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Pamela Ronald

Pamela Ronald

University of California, Davis

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Pamela Ronald is Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of California, Davis, where she studies the role that genes play in a plant’s response to its environment. Her laboratory has genetically engineered rice for resistance to diseases and flooding, both of which are serious problems of rice crops in Asia and Africa. She also serves as Vice President for the Feedstocks Division and Director of Grass Genetics at the Joint Bioenergy Institute.

Ronald received a B.A. from Reed College, an M.A. from Stanford University, an M.S. from the University of Uppsala in Sweden and her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1985. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University from 1990-1992. In 1992, Ronald joined UC Davis as a faculty member. Ronald and her colleagues are the recipients of numerous awards including the USDA 2008 National Research Initiative Discovery Award for their work on submergence tolerant rice. Ronald was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair and the National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Journalism Award. She is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2011, she was selected as one of the 100 most creative people in business by Fast Company Magazine. In 2012, Ronald was awarded the Louis Malassis International Scientific Prize for Agriculture and Food and the Tech Award for innovative use of technology to benefit humanity.

Ronald has also received acclaim for “Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetic and the Future of Food” a book she co-authored with her husband, Raoul Adamchak, an organic farmer. Bill Gates calls the book “a fantastic piece of work” and “important for anyone that wants to learn about the science of seeds and challenges faced by farmers”.

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Sustainable Agricultural Practices: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food

Pamela Ronald discusses the future of food including the importance of developing sustainable agricultural practices and using modern genetic approaches. (Talk recorded in September 2010)

Pamela Ronald
Audience:
  • Student
  • Researcher
  • Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
  • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 25:04

Engineering Resistance to Bacterial Infection and Tolerance to Environmental Stresses

Ronald discusses one of the greatest challenges of our time: how to feed the growing population in the presence of disease and environmental stresses that threaten the world’s crops. (Talk recorded in September 2010)

Pamela Ronald
Audience:
  • Researcher
  • Educators
  • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 00:39:45

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