biographies
A Growing Concern: Authors of Technical Report
Dr. David A. Andow
Dr. Henry Daniell
Dr. Paul Gepts
Dr. Kendall R. Lamkey
Dr. Emerson D. Nafziger
Mr. Dennis Strayer DR. DAVID A. ANDOW
David A. Andow is professor of insect ecology in the Department of Entomology at the University of Minnesota, where he conducts research on agricultural sustainability and environmental risk assessment of genetically engineered organisms. Dr. Andow has published about 150 research articles and edited nine books and has served on numerous Environmental Protection Agency committees on the environmental risks of genetically engineered organisms, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Biotechnology Research Advisory Committee, and the Liaison Group to the Cartagena Protocol under the Convention on Biological Diversity. Currently, Dr. Andow serves on the Standing Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology, Health, and the Environment for the National Academy of Sciences, which has overseen the publication of six books on the science of environmental and human health risks of genetic engineering. He recently served on the North American Free Trade Agreement Commission for Environmental Cooperation Article 13 Advisory committee, which published the report, Maize and Biodiversity: Effects of Transgenic Maize in Mexico, and is now working for the World Trade Organization as a scientific consultant to the Dispute Resolution Panel on European Communities—Measures Affecting the Approval and Marketing of Biotech Products. Dr. David A. Andow
Department of Entomology
University of Minnesota
St. Paul, MN 55108
DR. HENRY DANIELL
Henry Daniell is Pegasus Professor and Trustee Chair at the University of Central Florida and an elected member of the Italian Academy of Sciences (the 15th American national to be elected in the 222-year history of this academy; past members include Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein). Dr. Daniell is recognized for his pioneering inventions on chloroplast genetic engineering in plants. He developed and advanced this concept, which overcomes concerns of transgene containment, to confer new traits in plants such as resistance to herbicides, insects, and diseases and tolerance to drought and salt. Furthermore, the chloroplast genetic engineering concept has been used in his laboratory to produce several therapeutic proteins. Dr. Daniell is the technical founder of Chlorogen, Inc., and an inventor on more than 75 patents (awarded or in prosecution) in the United States and abroad. He has given invited presentations in more than fifty countries and organized international workshops on different continents. Dr. Daniell has received several awards for his teaching accomplishments. His forthcoming book Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Plant Organelles (Springer) includes 25 chapters contributed by pioneering authors from ten countries. Dr. Henry Daniell
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL 32816-2364
DR. PAUL GEPTS
Paul Gepts is professor of agronomy in the Department of Agronomy and Range Science at the University of California, Davis. His research and teaching program focuses on the evolution of plants under domestication and relies on a combination of genetic and genomic analyses, coupled with field work in centers of crop domestication, principally Latin America and Africa. Recent research conducted in Mexico has emphasized gene flow between wild and domesticated Phaseolus beans. He has taught courses on crop germplasm in Argentina and Italy, is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Society of Agronomy, has published some 70 research papers and 40 review papers or book chapters, and has edited one book. Dr. Gepts was a member of an Ecological Society of America (ESA) task force that wrote an ESA position paper, Genetically Engineered Organisms and the Environment: Current Status and Recommendations. He co-authored a background chapter assessing the effects of transgenic maize on maize diversity in Mexico for the NAFTA Commission on Environmental Cooperation. Most recently, he led an invited speaker seminar on “Regulatory Frameworks: Potential Invasiveness of Genetically Engineered Crops in the USA and International Centers of Biodiversity” at UC Davis. Dr. Paul Gepts
Department of Agronomy and Range Science
University of California
Davis, CA 95616-8515
DR. KENDALL R. LAMKEY
Kendall R. Lamkey is the Pioneer Distinguished Chair in Maize Breeding and Director of the Raymond F. Baker Center for Plant Breeding at Iowa State University in the Department of Agronomy. From 1984 to 2002, he was a research geneticist and lead scientist with the Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit of the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Ames, IA. Dr. Lamkey is a member of the cooperative federal-state corn breeding project on the Iowa State University campus, which has been instrumental in developing novel and useful germplasm widely used in the corn breeding industry. The main focus of Dr. Lamkey’s research has been quantitative genetics, recurrent selection methodology, and selection theory. Dr. Lamkey has a national and international reputation as an expert on corn quantitative genetics and selection response. He has authored or co-authored over 60 papers in refereed journals and numerous papers in conference proceedings, book chapters, published abstracts, and technical research reports. He is active in regional corn breeding meetings, has participated in the organization of several national and international conferences on heterosis and plant breeding, and has presented numerous invited lectures at national and international meetings. Dr. Lamkey has been a member of Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) since 1980 and has served four years as an associate editor, five years as a technical editor, and is currently editor of Crop Science. Dr. Lamkey was elected a fellow of CSSA in 2002. Dr. Kendall R. Lamkey
Department of Agronomy
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
DR. EMERSON D. NAFZIGER
Emerson D. Nafziger is Professor of Crop Production and Extension Agronomist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has conducted applied research and educational programs in production of corn, soybean, and other crops in Illinois since 1982. Dr. Nafziger’s expertise is in crop response to abiotic stress and to factors including crop rotation, tillage, planting technology, and pest and nutrient management. He has authored or co-authored 30 refereed publications, several book chapters, and the authoritative book Modern Corn and Soybean Production. Dr. Nafziger served as a volunteer for four years in an agricultural research and development program in Bangladesh and continues to consult on soybean introduction, management and development in South Asia. He is active in efforts to use large databases to formulate approaches to inputs such as seed and nitrogen fertilizer and is a fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and the Crop Science Society of America. Dr. Emerson D. Nafziger
Department of Crop Sciences
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801
MR. DENNIS STRAYER
Dennis Strayer has used over forty years of experience in the seed and food ingredient industries as a base for his consulting business. His experience includes seed corn production management with a multinational seed company and production and marketing management in a family seed and specialty crop food ingredient business. He received his B.S. degree in agronomy from Iowa State University in 1960. Mr. Strayer has been active in seed industry, seed certification, and soybean and corn commodity organizations. Consulting clients include growers, grower groups, seed companies, ingredient suppliers, food companies, and commodity organizations working on issues of management systems focused on quality, confinement, and traceability in agriculturally based supply chains. Mr. Strayer’s practical experience and expertise have been invaluable in the development and interpretation of management systems for application to production agriculture, as well as seed, food ingredient, and pharmaceutical crop supply chains. His recent publications and presentations in these areas include Identity-Preserved Systems: A Reference Handbook, CRC Press (2002); "Developing Quality Assurance Systems for Production Agriculture – A Users’ Guide for the USDA ‘Process Verified Program," Novecta (2004); and "Designing containment management systems for genetically modified organisms," 8th International Symposium on the Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms, Montpellier, FR (2004).
Dennis Strayer
Dennis Strayer & Associates
Hudson, IA 50643
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