The safe and powerful technologies of genetic engineering have had tremendous impacts in agriculture and medicine. However, future innovation and deployment of beneficial technologies are slowed by a lack of understanding and insufficient science communication efforts.
This podcast is presented to help connect the public to current science and technology, and help scientists share the stories of how science can help our farmers, industrialized world consumers, the environment, and the Developing World. The hope is that this resource can entertain and explain how new tools can improve food security, reduce poverty, and improve agricultural and medical practices.
This podcast and website are produced and funded by Kevin Folta.
About Kevin Folta
Dr. Kevin M. Folta has a background in both biology and communications. Â He has studied biology and agricultural biotechnology for over thirty years, working exclusively in public academic institutions. Â His research program examines the role of light in controlling plant traits, especially those relevant to agriculture. Â His group is known for using innovative genomics approaches to identify genes associated with fruit quality, especially flavors and aromas.
He has been a professor at the University of Florida since 2002, and has been Chairman of the Horticultural Sciences Department since 2012.
His laboratory has hosted over 100 undergraduate researchers, dozens of international scholars, and trained many postdocs.  He has mentored dozens of graduate students.  His team has authored over 80 peer-reviewed research articles, scholarly reviews, and book chapters.
He has been recognized with the prestigious CAST Borlaug Agricultural Communications Award (2016), the NSF CAREER Award (2008), the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Outstanding Research Mentor Award (2007), the University of Florida Research Professor Award (2010), University of Florida Postdoctoral Mentoring Award (2012).
Throughout his career he has trained in communications, served as a instructor in these areas, and performed countless seminars and consultations on science communications.
Yes, it is true.  He was a waiter and busboy through college, he wrote and performed comedy, played guitar in a hair-metal/punk band in the 80’s, and was a bronze medalist in the Masters division of the USA National Karate Foundation championship in 2012.  Kevin also hates to refer to himself in the third person.
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