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Editor-in-Chief and Chair of the ISBR Publications Committee   |   Editorial Office   |   Members of the Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief and Chair of the ISBR Publications Committee

Mark TEPFER, ICGEB Biosafety Outstation, Italy
Impact of genetically modified plants; plant-virus interactions; virus-resistant
transgenic plants; plant virus evolution

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Members of the Editorial Board

David ANDOW*, Dept. of Entomology Univ. of Minnesota, USA
Population and community ecology, agricultural ecology, ecological risk assessment

Klaus AMMANN*, Univ. of Bern Botanical Garden, Switzerland
Biosafety of transgenic plants, especially gene flow, discursive methods in the debate on genetic engineering

Kornelia SMALLA§, Federal Biological Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry, Institute for Plant Virology, Microbiology and Biosafety, Germany
Microbial diversity; molecular monitoring techniques; antibiotic resistance and mobile genetic elements

Alan McHUGHEN§, University of California, Riverside, USA
Gene tansfer, including gene flow; mitigation strategies, with a plant focus

Rikke BAGGER-JORGENSEN, RISO National Laboratory, Denmark
Introgression, fitness, gene expression (in particular in relation to crop-wild crosses); ethics in relation to the use of GMOs

Ervin BALÁZS, Dept. of Applied Genomics, Agricultural Research Center, Hungary
Plant-virus interactions; virus-resistant transgenic plants; plant virus evolution in relation to ecological impacts

Norman ELLSTRAND, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
Plant population genetics; impacts of gene flow and hybridization; evolution of weediness and invasiveness; extinction by hybridization

Lynn FREWER, Dept. of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, University of Wageningen, The Netherlands
Risk perception; risk communication; consumer attitudes to biotechnology; consumer behavior

Terrance M. HURLEY, Dept. of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, USA
Socio-economic aspects of environmental risk assessment; risk management; bioeconomic simulation modeling; regulation of plant-incorporated protecants

Pierre-Benoît JOLY, Dept. of Environment, Techniques, Societies, Economical Politics, National Institute for Agronomic Research, France
Sociology and economics of innovation, technology, assessment; public participation; governance of biotechnology

Anne KAPUSCINSKI, Institute for Social, Economic, and Ecological Sustainability, University of Minnesota, USA
Biosafety of transgenic fish and other aquatic organisms; biosafety policy and regulations; proactive systems approach to biosafety; DNA-based monitoring techniques; sustainable aquaculture

Deborah K. LETOURNEAU, Dept. of Environmental Studies, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Entomology; community ecology; trophic cascades; insect-plant interactions; tropical ecology; biosafety of transgenic plants

Bao-Rong LU, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, China
Biosafety assessment on environmental risks; gene flow between wild and cultivated plant species; biosystematic relationships of crops and wild relatives

William MUIR, Dept. of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, USA
Population, quantitative, and molecular genetics; genetic methods to improve adaptability, stress resistance, and animal well-being; the interface of quantitative and molecular genetics, including use of molecular markers in breeding programs and transgenics; methods for biotechnology risk assessment

Joachim SCHIEMANN, Federal Biological Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry, Institute for Plant Virology, Microbiology and Biosafety, Germany
Environmental risk assessment; inherent biosafety of transgenic plants (elimination of marker genes, site-specific genetic modifications, etc.); biosafety aspects of molecular farming

Bruce E. TABASHNIK, Dept. of Entomology, University of Arizona, USA
Evolution of insect resistance to genetically modified crops; environmental impacts of transgenic Bt cotton on target and non-target arthropods; risk assessment of biocontrol agents; invasive alien species

Jan Dirk VAN ELSAS, Groningen University, The Netherlands Horizontal gene transfer in bacteria.
Gene transfer from plants to bacteria. Effects of GMO's on microbial systems. Soil microbiology. Molecular tools in microbial ecology. Microbial diversity in soil and other ecosystems.

 



* Associate Chair of the ISBR Publications Committee
§ Member of the ISBR Publications Committee