Kristina Sinemus - Revision history

Claire Robinson at 20:27, 23 January 2011

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Claire Robinson: /* GMO Safety */

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GMO Safety

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−	[[Kristina Sinemus]] is founder (in 1998) and CEO of the German-based consultancy company [[Genius]] Ltd., which specializes in conceptualization and design of publications and websites for clients from governmental authorities and biotechnology companies. It carried out the development and content of the websites ~~www.gmo-safety.eu~~ and ~~www.gmo-compass.org~~.	+	[[Kristina Sinemus]] is founder (in 1998) and CEO of the German-based consultancy company [[Genius]] Ltd., which specializes in conceptualization and design of publications and websites for clients from governmental authorities and biotechnology companies. It carried out the development and content of the websites [[GMO Safety]] and [[GMO Compass]].

	==Studies and scientific work==		==Studies and scientific work==

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 The GMO Safety website exists since 2001 and is currently (2004-2010) funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) as communication project.
 gmo-safety.eu mainly exhibits the results of BMBF projects concerning risk analysis of GM crops, the results of the EU project BIOSAFENET (coordinated by [[Joachim Schiemann]]) as well as additional news and information.
-The editorial team consists of staff of the consultancy company [[Genius]] (among others [[Kristina Sinemus, CEO and Klaus Minol, Scientific Head), [[TransGeN]] (Gerd Spelsberg]] and  of TÜV Nord.
+The editorial team consists of staff of the consultancy company [[Genius]] (among others Kristina Sinemus, CEO and Klaus Minol, Scientific Head), [[TransGen]]'s [[Gerd Spelsberg]], and staff from TÜV Nord.
-All three companies/organisation are more or less explicitely in favour of GM crops. For example [[Genius]] and TÜV Nord are both members of the German branch of the internation biotech lobby organisation BIO, Bio Deutschland.
+All three companies/organisation are more or less explicitly in favour of GM crops. For example [[Genius]] and TÜV Nord are both members of the German branch of the international biotech lobby organisation BIO, Bio Deutschland.
-TÜV Nord an international company that among other services and test on safety issues, offers services for the supervision of genetic engineering laboratories and environmental releases of GMOs as well as support in the planning and conduction of environmental releases and post-market monitoring. It provides training courses for the safety experts required by law in every GE lab.
+TÜV Nord is an international company that among other services and test on safety issues, offers services for the supervision of genetic engineering laboratories and environmental releases of GMOs as well as support in the planning and conduction of environmental releases and post-market monitoring. It provides training courses for the safety experts required by law in every GE lab.
 ==GMO Compass==

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 ==GMO Safety==
 German version: www.biosicherheit.de
-The website gmo-safety.eu exists since 2001 and is currently (2004-2010) funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) as communication project.
+The GMO Safety website exists since 2001 and is currently (2004-2010) funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) as communication project.
 gmo-safety.eu mainly exhibits the results of BMBF projects concerning risk analysis of GM crops, the results of the EU project BIOSAFENET (coordinated by [[Joachim Schiemann]]) as well as additional news and information.
 The editorial team consists of staff of the consultancy company [[Genius]] (among others [[Kristina Sinemus, CEO and Klaus Minol, Scientific Head), [[TransGeN]] (Gerd Spelsberg]] and  of TÜV Nord.

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 TÜV Nord an international company that among other services and test on safety issues, offers services for the supervision of genetic engineering laboratories and environmental releases of GMOs as well as support in the planning and conduction of environmental releases and post-market monitoring. It provides training courses for the safety experts required by law in every GE lab.
-==Website GMO-compass.org==
+==GMO Compass==
-The website gmo-compass.org is maintained by the consultancy company [[Genius]] and [[TransGen]], who together also maintain the website [[gmo-safety.eu]].
+The [[GMO Compass]] website gmo-compass.org is maintained by the consultancy company [[Genius]] and [[TransGen]], who together also maintain the website [[gmo-safety.eu]].
 The site was funded in 2005-07 as EU project '' GMO-Compass - GMO Communication and safety evaluation platform'' with 460.000 Euro [http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=FP6_PROJ&ACTION=D&DOC=1&CAT=PROJ&QUERY=0119b9e0bf09:d456:543b4376&RCN=74127]
 Afterwards funding was first resumed in 2007 by EuropBio and in 2007/08 by the German Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMELV). [http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/imprint/] As of 2009 there is no information about the source of funding.

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 See main article: [[InnoPlanta]].
-==Website gmo-safety.eu==
+==GMO Safety==
 German version: www.biosicherheit.de
 The website gmo-safety.eu exists since 2001 and is currently (2004-2010) funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) as communication project.

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 ==Genius==
-Genius GmbH (Ltd) was founded 1998 as a spin-off of the Technical University Darmstadt. Shareholders are  [[Kristina Sinemus]], Klaus Minol, Hans Günter Gassen  und Mogg. [[Kristina Sinemus]] is CEO, Klaus Minol Scientific Head. See main article: [[Genius]].
+Genius GmbH (Ltd) was founded 1998 as a spin-off of the Technical University Darmstadt. Shareholders are  Kristina Sinemus, Klaus Minol, Hans Günter Gassen. Kristina Sinemus is CEO, and Klaus Minol is Scientific Head. See main article: [[Genius]].
 ==InnoPlanta==
 The organisation InnoPlanta e.V. was founded in 2000 as a project of BIO Mitteldeutschland Ltd. One of the founders is Hans Strohmeyer from BIO Mitteldeutschland Ltd., who acted as project coordinator and a head of InnoPlanta's office. It's loacted in Gatersleben (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) where the German seed bank is also located. Its aim is to give advice for members and to act as agency for funding, PR and “acceptance research” for GM crops.

