminar poster Carter Clinton, PhD Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University | Profile Dr. Carter Clinton is a genetic anthropologist, National Geographic Explorer, and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University, where he directs the Ancestry, Soil, Health, and Evolutionary Studies (ASHES) Lab. He earned his PhD in Biology at Howard University and completed postdoctoral training at Pennsylvania State University. His research advances non-destructive genomics for historical populations, including work at the New York African Burial Ground that helped establish recovery and authentication of human ancient DNA (aDNA) from burial soils as an alternative to destructive skeletal sampling. The ASHES Lab applies these methods to newly documented burial sites in North Carolina, integrating soil derived human, microbial, plant, and animal aDNA using targeted and shotgun sequencing and unique bioinformatic pipelines (specific to highly fragmented, soil derived DNA) to connect molecular signatures with archaeological and archival context. With descendant community partnership, the lab compares human aDNA with genetic data from local living descendants, alongside health and genealogical surveys, and interviews, to support an evolutionary medicine framework that links ancestry, the environment, and social determinants of health to contemporary disease risk. Ethical stewardship, consent, data governance, and benefit sharing are embedded in each project. The Genetic Engineering and Society (GES) Colloquium is a seminar series that brings in speakers to present and stimulate discussion on a variety of topics related to existing and proposed biotechnologies and their place within broader societal changes. GES Colloquium is taught by Dr. Zack Brown, and the seminars serve as a great opportunity for our students to build their networks ...
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  • S12E8 - Hamidou Maiga – Building Local Capacity for Innovative Mosquito Control

    S12E8 - Hamidou Maiga – Building Local Capacity for Innovative Mosquito Control
    Nov 19 2025

    Nov. 18, 2025 GES Colloquium

    Building Local Capacity for Innovative Mosquito Control: Lessons from SIT and Nanotechnology Research

    ZOOM ONLY | Dr. Hamidou Maïga will share insights on how innovative mosquito control, including Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) and nanotechnology, is being used to combat vector-borne diseases.

    Innovative and sustainable mosquito control approaches are urgently needed to address the growing challenge of vector-borne diseases in Africa. This presentation will showcase efforts to build local capacity for the development and implementation of advanced technologies, focusing on the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) and nanotechnology-based interventions. Drawing from ongoing research worldwide, we will discuss the optimization of mosquito mass-rearing, irradiation, and release systems to enhance the efficiency of SIT programs. In parallel, we will highlight promising findings from studies on chemically and green-synthesized silver nanoparticles, which demonstrated strong larvicidal activity against both susceptible and insecticide-resistant strains of Anopheles coluzzii. These results underline the potential of nanotechnology as an eco-friendly and effective complement to traditional control tools. The presentation will also address challenges in developing nanotechnology-based approaches as a potential tool to reduce the burden of mosquito-borne diseases across Africa.

    Related links:

    • Blog: Governing Emerging Technologies: A Lesson from Burkina Faso , Nourou Barry and Katie Barnhill, 9/5/25

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    Hamidou Maïga, PhD

    Medical Entomologist at the Institute de Recherche en Sciences de la Sante, Direction Regionale de l’Ouest (IRSS-DRO), Burkina Faso | LinkedIn | Google Scholar | X

    Dr. Hamidou Maïga is a medical entomologist whose research focuses on innovative mosquito control strategies to combat vector-borne diseases. He specializes in the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), contributing to the development and optimization of mosquito mass-rearing, irradiation, and release systems to enhance the effectiveness of SIT-based programs. Dr. Maïga has also initiated pioneering work on the application of nanotechnology in mosquito control, exploring eco-friendly, plant-based nanoparticle formulations as sustainable alternatives to conventional insecticides. His broader research aims to strengthen local scientific capacity and promote environmentally sound, genetics- and plant-based approaches to vector management across Africa

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    Recorded from NC State’s GES Colloquium, this podcast examines how biotechnologies take shape in the world: microbiome engineering in built environments, gene editing and gene drives, forest and agricultural genomics, data governance and equity, risk and regulation, sci-art, and public engagement in practice.

    Genetic Engineering and Society Center

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    GES Center at NC State University—Integrating scientific knowledge & diverse public values in shaping the futures of biotechnology.

    Produced by Patti Mulligan, Communications Director, GES Center, NC State

    Find out more at https://ges-center-lectures-ncsu.pinecast.co
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  • S12E7 - Susana Mateos – Navigating a socio-ecological inquiry

    S12E7 - Susana Mateos – Navigating a socio-ecological inquiry
    Nov 12 2025

    Nov. 11, 2025 GES Colloquium

    Navigating a socio-ecological inquiry

    Scientific inquiry into the socio-ecological challenges of forced displacement, environmental degradation, and shifting land use requires an interdisciplinary and multi-scalar approach. This research examines the interplay between local ecological knowledge, environmental pressures, human migration, and the broader global economic and political systems that shape these processes.

    What comes to mind when you think of Costa Rica? Volcanoes, toucans, and turquoise rivers?

    My journey as an avian ecologist working in Costa Rica brought me to a complex dynamic between the natural beauty of the country and the xenophobia towards people from Nicaragua. Listening and learning from first and second-generation Nicaraguan immigrants living in Costa Rica has shaped my doctoral research. My research explores how displaced Nicaraguan migrants and Costa Ricans know their natural surroundings and how they build a relationship with the land through everyday practices. This inquiry has pushed me beyond the boundaries of traditional ecological research, requiring an interdisciplinary lens and an openness to multiple ways of knowing. It has also allowed me to articulate the importance of engaging with the philosophy of science to question how we produce knowledge, whose knowledge counts, and how scientific practice can evolve to be more inclusive and reflexive.

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    Susana Mateos

    Graduate student at North Carolina State University | Profile

    Susana grounds her work in community engagement and collaborative learning. She has worked with the Antioch University New England’s community engagement team since 2020, where they have engaged with over 200 environmental leaders through the North American Association of Environmental Education community. Susana is a PhD student in the Forestry and Environmental Resources department. In addition to her current formal education, she works on a collaborative project with the California State University Desert Studies Center and Bureau of Land Management, to engage off-highway vehicle users, land managers, and tribes across the Mojave Desert. Trained as an ecologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she has been involved in avian conservation projects in southern California and Costa Rica. Her bird conservation path brought her to learning from the communities that live among the biodiversity she loves. While studying manakins at Parque Nacional Volcán Tenorio, she began engaging with a rural Costa Rican community, learning about their connections to the natural environment as first and second-generation migrants from Nicaragua. Using political ecology and ethnoecology as theoretical frameworks, she seeks to understand the complex socio-ecological dynamics (power relations, resource distribution and environmental justice) within the community.

    __ Recorded from NC State’s GES Colloquium, this podcast examines how biotechnologies take shape in the world: microbiome engineering in built environments, gene editing and gene drives, forest and agricultural genomics, data governance and equity, risk and regulation, sci-art, and public engagement in practice.

    Genetic Engineering and Society Center

    Colloquium Home | Zoom Registration | Watch Colloquium Videos | LinkedIn | Newsletter

    GES Center at NC State University—Integrating scientific knowledge & diverse public values in shaping the futures of biotechnology.

    Produced by Patti Mulligan, Communications Director, GES Center, NC State

    Find out more at https://ges-center-lectures-ncsu.pinecast.co
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