Research Mission
The research mission of the Biotron is to:
- accelerate our understanding of the responses to and consequences of global climate change on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems;
- support and stimulate the shift of growth markets towards a "bioeconomy" in the areas of medicine and agriculture;
- assess and quantify the potential environmental benefits and risks associated with emerging biotechnologies on biodiversity and general ecosystem health.
Strategy
Under the direction of the Biotron's Steering Committee and Research Management Committee, the research mission will be accomplished by:
- integrating research in environmental biology, medicine and agriculture;
- providing unprecedented experimental scale and flexibility with respect to controlled environment research on organisms as diverse as microbes, plants and insects in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
The resulting deliverable will be a blueprint for long-term, ecosystem health in conjunction with sustainable economic growth in the medical and agricultural sectors of the global economy.
