Seminar
Time:
Heuermann Lecture - Sally Mackenzie
Date:
3:30 pm
Hardin Hall
Room: 107 (Auditorium)
3310 Holdrege St
Lincoln NE 68583
Lincoln NE 68583
Additional Info: HARH
Contact:
(402) 472-2871
The first lecture of the 2013-2014 Heuermann Lectures season is with Sally Mackenzie presenting “Beyond GMOs to a More Honest Dialogue About Our Food.” A 3 p.m. reception precedes the lecture.
Dr. Mackenzie is the Ralph and Alice Raikes Chair for Plant Science in the Center for Plant Science Innovation (for which she was the founding director) here at UNL. She also is the Qiushi Chair Professor for Zhejiang University at Hangzhou, China, an elected fellow in both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Society of Plant Biologists, and an internationally known expert on this topic. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture and the School of Biological Sciences.
As we look to a projected world population growth of an additional 2 billion people in the next 40 years, understanding how the information and misinformation around GMOs affect perceptions and realities of food production and policy is vital. Dr. Mackenzie, whose research focus is in plant genetics, epigenetics, genomics and organelle biology, will discuss ways the debate about GMOs has obscured people’s ability to understand the true threats to the world’s future agricultural security. Noting crop genetics developments offer potential solutions to those threats, she’ll focus on the importance of honest, factual debate to inform consumers so that they can evaluate these technologies’ merits. She’ll also examine how this process has gone off track, and where misinformation has hijacked the debate.
Heuermann Lectures in IANR are free and open to the public. Heuermann Lectures focus on providing and sustaining enough food, natural resources and renewable energy for the world’s people, and on securing the sustainability of rural communities where the vital work of producing food and renewable energy occurs. They’re made possible by a gift from B. Keith and Norma Heuermann of Phillips. Lectures stream live at http://heuermannlectures.unl.edu, and are archived at that site shortly after the lecture.
Dr. Mackenzie is the Ralph and Alice Raikes Chair for Plant Science in the Center for Plant Science Innovation (for which she was the founding director) here at UNL. She also is the Qiushi Chair Professor for Zhejiang University at Hangzhou, China, an elected fellow in both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Society of Plant Biologists, and an internationally known expert on this topic. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture and the School of Biological Sciences.
As we look to a projected world population growth of an additional 2 billion people in the next 40 years, understanding how the information and misinformation around GMOs affect perceptions and realities of food production and policy is vital. Dr. Mackenzie, whose research focus is in plant genetics, epigenetics, genomics and organelle biology, will discuss ways the debate about GMOs has obscured people’s ability to understand the true threats to the world’s future agricultural security. Noting crop genetics developments offer potential solutions to those threats, she’ll focus on the importance of honest, factual debate to inform consumers so that they can evaluate these technologies’ merits. She’ll also examine how this process has gone off track, and where misinformation has hijacked the debate.
Heuermann Lectures in IANR are free and open to the public. Heuermann Lectures focus on providing and sustaining enough food, natural resources and renewable energy for the world’s people, and on securing the sustainability of rural communities where the vital work of producing food and renewable energy occurs. They’re made possible by a gift from B. Keith and Norma Heuermann of Phillips. Lectures stream live at http://heuermannlectures.unl.edu, and are archived at that site shortly after the lecture.