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Appendix B: Participant Biographies
Appendix B: Participant Biographies
Pages 33-45
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His research interests include the ecology of insects in agricultural systems, resistance management for transgenic plants, conservation of the Karner blue butterfly, and biotechnology science policy. He served on the Agricultural Biotechnology Research Advisory Committee (ABRAC)
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He has been president and is now chairman of the board for the Coffee County Conservation Tillage Alliance. Phil Dale is head of the Genetic Modification and Biosafety Research Group at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK.
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He participated in the National Academy of Sciences 1972 report on genetic vulnerability in major crops and chaired the Committee on Managing Global Genetic Resources, which published two reports in 1991 and two more in 1993. He was also a member of the National Institutes of Health Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee from 1976 to 1979; it developed the first national guidelines for rDNA research.
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Her research involves consumer risk perception and communication, including the underpinnings of public resistance to genetically modified foods. She is developing and applying psychologic methods to the understanding of consumer attitudes toward emerging food technologies with the long-term goals of effectively involving the public in the decision-making process and increasing public confidence in government regulators.
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He is a member of the American Psychological Association, the American Evaluation Association, and the Society for Risk Analysis and has served as a consultant to state and federal agencies, utilities, industry associations, private corporations, and nonprofit groups.
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Mark Lipson is the policy program director for the Organic Farming Research Foundation in Santa Cruz, CA. His work there since 1995 has been focused on federal agricultural research policy and cultivating institutional support for organic farming research and education.
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Since 1983, he has been a partner in a multifamily organic farming enterprise near Davenport, CA. He was chairman of the California Organic Foods Advisory Board from 1991 to 1998.
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lohn Pleasants is a temporary assistant professor in the Zoology and Genetics Department at Iowa State University, where he teaches evolution and Web-based courses in introductory biology and environmental biology. His current research involves monitoring monarch butterfly use of milkweed in agricultural and nonagricultural habitats and assessing the potential levels of Bt corn pollen deposition on milkweed plants in and near Bt cornfields.
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Dr. Power is a fellow of the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program of the Ecological Society of America, a member of the Oversight Committee of the McKnight Foundation Crop Collaborative Research Program, and a member of the Technical Committee of the Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources Management Collaborative Research Support Program of the US Agency for International Development.
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She has published extensively on the ecological implications of genetically modified crops and has been an associate editor of Ecology and Evolution. She recently served on the steering committee for the US Department of Agriculture workshop on the ecological effects of pestresistance genes in managed ecosystems and on the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee on Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants.
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She chairs the National Plant Pathology Board of the American Phytopathological Society and the Food and Agriculture Committee of the American Society for Microbiology's Public and Scientific Affairs Board. She is a former member of USDA's National Agricultural, Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board and serves on the Board of Directors of USDA's Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialization Corporation.
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Mr. Winkles is now serving on the US Department of Agriculture Advisory Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology, appointed by Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman.
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APPENDIX B 45 University, Extension Committee, in 1997-1998 and is now on the Clemson University Public Service and Agriculture Advisory Board. He also is president of D
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