Coordination & Participants Accomplishments The Path Forward

1. Development of a Position Paper on the Theme Sustaining and Enhancing Productivity of Crop, Forest and Ocean Industries (SEP) Coordination & Participants Accomplishments The Path Forward

2. SEP theme Coordinators Doucet Daniel Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service Natural Resources Canada SEP Theme Leader MacKay John Centre d'étude de la forêt, Université Laval SEP Theme Leader Bonfils Anne-Christine Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada SEP Workshop Chair Smith Alex Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph SEP Theme Coordinator Rise Matthew Ocean Sciences Centre, Memorial University Culver Keith Department of Philosophy, Centre for Social Innovation Research University of New Brunswick Rothstein Steven University of Guelph

3. Expressions of Interests - Scope of the Theme Scope of SEP theme - Merging of (nine) Expressions of Interest 04 – Applied Fish Genomics for Aquaculture, Environment, and Fisheries (also in themes 4 and 5 – SEP: management of wild fish populations) Rise and Koop 11- Environmental Applications in Genomics: the Socio-Economic, Legal, Ethical, and Policy Challenges (also in themes 1, 2 and 4 – SEP: sustainability/productivity of natural resources) Eisiedel and Bocking 13- Forest Resources: Protection and Mitigation (100% SEP) – Arif and Doucet 29- Genomics of Invasive Species (100% SEP) – Rieseberg and Hebert (A. Smith) 30- Genomics of Seed Systems (also in themes 2 and 6 – SEP: seed performance and productivity) – Keller and Moloney 39- Productivity, Sustainability and Adaptation of Canada’s Forests (100% SEP) – MacKay and Ritland 47- The use of Genomics to Enhance the Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Crop Production (also in theme 6 – SEP: seed performance and productivity) – Rothstein and Good 08- Canadian Response to Global Change: Translating DNA for Industrial and Environmental Sustainability (also in themes 2 and 4 – SEP: not covered) – Tsang and Mohn 17- Better, Safer Medicine: Improving Efficacy, Safety and Quality of natural Health Products through Genomics and Proteomics (also in themes 2, 6, 8 – SEP: not covered) – Huber and Brown

4. Key Milestones – Accomplishments to date Information sessions in Ottawa (February, March, April) – Coordination committee formed. • Presentation by Alex Smith at April workshop Summarize key ideas from of EOIs. Identify cross-cutting drivers. • Discussion documents • FTP / Website for sharing documents. • Interactions, discussions with other PP themes: assess overlaps. Financial support from Genome Canada and Genome Québec. Strategy for developing position paper. • Science writer – Stephen Strauss • Coordination committee meeting in Toronto with Strauss • Impact analysis consultant – David Griller • Context paper produced by Strauss – May 18th • National Workshop – Facilitator Michael van Annhout

5. Key Milestones – Proposed Path Forward 1 Workshop report & outcomes – May 28th (Committee, consultants) Preparation of impact analysis document – Date D. Griller Expand, consolidate list of stakeholders and prospective supporters – Now to June 10th • Mechanism to engage stakeholders, generate interest and solicit input 2 First complete draft of Position Paper & Impact analysis document – June 8th • Communicate to workshop participants and stakeholders Integrate Impact Analysis into Paper 3 Input from workshop participants and other stakeholders – June 10th to 25th Integrate inputs (stakeholders and workshop participants) , Coordination committee finalizes, Strauss & Griller >>> Final Document – Due on July on 3rd 2007 <<<

6. Key Milestones – The Path Forward

7. From Drivers to Projects for the Position Paper Drivers Confirm Paper Context & Focus Needs Scope of problems to address Applications Solutions from genomics Select projects Highlight the science that is needed