Achievement

Trainee Genya Dana successfully transitioned from student to professional through our IGERT. By conducting research and publishing with IGERT faculty and partners, Genya has become a well-known expert on risk assessment. Genya presented research results at the Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, Dec 2009; Society for Conservation Biology, Beijing China, Jul 2009; & NSF in Virginia, May 2009. Genya was invited to speak to classes at the University of Minnesota (UMN) Nov 2009, to EPA workers in North Carolina, Apr 2010 and to a laboratory in Beijing, China Jul 2009. Genya was the invited moderator for a symposium, Agriculture: Balancing Productivity and Conservation in a Changing Environment, UMN Feb 2010. She was the invited expert at the Risk Governance of Synthetic Biology, Geneva Switzerland October 2009. She now collaborates on synthetic biology with a Massachusetts Institute of Technology lab and started her own risk assessment company with trainee Leah Sharpe.