Eating Genes: Global Ethics and Equity Issues in Genetically Modified Food and Sustainability
Lisa Weasel and Virginia Walbot
Thursday, 08 Nov 2007 at 7:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Lisa Weasel is an associate professor of biology at Portland State University. Her work draws on social science methodologies and perspectives from the humanities to better understand the intersection between science and society. Weasel's current research focuses on global ethics and equity issues relating to agricultural biotechnology and food security and sustainability. This research compares the standpoints of different stakeholders in the debates over agricultural biotechnology in Europe, Asia, Africa and the United States. Virginia Walbot is a professor of biological sciences at Stanford University. A broad theme of her research is the interplay of environment and development in the life cycle of plants. Walbot manages the NSF-funded Maize Gene Discovery project and is interested in how genomic diversity is created and how biochemical pathways are assembled through gene duplication and promoter evolution. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities series "The Book of Life in a Genomic Age."Cosponsored By:
- Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities
- Center for Integrated Animal Genomics
- Humanities Iowa
- Plant Sciences Institute
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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