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Norman Ellstrand
Adjunct Professor, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences
Mailing Address:
Botany and Plant SciencesBatchelor /4158
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521
Phone: (951) 827-4194
Fax: (951) 827-4437
Email: ellstrand@ucr.edu
Degree(s):
PhD 1978 University of Texas at AustinPhD 1974 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
College/Division Affiliation:
College of Natural and Agricultural SciencesCenter/Inst Affiliation(s):
Center for Conservation BiologyCenter for Disease Vector Research
Biotechnology Impacts Center
Stem Cell Center
Areas 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 EvolutionAwards / Honors:
2009 Botanical Society of America (BSA) 2009 Merit Award
2006 ISIHighlyCited, 2006-present
2005 Keynote speaker, North Central Weed Science Society Meeting on Crop Gene Flow and the Occurrence and Consequences of Gene Introgression between Crops and Their Sexually Compatible Relatives, Kansas City
2005 Staniforth Lecture, Iowa State University
2004 First Annual Darwin’s Birthday Speaker, Victory Valley College
2004 Manley Lecture, University of California, Santa Barbara
2004 Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award, University of California, Riverside
2003 Keynote speaker, European Science Foundation Meeting on Introgression from Genetically Modified Plants into Wild Relatives and its Consequences, Amsterdam
2002 Member, Advisory Group related to the Article 13 Report on Genetic Diversity of Maize in Mexico, Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America (a NAFTA side agreement organization)
2002 Member, National Research Council Committee on the Biological Confinement of Genetically Engineered Organisms
2000 AAAS Fellow (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
2000 Member, National Research Council Subcommittee on Environmental Impacts Associated with Commercialization of Transgenic Crops: Issues and Approaches to Monitoring
1998 Distinguished speaker, Ecological Genetics Group Meeting, St. Andrews, UK
1997 Graduate, ESCOP/ACOP Leadership Development Program
1993 J. William Fulbright Fellow
1992 National Science Foundation Mid-Career Fellow
1992 Award of Honor, California Cherimoya Association
1988 Eminent Ecologist, W. K. Kellogg Biological Station
1988 Commencement speaker, Department of Botany, University of California, Berkeley
1984 Researcher of the Year, California Rare Fruit Growers
Research Summary:
Dr. Ellstrand's research focuses on the environmental risks of agricultural biotechnology: specifically, the movement of transgenes into natural weed populations to produce corp-weed hybrids; hybridization as both a beneficial and detrimental factor in plant conservation; and gene flow as a factor in plant evolution.
Selected Publications:
Lab Personnel: +
- Lubinsky, Pesach
- Postgraduate Researcher —
- Garcia, Janet
- Graduate Student — The evolution of California’s wild artichoke, an invasive species
- Heredia, Silvia
- Graduate Student Researcher —
- Ridley, Caroline
- Graduate Student — The evolution of invasiveness in California wild radish
- Bacani, Onofre
- Undergraduate Student Researcher —