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| Experience and Education | Honors and Activities | Teaching | Publications | Other |
Carol Auer is Associate Professor in the Department of Plant Science at the University of Connecticut. Her current scholarly work focuses on policy and ecological risk assessment for genetically modified plants. Two projects are currently being conducted: 1) understanding transparency in government regulation of genetically modified crops; a comparative assessment of transparency and policy in the US and Australia, and 2) characterizing the potential for gene flow in ornamental plants including turfgrass species. She was awarded an AAAS Risk Policy Fellowship (2002-2003) and worked in the Office of Risk Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington DC. Carol recently received support (2005-2006) to study agricultural policy in Australia from the Bioethics Center, Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University.
An additional research component focuses on plant hormone biochemistry and plant development. Her research on the plant hormone cytokinin has included collaborative projects in the Czech Republic and Sweden.
Other activities include acting as Chairperson of the university’s Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC), and a teaching program that includes undergraduate and graduate courses on plant physiology and biotechnology. She also works on local conservation projects and serves on the conservation commission in her town. |
| PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS AND EDUCATION |
Associate Professor, University of Connecticut, Department of Plant Science - 1999 to present
Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, Department of Plant Science - 1993 to 1999
Postdoctoral Research Associate, USDA-ARS, Beltsville Agric. Research Center - 1991 to 1992
Ph.D. - Department of Botany, University of Maryland - 1990
M.S. - Department of Ornamental Horticulture, University of Florida
B.S. - Department of Horticulture, University of Maryland |
| RECENT HONORS AND SPECIAL ACTIVITIES |
Grant support from the Bioethics Center, Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University (2005 - 2006).
Recipient of an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Risk Policy Fellowship (2002 - 2003). Fellowship placement was in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Risk Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis (USDA-ORACBA), Washington, D.C.
Appointment as Chairperson of the Institutional Biosafety Committee for the University of Connecticut (2005-2008).
Gordon-Kenan Risk Analysis Summer School, August, 2003. An intensive two-week workshop on analytical methods for risk analysis by the Gordon Conferences.
Appointment as Assistant Editor for North America for the journal Plant Growth Regulation (1997-present). This is an international journal on plant growth and development.
Appointment as International Associate in the Swedish Centre for Forest Biotechnology and Chemistry (1998-2001) for research with Dr. Goran Sandberg, Swedish University of Agricultural Science.
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| TEACHING PROGRAM |
PLSC 216 - Plant Physiology: How Plants Work, Spring semester
PLSC 217 - Investigations in Plant Physiology, Spring semester
PLSC 305 - Physiology and Ecology of Trees, Co-instructor: Mark Rudnicki, Fall semester
PLSC 335 - Issues in Plant Biotechnolgy, Fall semester |
| RECENT PUBLICATIONS |
Jones, C., Madden, J., Auer, C. 2005. Modes of regeneration in Pelargonium x hortorum (Geraniaceae) and three closely related species. In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology - Plants 41:37-46
Auer, C.A. 2003. Tracking genes from seed to supermarket: Techniques and trends. Trends in Plant Science 8:591-597
Biotechnology-derived perennial turf and forage grasses: Criteria for evaluation. May, 2004. Council for Agricultural Science and Technology, www.cast-science.org
Workshop report: Extending the net fitness model to considerations of crop gene flow. January, 2004. Information Systems for Biotechnology, www.isb.vt.edu
Zhao, Q., Fisher, R., Auer, C. 2002. Developmental phases and STM expression during Arabidopsis shoot organogenesis. Plant Growth Regulation 37:223-231
Knapp, J.E., Kausch, A.P., Auer, C., Brand, M.H. 2001. Transformation of Rhododendron through microprojectile bombardment. Plant Cell Reports 20:749-754
Auer, C.A. 2002. Discoveries and dilemmas concerning cytokinin metabolism. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation
21:24-31
van der Graff, E., Auer C., Hooykaa PJJ. 2001. Altered development of Arabidopsis thaliana carrying the Agrobacterium tumefaciens ipt gene is partially due to ethylene effects. Plant Growth Regulation 34:305-315
Auer, C.A., Motyka, V., Brezinova, A., Kaminek, M. 1999. Endogenous cytokinin accumulation and cytokinin oxidase activity during shoot organogenesis of Petunia hybrida Vilm. Physiologia Plantarum 105:141-147
A full list of publications contains 17 peer-reviewed papers and 33 abstracts. |
| OTHER |
Recent Invited Presentations
"Beauty from Biotech: Risk assessment and regulation of GM plants for the American landscape."
Yale University Interdisciplinary Bioethics Projects, Institute for Social and Policy Studies, 2004
"GM crops in America: Environmental risk assessment, policy and hard choices."
UConn BioScience Seminar, 2004
"Environmental risk assessment and public information from USDA: A case study of Vector tobacco."
Chinese Delegation sponsored by US Trade and Development Agency, 2003
"Enhancing ecological risk assessments: Familiarity and substantial equivalence - theory and practice."
USDA-APHIS Biotechnology Regulatory Services workshop, 2003
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