Panels featuring these speakers are listed below. To arrange interviews, contact Jill Goetz or Pam Kan-Rice at the addresses above or in the AAAS conference newsroom. Qualset co-organized the panel with Subodh Jain, UC Davis professor emeritus of agronomy, who offers an overview of developments in crop evolutionary sciences. Tomatoes are engineered to retard their spoilage.
Dairy cows receive hormones that boost their milk production.
In this session, panelists discuss developments in the genetic engineering of food from the perspectives of academia, private industry, consumers and the federal government. Alan B. Bennett, UC Davis associate dean and a specialist in tomato genes, describes the latest developments in genetic engineering of fruit, while Davis professor James Murray summarizes genetic enhancement of livestock. Susanne Huttner, director of UC's Systemwide Biotechnology Research and Education Program, discusses public perceptions of genetically engineered crops. David C. Campbell, director of the UC Davis-based California Communities Program, has tracked changes in the state's sustainable agriculture movement over the past two decades. He reviews its political evolution, focusing on the Community Alliance with Family Farmers, the movement's largest nonprofit organization.