Future Seminars
Seminar Colour Guide:
| Career Event | Friday, 4 December 2020, 11:00EMBL Careers Webinar | Applying to group leader positions Monica Bettencourt-Dias, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Portugal | Jason Chin, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology, UK | Patrick Meraldi, Universite de Geneve, SwitzerlandHost: EMBL Fellows' Career ServiceVirtual seminar, EMBL Heidelberg |
| External Faculty Speaker | Wednesday, 9 December 2020, 10:00Reproducible cryo-EM sample preparation with minimal sample volumesArjen Jakobi, TU Delft, NetherlandsHost: Felix Weisvia Zoom VC, EMBL Heidelberg Abstract: Join Zoom Meeting
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| Science and Society | Friday, 11 December 2020, 11:00Livestock, the Global Environment, and COVID-19: a reflection on Livestock Systems before and after the PandemicAlessandra Falcucci, Lead Geographic Information Systems analyst, Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM), Food & Agricultural Organisation of the UN, ItalyHost: Lucia von BredowVirtual seminar, EMBL Heidelberg Abstract: This talk will explore livestock, the global environment, and COVID-19, and will reflect on livestock systems before and after the pandemic.
The sustainability of the livestock systems is the focus of growing public debate, extensively discussed in the media and increasingly on the agenda of high-level political meetings. Over the last 30 years, consumption of meat, milk and eggs in lower middle-income countries has more than tripled. Population growth, urbanisation, income gains and globalisation continue to fuel the âlivestock revolutionâ. According to FAO projections, under a business-as-usual scenario, demand for meat will increase by a further 60% by 2030, compared to 2006, and by over 200% by 2050. This represents a big source of challenges and opportunities on how to reduce environmental impacts, while continuing to meet societyâs needs. |