Outreach Activities of the Program Director
Sorted by Year & Dates

• Date(s): 6/18/2005 – 6/26/2005; Ethiopia, US Department of State - Briefings and Presentations on Economic Security, Benefits and Opportunities of using AG Biotech in Africa
   
• Date(s): 6/16/2005 – 6/17/2005; BioLink USA-Ireland Conference & Reception of Inaugural Irish America Lifescience Awards
   
• Date(s): 5/20/2005 – 5/29/2005; Japan & Korea, International Life Sciences Institute - ILSI - Nutritional & Safety Assessment of Biotechnology in Food & Feed Production
   
• Date(s): 5/16/2005; Petaluma, CA - Petaluma Farm Bureau 19th Annual Community Luncheon
   
• Date(s): 4/26/2005; Venture Connect, New York City, NY - Leveraging the VC/University Relationship for Bio Commercialization
   
• Date(s): 4/22/2005; International Sprout Growers Association ISGA Convention - Genetic Engineering Panel, San Francisco, CA
   
• Date(s): 4/19/2005; Consortium for Science and Society CSAS Organizational Meeting, Chicago, IL
   
• Date(s): 4/15/2005; Keynote Speaker at the Fresno Farm Bureau 88th Annual Banquet, Fresno, CA
   
• Date(s): 3/24/2005; Sacramento Entrepreneurship Academy Showcase, Sacramento, CA
   
• Date(s): 3/17/2005; St Patrick's Day Reception for Taoiseach, Washington DC, Ireland-American Economic Advisory Board Meeting
   
• Date(s): 3/8/2005 – 3/10/2005; New Orleans, LA - Society of Toxicology 44th Annual Meeting & Symposium
   
• Date(s): 3/2/2005; California Farm Bureau Federation Meeting, Sacramento, CA
   
• Date(s): 2/18/2005 – 2/27/2005; Science Foundation Ireland - SFI, Dublin, Ireland
   
• Date(s): 1/22/2005 – 1/30/2005; Italy, State Department - Agricultural Biotechnology
   
• Date(s): 1/9/2005 – 1/10/2005; National Institutes of Health - HHMI - Biomedical Imaging and Bio-Engineering Briefing, Washington, D.C.
   
• Date(s): 11/18/2004; Solano Community College, Lecture on AG Biotech, Fairfield, CA
   
• Date(s): 11/7/2004; USDA, NCFAP Meeting, Dublin, Ireland
   
• Date(s): 11/5/2004 – 11/9/2004; Science Foundation Ireland - SFI, Dublin, Ireland
   
• Date(s): 10/29/2004; Butte College Presentation on AG Biotech, Butte College, Oroville, CA
   
• Date(s): 10/28/2004; American Chemists Society Western Conference, Sacramento, CA
   
• Date(s): 10/26/2004; Congress Biotech Gilead Sciences, Foster City, CA
   
• Date(s): 10/2/2004 – 10/9/2004; Chile, State Department - Economic Security
   
• Date(s): 9/24/2004; Quantum Dot Company Visit, Hayward, CA
   
• Date(s): 9/21/2004 – 9/22/2004; Council Biotech, Des Moines, IA, Taste the Future Briefing
   
• Date(s): 9/15/2004; Capitol Hill Day, Science Foundation, Ireland, Washington DC - Joint Steering Committee for Public Policy
   
• Date(s): 8/22/2004 – 8/28/2004; Mexico, State Department - Economic Security
   
• Date(s): 8/20/2004; Epitomics & Full Moon Biosystems Company Visit, Burlingame & Sunnyvale, CA
   
• Date(s): 8/1/2004 – 8/16/2004; Science Foundation Ireland - SFI, Dublin, Ireland
   
• Date(s): 7/12/2004 – 7/14/2004; Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting and Food Expo Las Vegas, NV
   
• Date(s): 6/10/2004 – 6/11/2004; Biotechnology and Farmers Desk-Side Briefings Chicago, IL
   
• Date(s): 6/6/2004 – 6/9/2004; BIO (Biotechnology Industry Organization) Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA
   
• Date(s): 5/9/2004; USAID/USDA New Examples of CGIAR/U.S. Research Partnerships: Davis, CA
   
• Date(s): 5/4/2004 – 5/5/2004; Biolink USA - Ireland Conference, San Francisco, CA
   
• Date(s): 4/15/2004 – 4/21/2004; Science Foundation Ireland - SFI, Dublin, Ireland
   
• Date(s): 4/8/2004; CSU Stanislaus,Turlock, CA, Semi-Annual Agriculture Studies Speaker Series at CSU Stanislaus
   
