Embryo Editing – presentation and panel discussion

A photo of a presentation slide captured by Anna while attending the summit

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A still of Anna giving her presentation during the Public Engagement Efforts section of the summit

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A photo of some attendees captured by Anna while attending the summit

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Anna Middleton and Jennifer Doudna, inventor of CRISP-Cas9. Dr Doudna moderated the panel discussion Anna participated on.

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A still captured by Anna of He Jiankui, the controversial scientist behind the first live births to result from edited embryos.

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A still of Anna's presentation captured by summit attendee and Your DNA, Your Say collaborator Jusaku Minari

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A still of Anna's slides captured by summit attendee and Your DNA, Your Say collaborator Jusaku Minari

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29th November 2018

Anna’s presentation and subsequent panel discussion were a part of the section of the conference called “Public Engagement Efforts,” held on the final afternoon of the three day summit.

Fellow panelists were Joy Y. Zhang of the University of Kent, Megan Munsie of the University of Melbourne and Masako Takuma of the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation.

The section was chaired by Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkley.

A main focus of the summit was on He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who created the first genetically edited embryos that resulted in live births, twins Lulu and Nana. He was at the summit where he attempted to defend his controversial work, which was undertaken largely in secret from the wider scientific community. 80,000 people viewed the live summit webcasts and 1.8 million viewed the special press stream of the webcasts.

A video of his full presentation, plus subsequent Q&A, at which Anna had the opportunity to ask a series of questions about whether or not Dr He had obtained informed consent from the parents, is below:

Downloads:

MP3 of He Jiankui's full session including Q&A

Citation:

Middleton A (2018). Public Engagement Efforts: Your DNA, Your Say. Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing, Hong Kong, 29th November. Spoken presentation and panel discussion

Embryo Editing – presentation and panel discussion