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 ==Participation in lobby organisations==
-Since 1997, Kristina Sinemus organizes the German ''Gesprächskreis Grüne Gentechnik'' (GGG, Discussion group Green Biotechnology), a lobby group whose members are not published and which does not give out any organisation about itself. She is also a member of the ''Wissenschaftlerkreis Grüne Gentechnik'' (WGG, Scientist group Green Biotechnolgy) run by [[Klaus-Dieter Jany]] and founded among others by [[Klaus Ammann]].
+Since 1997, Kristina Sinemus organizes the German ''Gesprächskreis Grüne Gentechnik'' (GGG, Discussion group Green Biotechnology), a lobby group whose members are not published and which does not give out any information about itself. She is also a member of the ''Wissenschaftlerkreis Grüne Gentechnik'' (WGG, Scientist group Green Biotechnolgy) run by [[Klaus-Dieter Jany]] and founded among others by [[Klaus Ammann]].
 Kristina Sinemus is a board member of [[International Society for Biosafety Research]]<ref>[http://www.isbr.info/?q=node/68 Board], ISBR website, acc 23 Jan 2011</ref> ([[ISBR]]). Through [[Genius]] she is member of the [[EFB]], BIO Germany and [[InnoPlanta]]. Genius does PR work for Innoplanta and co-organizes its annual Innoplanta forum.
 Kristina Sinemus participated in the COP-MOP4 of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in Bonn, 2008 for the Global Industry Coalition, which brings together industry groups such as [[EuropaBio]], BIO (Biotechnology Industry Organisation (US)) and the BioIndustry Association (UK). [http://www.cbd.int/doc/meetings/bs/mop-04/information/mop-04-inf-27-en.pdf]

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 ==Studies and scientific work==
-Studied biology, German studies and pedagogics at the universities of Münster and Kassel (Germany). 1991-1995: Scientific assistant at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Technology (ZIT) at the Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany). 1995: PhD graduation on ''Biological risk analysis of genetically engineered herbicide resistant crops'' at the TU Darmstadt under Prof. Hans-Günter Gassen [http://www1.tu-darmstadt.de/fb/ch/Fachgebiete/BC/agg/ga_1.htm]. 1995-98: Head of the PR working group of the Institute for Biochemistry of the TU Darmstadt.
+Studied biology, German studies and pedagogics at the universities of Münster and Kassel (Germany). 1991-1995: Scientific assistant at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Technology (ZIT) at the Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany). 1995: PhD graduation on ''Biological risk analysis of genetically engineered herbicide resistant crops'' at the TU Darmstadt under Prof. [[Hans Günter Gassen]]. 1995-98: Head of the PR working group of the Institute for Biochemistry of the TU Darmstadt.
 ==Membership of commissions and working groups==

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 ==Participation in research projects==
-*Responsible for the project ''Communication management in biological safety research'' by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), in which research results of BMBF projects on risk assessment of GM crops are published on the website www.gmo-safety.eu. Genius Ltd. runs this website together with Transgen (Gerd Spelsberg) and the TÜV Nord.
+*Sinemus was responsible for the project ''Communication management in biological safety research'' by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), in which research results of BMBF projects on risk assessment of GM crops are published on the website www.gmo-safety.eu. Genius Ltd. runs this website together with Transgen (Gerd Spelsberg) and the TÜV Nord.
-*Together with Transgen, Genius also maintains the website of the former EU project ''GMO-Compass'' (www.gmo-compass.org), that also published the results of [[Joachim Schiemann]]'s EU project BIOSAFENET, and where [[Genius]] acts as contact. For both websites Kristina Sinemus is explicitly named<ref>[http://www.gmo-safety.eu/en/legal_notice/ Legal notice], GMO Safety, acc 23 Jan 2011</ref><ref>[http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/imprint/ Imprint], GMO Compass website, acc 23 Jan 2011</ref>. In case of gmo-compass.org the editors describe the site as the work of “independent science journalists”.<ref>"[http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/imprint/ GMO-Compass imprint]", GMO Compass website, acc 23 Jan 2011</ref>
+*Together with Transgen, Genius maintains the website of the former EU project [[GMO Compass]] (www.gmo-compass.org), which also published the results of [[Joachim Schiemann]]'s EU project BIOSAFENET, and where [[Genius]] acts as contact. For both websites Kristina Sinemus is explicitly named<ref>[http://www.gmo-safety.eu/en/legal_notice/ Legal notice], GMO Safety, acc 23 Jan 2011</ref><ref>[http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/imprint/ Imprint], GMO Compass website, acc 23 Jan 2011</ref>. In case of gmo-compass.org the editors describe the site as the work of “independent science journalists”.<ref>"[http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/imprint/ GMO-Compass imprint]", GMO Compass website, acc 23 Jan 2011</ref>
-*Member of the German mirror group of the ''Technology Platform Plants for the Future''.
+*Sinemus represents Genius in the EU's ''Technology Platform Plants for the Future''.
 ==Participation in lobby organisations==