[Seminar] Living in a GMO world
Wayne Parrott, University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia (USA)
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23 Sep, 2015
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10:00 am to 11:30 am |
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Seminar
Title: Living in a GMO world
Speaker: Wayne Parrott
Affiliation: Department of Crop & Soil Sciences and the Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics at The University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia (USA)
Host: Pedro Fevereiro, Plant Cell Biotechnology Laboratory
Wayne Parrott received a degree in agronomy from the University of Kentucky, and MS and PhD degrees in Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He joined the faculty at the University of Georgia in 1988. Since then he has been conducting research on the development, use and safety of transgenic (i.e., GM) crop plants, using grant monies from USDA-NIFA, NSF, DOE and the United Soybean Board. He has published a guide for environmental risk assessment of GMOs, along with over 90 journal articles in refereed publications and 14 book chapters. He has served terms on the editorial boards of Plant Cell Reports, Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture, and Crop Science. He has served as elected chair of the biotechnology section of the Crop Science Society of America and of the plant section of the Society for In Vitro Biology, and is a fellow of both of these societies. He is actively engaged in training graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and teaches graduate-level courses in genetics and undergraduate courses in agroecology and sustainable agriculture. He has traveled extensively throughout Latin America and other countries, and advised legislators and regulators in the various countries on the requisites for a functional regulatory system that ensures the safety of GM products. He volunteered for 6 years as a scientific advisor to the Biotechnology Committee of the International Life Sciences Institute, which served to bring the best science available to help guide those who formulate regulatory policies.
Parrott's laboratory conducts research on crop genetic engineering, although its members also use molecular markers as a tool for transgene deployment and work in gene discovery. The bulk of the work deals with the development of protocols for somatic embryogenesis and genetic transformation of soybean, switchgrass, alfalfa, rice and maize. We are part of the Department of Crop & Soil Sciences and the Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics at The University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia (USA)
