BIC People
Biotechnology Impacts Center
- Jorge Aguero
- Assistant Professor
- Economics
- Area of Expertise: Development Economics; Discrimination; Agricultural Economics
- Peter Atkinson
- Professor; Director, Center for Disease Vector Research; Director, Cell, Molecular & Developmental Biology Graduate Program
- Entomology
- Area of Expertise: Structure and Function of Transposons; Mosquito Genomics with Emphasis on the Culex Genome Project; Gene Drive in Mosquitoes; Environmental Impacts of GMO Release with Respect to Insects; The Use of Transposons in Human Gene Therapy
- Nancy Beckage
- Professor of Entomology, Cell Biology & Neuroscience
- Entomology
- Area of Expertise: Physiological and Molecular Host-parasite Relationships; Insect Immunity, Pathology, Virology, Endocrinology, and Behavior; Vector Biology, Physiology, and Vector-parasite Interactions; Host-parasitoid Interactions
- Christopher Chase-Dunn
- Distinguished Professor of Sociology; Director, Institute for Research on World-Systems
- Sociology
- Area of Expertise: Globalization; Political Economy; Geopolitics; Technology and Society; Evolution
- Carl Cranor
- Professor of Philosophy
- Philosophy
- Area of Expertise: Risk Assessment; Regulatory and Personal Injury Law; Philosophy of Use of Science in the Law
- Norman Ellstrand
- Professor of Genetics; Adjunct Professor, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences
- Botany and Plant Sciences
- Area of Expertise: Unplanned Transgene Movement via Pollen and Seeds and Consequences of Such Gene Flow; Science to Inform the Evolution of Public Policy Regarding Transgenic Crops; Transgene Confinement; Transgene Evolution
- Brian Federici
- Professor of Entomology
- Entomology
- Area of Expertise: Bacillus thuringiensis; Baculoviruses; Medical Entomology; Genetic Engineering of Bacteria and Viruses
- Tao Jiang
- Professor
- Computer Science and Engineering
- Area of Expertise: Computational Molecular Biology; Bioinformatics; Combinatorial Algorithms
- Bai-lian (Larry) Li
- Professor of Ecology
- Botany and Plant Sciences
- Area of Expertise: Quantitative Plant Ecology; Ecological Complexity and Modeling; Theoretical and Mathematical Ecology; Systems Ecology; Landscape Ecology; Computational Biology; Ecological Informatics
- Alan McHughen
- Cooperative Extension Plant Biotechnologist
- Botany and Plant Sciences
- Area of Expertise: Use of Biotechnology for Improved Crop Production and Environmentally Sustainable Cropping Systems; Biotechnology Product Analysis for Effects on Environment and Health
- Thomas Miller
- Professor of Entomology
- Entomology
- Area of Expertise: Circulatory system of insects; Physiology of Cotton Pests; Genetic Control of Insects; Insect Symbiosis
- Jerome Schultz
- Distinguished Professor and Chair
- Bioengineering
- Area of Expertise: Biosensors; Transport Processes in Tissues; Pharmacokinetics; Immobilized Enzymes; Biomaterials; Membrane-based Separations
- Richard Sutch
- Distinguished Professor of Economics; Director, Biotechnology Impacts Center; Director, Center for Social and Economic Policy
- Economics
- Area of Expertise: Economic History; Macroeconomics; Immigration; Public Policy; Economic and Policy Implications of Agricultural Biotechnology and Immigration