Sofia Valenzuela Aguila is Professor of Forest Genomics at the University of Concepción, Chile. Her research interests include forest genomics, transgenic plants, biotechnology, and biosafety. She is also an avid writer who publishes opinion columns about these issues every two weeks in the Diario El Sur. Valenzuela Aguila received a biochemistry degree from the University of Chile, Santiago, and a doctorate from TU Braunschweig in Germany.
Will forests survive the threats of climate change? Could biotechnology and CRISPR be a useful tool? Four researchers ponder these questions, and leave us thinking more deeply about how we can make our forests more resilient. (Talk recorded in July 2020)
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