Appendix E

Invited Speakers Unavailable to Present to the Committee

This list of invited speakers includes those who were unavailable to present to the committee, who declined the committee’s invitation, and who did not respond to the committee’s invitation.

David Andow, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota

Rachel Bezner Kerr, Associate Professor of Development Sociology, Cornell University

Mark Bittman, Writer, The New York Times

Adam Bogdanove, Professor, Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University

Edward Buckler, Research Geneticist, U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service

Daniel Cahoy, Professor of Business Law, Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University

Amy Harmon, Journalist, The New York Times

Harry Klee, Professor, Horticultural Sciences Department and Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Florida

Susan McCouch, Professor, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University

Craig Mello, Distinguished Professor, Blais University Chair in Molecular Medicine and Codirector RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School

T. Erik Mirkov, Professor of Plant Molecular Virology, Texas A&M University

Bill Moseley, Professor and Department Chair of Geography, Macalester College

William Munro, Professor of Political Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

Kurt Nolte, Yuma County Extension Director, University of Arizona

Michael Pollan, Writer and Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism, University of California–Berkeley

Daphne Preuss, CEO, Chromatin Inc.

José Sarukhán, Coordinador Nacional, Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad

Ron Phillips, Regents’ Professor and McKnight Presidential Chair in Genomics, University of Minnesota

Rachel Schurman, Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota

Syngenta representative, Syngenta North America

Terry Torneten, Regional Extension Education Director, Iowa State University Extension

Sarah Zukoff, Assistant Professor of Entomology, Kansas State University