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Norman Ellstrand
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Norman Ellstrand,
Ph.D. is Professor of Genetics and Director of the Biotechnology Impacts Center at the University of California at Riverside (UCR). |
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Dr. Ellstrand received a Ph.D. in Biology from University of Texas at Austin in 1978. From 1978 to 1979 he worked as a Post-doctoral Scientist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. In 1979 he joined The Department of Botany & Plant Sciences at UCR. Dr. Ellstrand is an applied plant population geneticist whose research focuses on gene flow, hybridization, and their consequences, especially for the unintended spread, persistence, and impacts of plant transgenes. Dr. Ellstrand has served in a number of capacities associated with biosafety policy. He has provided biosafety information to a great number of groups, from members of the indsutry (e.g., Monsanto, Epicyte) to government bodies (e.g., U.S. Congressional staff, the State of California) to NGOS (e.g., the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology, Greenpeace). Dr. Ellstrand has been involved in a number of advisory groups using science to inform public policy on biosafety. For example, the National Research Council asked him to participate in several activities; of note is his membership on the committees that created the 2002 report "Environmental Effects of Transgenic Plants" and the 2004 report on "Biological Confinement". He was a co-author of the Edmonds Institute's biosafety manual. He is author of the book "Dangerous Liaison? When Cultivated Plants Mate with their Wild Relatives"(2003, Johns Hopkins University Press). |
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