Martina Newell-McGloughlin, D.Sc. Director - UC Systemwide Biotechnology Research and Education Program (UCBREP) Co-Director - NIH Training Program in Biomolecular Technology Adjunct Assistant Professor - Department of Plant Pathology Telephone:      (530) 752-8237 Fax: (530) 752-4125 E-mail: mmmcgloughlin@ucdavis.edu University of California, Davis 301 Life Sciences One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616 USA Curriculum Vitae Formal Presentations Current Classes Taught Outreach Activities

Martina Newell-McGloughlin, (Adj. Professor Department of Plant Pathology), directs the UC Systemwide Biotechnology Research and Education Program (UCBREP), which covers all ten campuses and the three national Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore, Lawrence Berkeley and Los Alamos. She is co-director of an NIH Training Grant in Biomolecular Technology, one of only three in California, the others being at Berkeley and Stanford. Prior to this she was director of the UC System Life Sciences Informatics program and the local UC Davis Biotechnology Program. She helped contribute to the formation of Science Foundation Ireland and is now a member of its Board of Directors.

Martina grew up on a small farm in Galway the West of Ireland where her sister Nuala still farms. Her father Jack tells the story of, when hearing that he had only three daughters, a visitor expressed the hope that at least Jack had a good dog!! Martina's sister went on to win, at the age of 18, the top prize for the best steer without canine assistance and subsequently dug the foundation for her own house (with a little mechanical assistance). Martina found work on the farm the most difficult and challenging of her life experiences. She took a somewhat indirect path to science when a pragmatic nun suggested that home economics was a more practical choice for girls and, in a move that presaged the rest of her life, she did the opposite.

In her position, she is required to be cognisant of the state-of-the-art in everything from stem cells to nanotechnology research across academia and industry. She has broad experience in developing novel biotechnology research, training and education programs and experience in managing large multidisciplinary grants programs. She has published numerous papers, articles, book chapters, two books on biotechnology, edited two and has a third in progress.

Her personal research experience has been in the areas of disease resistance in plants, scale-up systems for industrial and pharmaceutical production in microbes and microbiological mining. She has a special interest in Developing World Research and is part of the USAID Applied Biotechnology Research Program. She speaks frequently before scientific and other associations, testifies before legislative bodies, and enjoys working with the media. She travels worldwide for the US State Department on biotech research and education issues.

The UC Davis Academic Federation selected her to receive its 2001 James H. Meyer Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2003, the Council for Biotechnology named her one of the DNA Anniversary Year, Faces of Innovation among such luminaries as Norman Borlaug, Ingo Potrykus, Barbara McClintock and Roger Beachy, the pioneers and innovators behind the progress of plant biotechnology over the past 20 years. In 2005, she and Lester Crawford, FDA Commissioner, among others, were awarded the 'Irish America Lifescience Awards' as one of the top contributors to Irish American Life Science. Her science training is from Trinity College, Dublin; University College Dublin, and the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.