• Date(s): 4/4/2004; Conference to Explore Genetically Modified Food, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
   
• Date(s): 3/11/2004; Steinbeck Center AG Biotech Presentation, Salinas, CA
   
• Date(s): 3/4/2004; UC Connect Life Sciences Bio Summit Sacramento, CA
   
• Date(s): 2/27/2004 – 2/28/2004; Fourth Annual Expanding Your Horizons Conference, Tulare, CA
   
• Date(s): 1/30/2004 – 2/7/2004; Science Foundation Ireland - SFI, Dublin, Ireland
   
• Date(s): 1/29/2004; Bio-defense to Cancer Offense: A Tech Transfer Conference, Stockton, CA
   
• Date(s): 12/17/2003 – 12/19/2003; International Life Sciences Institute and Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development meeting, Paris, France
   
• Date(s): 12/4/2003; The Regional Institute for Health & Environmental Leadership Symposium, "At Issue: Genetically Modified Organisms, Human Health and the Environment." Denver, CO.
   
• Date(s): 11/15/2003 – 11/18/2003; Kiev, Russia, USDA , State Department - Economic Security
   
• Date(s): 11/7/2003 – 11/8/2003; Transgenics and the Poor, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
   
• Date(s): 11/3/2003 – 11/4/2003; ABSPII Consortium Conference Cornell University. UC BREP participation was supported by the ABSPII. Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project II (ABSPII) believes that farmers and consumers worldwide should have the opportunity to make informed choices about using bio-engineered products.
   
• Date(s): 10/29/2003; BayBio Gene Acres 2003, Bioscience: Coming of Age, South San Francisco Conference Center
   
• Date(s): 10/23/2003 – 10/24/2003; Institute of Food Technologists Paseo,WA.
   
• Date(s): 10/17/2003 – 10/20/2003; European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg Forum on the Biosciences and Society Heidelberg, Germany
   
• Date(s): 9/23/2003 – 9/24/2003; Governor's Life Sciences Summit, M.I.N.D. Institute in Sacramento, CA
   
• Date(s): 9/8/2003; World Affairs Council Panel Debate September San Francisco, CA
   
• Date(s): 9/3/2003 – 9/4/2003; Monsanto Tour of Parma Corn, Fresno, CA
   
• Date(s): 7/12/2003 – 7/16/2003; Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting and Food Expo Chicago, IL
   
• Date(s): 7/8/2003 – 7/9/2003; US Army Biotechnology Roundtable, Baltimore, MD
   
• Date(s): 6/25/2003 – 7/2/2003; Manila Phillipines, US Embassy, State Department - Economic Security
   
• Date(s): 6/24/2003; USDA Agricultural Science and Technology's Ministerial Conference on Agricultural Science & Technology Sacramento, CA
   
• Date(s): 6/11/2003 – 6/12/2003; American Enterprise Institute - AEI Washington, DC
   
• Date(s): 6/8/2003 – 6/10/2003; USDA's Biotech Risk Assessment Research Grants Program Workshop Washington, DC
   
• Date(s): 6/1/2003 – 6/5/2003; Many Voices Conference, Ag Biotechnology, San Francisco, CA
   
• Date(s): 5/30/2003 – 5/31/2003; Agriculture Biotech Council - ABC Seattle, WA
   
• Date(s): 5/28/2003 – 5/29/2003; Bayer Crop Science Confernce, Raleigh, NC
   
• Date(s): 5/15/2003 – 5/16/2003; Food Foresight Conference, Santa Rosa, CA
   
• Date(s): 5/13/2003 – 5/14/2003; Emperial Valley Seed Annual Conference, Spokane, WA
   
• Date(s): 5/5/2003 – 5/9/2003; AG Biotech Presentation at University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HW
   
• Date(s): 4/27/2003 – 4/30/2003; Biotechnica USA Conference, Monterey, CA
   
• Date(s): 4/15/2003 – 4/17/2003; International Life Sciences Institute - ILSI - Washington, DC
   
• Date(s): 3/31/2003 – 4/2/2003; World Bank Meeting, New York City, NY
   
• Date(s): 3/25/2003 – 3/27/2003; Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting and Food Expo Boise, ID
   
• Date(s): 3/17/2003 – 3/23/2003; Science Foundation Ireland - SFI, Dublin, Ireland
   
• Date(s): 3/11/2003 – 3/12/2003; World Bank, Washington, DC
   
• Date(s): 3/7/2003 – 3/8/2003; Symposium on Stress Proteins, From Heat Shock to Antifreeze, Bodega, CA
   
• Date(s): 3/1/2003 – 3/6/2003; New Zealand, State Department - Economic Security
   
