Mike Paustian and his family have a farrow-to-finish hog farm near Walcott, Iowa, and market 28,000 head annually. His family also grows 1,400 acres of corn and soybeans. He received a B.S in microbiology at Iowa State University and a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Minnesota after which he worked as a research […]
Jim Goodman is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Platteville with a bachelor’s degree in animal science. He also holds a master’s degree in reproductive physiology from South Dakota State University. He and his wife, Rebecca, ran a 45-cow organic dairy and direct-market beef farm in southwest Wisconsin for 40 years. Jim was a 2008-2009 […]
Julie Borlaug brings knowledge of external partnerships, communications, and corporate relations, following in the footsteps of Norman E. Borlaug, her grandfather, to expand his mission to feed the world’s hungry. Prior to joining Inari, Julie served as associate director of external relations at the Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture. She also handled strategic initiatives for […]
Chuck Klosterman is the best-selling author of eight nonfiction books (most notably “Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs” and “But What If We’re Wrong?”) and three works of fiction (most recently the short story collection “Raised in Captivity”). He has written for the Washington Post, The New York Times, SPIN, Esquire, GQ, The Guardian, The Believer, […]
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Hille Haker, Ph.D., has held the Richard McCormick S.J. Endowed Chair of Catholic Ethics at Loyola University Chicago since 2010, after holding professorships at Frankfurt University in Germany and Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She served on several bioethics committees, including the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies to the European […]
Over the past five years, Joan Fujimura has led an interdisciplinary team based at UW-Madison in the collection and analysis of data from five research sites that use or develop human genetic variation categories. The project aims to examine where, when, and how group categories are used in genomics as well as whether, and if […]
Dr. Mark Behlke has directed R&D at IDT since 1995. He is also a scientific co-founder of Dicerna Pharmaceuticals in Boston. Before joining IDT, he was a physician postdoctoral fellow of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the Whitehead Institute, MIT, and a resident physician in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Mark received […]
Brad Swail started The Deletion Duplication Alliance with his wife, Laura, as part of their mission to find new and emerging technologies to help their son, who was diagnosed with 8p inverted deletion duplication syndrome. While an ultra-rare diagnosis like that one felt like a punch to the gut at first, Brad is highly motivated […]
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