Ohio Union
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
USA
Dr. Martina Newell-McGloughlin
Trying to avoid GMOs? We may need to return to a hunter-gatherer society; humans have been genetically modifying plants for around 10,000 years. Newell-McGloughlin addresses the many myths surrounding modern techniques developed to introduce desirable traits into crops and animals.
Martina Newell-McGloughlin directs the University of California System-wide Biotechnology Research and Education Program (UCBREP), which covers all ten campuses and three national Laboratories — Lawrence Livermore, Lawrence Berkeley and Los Alamos — a position that requires familiarity with state-of-the-art everything, from stem cells to nanotechnology research, across academia and industry.
She has vast experience in developing novel biotechnology research, training and education programs and in managing large multidisciplinary grants programs. She has published and edited numerous papers, articles, book chapters and three books on biotechnology.
Her own research is in the areas of disease resistance in plants, scale-up systems for industrial and pharmaceutical production in microbes and microbiological mining. She has a special interest in Developing World Research and is part of the USAID Applied Biotechnology Research Program.
Newell-McGloughlin travels worldwide for various organizations, including the U.S. State Department and the USDA, as an expert on biotech research and education issues. She was recently requested by the Gates Foundation to brief their directors; and by the Pontifical Academy of Science to brief the Vatican on future opportunities and challenges in Biotechnology.
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