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Next Colloquium: Tuesday, 3/24 (via Zoom)

The future of protein production and its implications

Carlos Iglesias, Ph.D., Professor – Director Plant Breeding Consortium, NC State

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Innovations in food processing, together with synthetic biology, genomics and data analytics, are posed to disrupt the food protein market. The ripples could reach most areas related to food and agri-business globally. Read more >

Related:

World Resources Institute – https://wrr-food.wri.org

Publication – SYNTHESIS REPORT: Creating a Sustainable Food Future: A Menu of Solutions to Feed Nearly 10 Billion People by 2050

Speaker Bio

Dr. Carlos Iglesias grew up in a small farming community in SW Uruguay, getting his BSc at the University of Uruguay. He got his MSc and PhD in Plant Breeding at Iowa State University. Later in his career he got a MSc in Ag Econ from Purdue University and a MBA in Food and Agribusiness from Indiana University.

Carlos has experience in the public (University of Uruguay, and CIAT in Colombia) and private sectors (Weaver Popcorn and Syngenta). He has directly worked or managed programs in different species (corn, cassava, popcorn, wheat); and has experience in more developed agriculture production systems (North America, Brazil/Argentina), as well as production in less developed regions of the world (Sub-Saharan Africa). He is the creator of several varieties and hybrids still being grown, and his major focus has been in linking plant breeding to high value markets. Recently at Syngenta, he was managing the NA Wheat Business Unit, a self-sustain unit supported by royalties from the seed business.

LOOKING AHEAD: 3/31 VIRTUAL COLLOQUIUM

Tackling the Global Challenges of Emerging Plant Diseases

Emerging plant diseases threaten many foods crops including those we eat for breakfast such as coffee, oranges, banana and potatoes. Plant pathogens cause global losses estimated to be as high as $33 billion per year. Dr. Jean Ristaino will discuss the latest research on P. infestans, the pathogen that caused the Irish famine and other plant diseases and their impact on global food security Read more >
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Congratulations to Jennifer Kuzma! Dr. Kuzma's nomination for the 2020 Alumni Association Outstanding Research Award was submitted by the Office of Research and Innovation, and we are excited to announce that she been selected for the award and inducted into the Research Leadership Academy (RLA). As a member of the Academy, she will take an active role in promoting the research enterprise across campus for at least three years.
Jennifer Baltzegar PhD defense info
Please join us for GES IGERT Fellow Jen Baltzegar's PhD defense Wednesday, March 25th at 1 pm. Zoom link: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/934617716 
Wall Street Journal Health Forum
GES Sr. Research Scholar Dr. Todd Kuiken will speak at the Wall Street Journal Health Forum on March 24. It is now being held virtually and registration costs have been waived. Info at: https://healthforum.wsj.com

Publications

The distribution and spread of naturally occurring Medea selfish genetic elements in the United States

Sarah A. Cash, Marce D. Lorenzen, and Fred Gould. Ecol Evol, 2019; 9: 14407– 14416. doi: 10.1002/ece3.5876. Published: 27 November 2019. Download PDF
 

The impact of local population genetic background on the spread of the selfish element Medea‐1 in red flour beetles

Sarah A. Cash, Michael A. Robert, Marce D. Lorenzen, and Fred Gould. Ecol Evol,2020; 10: 863– 874. doi: 10.1002/ece3.5946. Published: 19 December 2019. Download PDF

Scenario analysis on the use of rodenticides and sex-biasing gene drives for the removal of invasive house mice on islands

Megan E. Serr, Rene X. Valdez, Kathleen S. Barnhill-Dilling, John Godwin, Todd Kuiken & Matthew Booker.  Biological Invasions (2020) pp 1-14. Published: 02 January 2020.
 

Articulating ‘free, prior and informed consent’ (FPIC) for engineered gene drives

Dalton R. George, Todd Kuiken, and Jason A. DelborneProc. Royal Soc. B. Vol. 286, Issue 1917. Published: 18 December 2019.
 

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