Steering Committee
Chair:
J.B. Sweet
National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), Cambridge, UK
Members:
K. Ammann
University of Bern, Botanical Garden, Bern, Switzerland
D. Bartsch
Centre for Agricultural Landscape and Land Use Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
B. Chevassus
INRA Laboratory of Fish Genetics, Jouy, France
J.C.M. den Nijs
University of Amsterdam, Institute for Systematics and Population Biology, Amsterdam, Netherlands
J. Husby
Direktoratet for naturforvaltning, Trondheim, Norway
R. Bagger Jørgensen
RISØE National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark
D. Mariotti
Istituto di Biochimica ed Ecofisiologia Vegetali CNR, Monterotondo Scalo, Rome, Italy
M.S. Pais
University of Lisbon, Dept of Plant Biology, Lisbon, Portugal
A. Pretova
Institute of Plant Genetics and Biotechnology, Nitra, Slovak Republic
S. Rakousky
Institute of Plant Molecular Biology AS CR, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
A. Wennström
Umea University, Dept of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umea, Sweden
Alternate Members
A. Depicker (to end 2001)
University of Ghent, Dept of Molecular Genetics, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Ghent, Belgium
M. De Loose (from 2002)
Centre for Agricultural Research-Gent, Dept of Plant Genetics and Breeding, Melle, Belgium
P. Van Cutsem
Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium
P. Dale
John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
A. Raybould (to end 2001)
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Furzebrook Research Station, Wareham, UK
Key words on Steering Committee members' expertise. See below.
Steering Committee Expertise
Steering Committee member | Areas of expertise |
Dr. Jeremy B. Sweet | Genetically modified plants, GM, risk assessment, environmental impact, agronomic impact, biodiversity effects, botanical diversity effects, gene flow, gene introgression, interspecific hybridisation, seed dispersal, gene stacking, herbicide tolerance, stress tolerance, high lauric acid. Co-ordination of GM research programmes. |
Dr. Klaus Ammann | Vertical gene flow, biogeographical assay, monitoring, long-term monitoring, documentation of risk assessment research. Biosafety committee of the Swiss government. Steering Group of International Conference of Biosafety Results of Field Tests, etc. Expert DG XII |
Dr. Detlef Bartsch | Biosafety research, plant population exology, fitness of transgenic plants, field experiments, Rizomania resistance, Wild beet, sugar beet, Genus Beta, Beta vulgaris, Zea mays, European Corn Borer, Ostrinia nubilalis, Bacillus thuringiensis, Bt-plants, insect resistance monitoring, RAPD-PCR, AFLP, Izozymes. |
Dr. Bernard Chevassus |
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Dr. Phil Dale (alternate member – UK) | Dr Phil Dale worked in agriculture for several years before graduating in Agricultural Botany and obtaining a doctorate in Plant Genetics. Following a period of plant breeding and genetics research at the Welsh Plant Breeding Station (1972-85), he became a Research Group Leader at the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge (1985-90), where he was involved in the first field release experiments with GM crops in the UK (1987 onwards). He led the PBI sector of the PROSAMO programme on transgenic crop risk assessment, and EU research programmes on biosafety assessment of GM crops. He moved to the John Innes Centre in Norwich in 1990, where he became a Research Group Leader in Genetic Modification and Biosafety Assessment. He currently leads several research programmes on GM crops, and is primarily involved with studying the behaviour and stability of transgenes and with assessments of the environmental impact of transgenic plants. In 1993, he was invited to become a member of the UK Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE), which advises the UK Government on the release of GM organisms into the environment. In 1998 he was invited to become a member of the UK Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes which advises the UK Government on the safety of novel foods, including those containing transgenic organisms. He is also an adviser to various international organisations on the assessment and application of GM crops and organisms in Europe and various parts of the world. |
Dr. J.C.M. (Hans) den Nijs | Fitness analysis, demographic modelling (matrix modelling), experimental ecology (transplant experiments in situ), allozyme genetic variation studies, diverse molecular marker systems (RAPD, AFLP, micro-satellites, sequence data), phylogenetic analysis (Cichorium and other groups). |
Professor Anna Depicker | Optimization of agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation, heterologous protein production in transgenic seeds and transgenic tubers, transgene silencing. |
Dr. Jan Husby | Expertise related to GM plants is within the regulation and management system, like regulation, risk assessments and measures in connection with possible environmental/ecological effects of deliberate and accidental release of GM plants. Not working with scientific research, but often designing assignments or tasks for scientific institutions related to environmental effects of GMO that his institute is founding. Scientific background is eco-physiology in fish. |
Dr. Rikke Bagger Jørgensen | Risk analysis of transgenic plants, crop-wild introgression, molecular markers (AFLP,SSR,ISSR, cpDNA etc.), biological containment, Brassica, Daucus, Avena, Lolium. |
Dr. Domenico Mariotti |
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Professor Maria Salome Pais | Plant molecular biology, plant genetic manipulation, crop improvement, woody species, mycorrhization, interference of homologous/ heterologous genes expression on mycorrhizas establishment, gene silencing (starting). |
Dr. Slavomir Rakousky | Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, selectable markers, reporter genes, plant tissue cultures, flax, deliberated release, GMO field evaluation. |
Dr. Alan Raybould (alternate member - UK) | Gene flow, population genetics, population dynamics, insect resistance, virus resistance, plant ecology. |
Professor Pierre Van Cutsem |
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Dr. Ivar Virgin | Risk assessment of GMOs, capacity building in developing countries, networking. |
