We're talking about how potential misuses of advances in life sciences research raise concerns about national security threats and about mechanisms that would allow researchers to manage the dissemination of the results of research while mitigating the potential for harm. We helped write a report on the subject for the National Academies I'm Arturo Casadevall, Professor and Chair in the W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. My research focuses on how microbes cause disease and how hosts can protect themselves against those microbes. And I'm Claire Fraser, Director of the Institute for Genome Sciences and a Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. My research focuses on the role that the human gut microbiome plays in health and certain diseases. We will be back at 1 pm ET to answer your questions, ask us anything!

Hi reddit, I'm Steve Bradbury, a professor of environmental toxicology at Iowa State University. My research spans pesticide resistance management, pollination services and monarch butterfly conservation, and sustainable agriculture. I also had a long career at the Environmental Protection Agency. I served on the National Academies committee that wrote the report on future biotechnology products. I'm Farren Isaacs, assistant professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology at Yale University. My research focuses on using foundational genomic and biomolecular engineering technologies to develop new genetic codes. I served on the National Academies committee. We're talking about the landscape of future biotechnology products and the capacity, expertise, and tools of the U.S. regulatory system that oversees those products. We will be back at 1 pm ET to answer your questions, Ask us anything! You can read about more about our committee's work and download our report here.