Media

Quoted in Grist Magazine, "The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for?" (September 13, 2023), co-published with Native News Online.

Featured in Target Malaria, "Why is developing a community agreement model for a genetically modified mosquito release important?" (May 24, 2023)

Featured in PBS Ecosense for Living, "Messing with Mother Nature" (April 24, 2023)

Quoted in Austin American-Statesman. "Should we bring back the wooly mammoth? SXSW experts talk ethics behind de-extinction" (March 16, 2023)

Quoted in MIT Technology Review,  "How CRISPR could help save crops from devastation caused by pests" (February 2, 2023)

Interviewed for From the Forest (WIOX Radio, Roxbury, NY). "Biotechnology and Forests with NC State's Jason Delborne'" (October 26, 2022)

Invited speaker, 9th International Conference on Wildlife Fertility Control: Creating Connections. "Engaging Stakeholders and Publics When Biotechnology Goes 'Wild'" (May 23, 2022)

Invited speaker, Science Communication Lab. "CRISPR, Climate Change, and Forest Health Panel" (February 3, 2022)

Announcement of appointment as Fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in College of Natural Resource News (January 26, 2022)

Featured in iBiology's film, Saving the American Chestnut: A Case Study (January 21, 2022)

Invited speaker, Center for Bioethics (Harvard Medical School) and Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnlogy, and Bioethics (Harvard Law School).  "A New Inheritance: Reshaping Our Environment with Gene Drives" (December 10, 2021)

Featured guest of The Received Wisdom Podcast, "Episode 20: Risk, Expertise, and the Power of Community Perspectives in Science and Technology" (October 5, 2021) [Interview begins at 17:20]

Featured in iBiology's film, The Future of Forests (September 1, 2021)

Featured in Outreach Network for Gene Drive Research, “How do local communities participate in gene drive research?” [video] (April 6, 2021) 

Interviewed for Applied Ecology News, “The Future of Wilderness” (January 7, 2021)

Mentioned in College of Agriculture and Life Sciences News (re-published in WRAL Tech Wire, EduBlog.News, Farms.com, and other outlets), “Using Leaf Fungi to Improve Crop Resilience” (June 30, 2020)

Presented at PA/NJ Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation's Spring Growers Meeting/Webinar, The Potential for Biotechnology to Address Forest Health (March 21, 2020)

Quoted in Associated Press (syndicated and re-published in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Minneapolis Star Tribune, and other outlets), “High-tech chestnuts: US to genetically altered tree” (November 6, 2019)

Interviewed for BioScience Talks, the podcast of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, “Threshold-Dependent Gene Drives in Wild Populations” (October 8, 2019) 

Quoted in College of Natural Resources News, “Public Support for Gene Drives in Agriculture Tied to Limits” (September 11, 2019) [republished in Science Daily, Futurity, Phys.org, and WRAL TechWire]

Featured in The Academic Minute [podcast] (July 8, 2019), played on WAMC radio and published on Inside Higher Ed. 

Featured in College of Natural Resources News, “Can Genetic Engineering Save Our Planet’s Biodiversity?” (June 24, 2019) 

Quoted in Independent, “Plan to plant genetically engineered trees throughout the US to save dying forests” (February 16, 2019) 

Essay published in The Conversation, “Can genetic engineering save disappearing forests?” (January 18, 2019) (republished by at least 24 outlets, including Discover Magazine, Newsweek, and the San Francisco Chronicle/SF Gate)

Quoted in Scientific American, “Biotech Could Modify Trees to Protect against Pests” (January 10, 2019)

Featured in ECOS eNews (published by CSIRO), “Transparency in science: Talking about the potential of gene editing for conservation” (December 11, 2018) 

Quoted in Gizmodo, “Scathing Report Accuses the Pentagon of Developing an Agricultural Bioweapon” (October 4, 2018) 

Quoted in 合成生物学の衝撃 (The Impact of Synthetic Biology, 2018), book written by Momoko Suda, Japanese visiting fellow to the Genetic Engineering and Society Center in 2016-17.

Quoted in New York Times, “Gene Drives are too Risky for Field Trials, Scientists say” (November 16, 2017) 

Quoted in Quanta, “New Model Warns about CRISPR Gene Drives in the Wild” (November 16, 2017) 

Quoted in Gizmodo, “Genetically Engineering the Natural World, it Turns Out, Could Be a Disaster” (November 16, 2017)

Mentioned in Scientific American, “Could Genetic Engineering Save the Galapagos?” (November 1, 2017) 

Quoted in Scientific American, “Can Scientists Convince the Public to Accept CRISPR and Gene Drives?” (October 1, 2017) 

Quoted in New York Times, “Species-wide Gene Editing, Applauded and Feared, Gets a Push” [first published as “Panel Endorses ‘Gene Drive’ Technology That Can Alter Entire Species”] (June 8, 2016) 

Quoted in Science Magazine, “U.S. Academies gives cautious go-ahead to gene drive” (June 8, 2016) 

Quoted in Associated Press (syndicated and re-published in many outlets), “Malaria-proof mosquito? Tool promising but needs more study” (June 8, 2016)

Featured in NC State News, “Keeping up with the fast-moving science of gene drives” (June 8, 2016)