• Date(s): 2/27/2003; UC Connect Conference, Sacramento, CA
   
• Date(s): 2/26/2003; Livermore LifeSciences Conference 2003, Livermore, CA
   
• Date(s): 2/5/2003 – 2/7/2003; US Army Biotech Roundtable, Aberdeen, ML
   
• Date(s): 2/3/2003 – 2/4/2003; International Life Sciences Institute - ILSI - Washington, DC
   
• Date(s): 1/13/2003 – 1/14/2003; Hill's Pet Nutrition Symposium, Witchita, KN
   
• Date(s): 12/9/2002; Enterprise Ireland on Ag Biotech, Palo Alto, CA
   
• Date(s): 12/3/2002; State of California Governor's Life Science Summit, Menlo Park, CA
   
• Date(s): 11/13/2002 – 11/15/2002; BioIreland 2002 Conference, Dublin, Ireland
   
• Date(s): 11/11/2002 – 11/20/2002; Science Foundation Ireland - SFI, Dublin, Ireland
   
• Date(s): 10/23/2002; CB-SIG Santa Clara, CA
   
• Date(s): 10/9/2002 – 10/17/2002; Biotechnology in Animal Farming, Royal Society, London
   
• Date(s): 10/7/2002 – 10/9/2002; International Life Sciences Institute - ILSI - Washington, DC
   
• Date(s): 9/23/2002 – 9/24/2002; Structural Genomics Conference, Laguna Beach, CA
   
• Date(s): 9/19/2002 – 9/20/2002; Cancer Symposium, Sacramento, CA
   
• Date(s): 8/21/2002 – 8/27/2002; Taiwan, USDA , State Department - Economic Security
   
• Date(s): 8/20/2002; World Ag Expo, NAMA Conference,Tulare, CA
   
• Date(s): 8/19/2002; UC BREP & AG Biotech Presentation, Monsanto, Calgene Campus, Davis, CA
   
• Date(s): 7/23/2002; Biotechnology Good to Grow Roundtable, Hyatt Regency, Sacramento, CA
   
• Date(s): 6/15/2002; Women Chemists Committee, UC Berkeley, American Chemical Society 2002 Special Meeting
   
• Date(s): 5/16/2002; Presented at Agri Food Symposium National University of Ireland, Bio Tools for the Future, Dublin, Ireland
   
• Date(s): 4/17/2002; Biotechnology Update - Southern California Section at the Institute of Food Technologists' Distinguished Lecturer Series, Los Angeles, CA
   
• Date(s): 4/15/2002 – 4/16/2002; Organic Farming vs. Traditional Farming/Biotechnology at The World Bank Conference, Washington, DC
   
• Date(s): 4/11/2002 – 4/12/2002; UC Biomedical Research at the Biotechnology Media Roundtable, UC San Francisco sponsored by Manning, Selvage & Lee, San Francisco, CA
   
• Date(s): 4/3/2002; SAGE KQED forum, Student Achievement Guided by Experience, San Francisco, CA
   
• Date(s): 3/13/2002 – 3/15/2002; Institute of Food Technologists' Biotechnology Position at the Institute of Food Technologists’ Distinguished Lecturer Series, Sun Valley,ID
   
• Date(s): 3/5/2002; US Policy Forum on Biotechnology, GM Crop Adoption Seminar Is Europe being left behind? Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, England
   
• Date(s): 3/3/2002 – 3/4/2002; BioMedical Technology at the U.S. State Department & Meridian International's Perspectives on the Future of Biotechnology: A Scientific Dialogue conference, Washington, DC
   
• Date(s): 2/23/2002 – 2/24/2002; Stem Cells, Human Cloning, and Animal Organ Transplants: New Business Models for a Genetically Engineered World at the National Chamber Foundation's Annual Business Horizon Retreat sponsored by the US Chamber of Commerce, Boca Raton, FL
   
• Date(s): 2/19/2002; What is the UC Systemwide Biotechnology Research and Education Program, at the Sacramento Valley Forum's Breakfast meeting in Sacramento, CA
   
• Date(s): 2/13/2002; International Outlook on Genetically Engineered Food at the World Agricultural Exposition sponsored by the Center for International Trade Development in Tulare, CA
   
• Date(s): 2/3/2002; Policy Dialogue, Environmental Savior or Saboteur? Debating the impacts of genetic engineering National Policy Forum at the PEW Initiative on Food and Biotechnology, San Francisco, CA
   
• Date(s): 1/29/2002 – 2/3/2002; The Next Generation of Biotech Crops - Value Added Traits at the American Soybean Association/Bayer Biotechnology Conference in Darmstadt, Germany