| Open Letter from
World Scientists to All Governments Concerning Genetically Modified
Organisms (GMOs) |
Dr. David Bellamy, Biologist and Broadcaster, London, UK Prof. Liebe Cavalieri, Mathematical Ecologist, Univ. Minnesota, USA Dr. Thomas S. Cox, Geneticist, US Dept. of Agriculture (retired), India Dr. Tewolde Egziabher, Spokesperson for African Region, Ethiopia Dr. David Ehrenfeld, Biologist/Ecologist, Rutgers University, USA Dr. Vladimir Zajac, Oncovirologist, Genetisist, Cancer Reseach Inst, Czech Republic Dr. Brian Hursey, ex FAO Senior Officer for Vector Borne Diseases, UK Prof. Ruth Hubbard, Geneticist, Harvard University, USA Prof. Jonathan King, Molecular Biologist, MIT, Cambridge, USA Prof. Gilles-Eric Seralini, Laboratoire de Biochimie & Moleculaire, Univ. Caen, France Dr. David Suzuki, Geneticist, David Suzuki Foundation, Univ. British Columbia, Canada Dr. Vandana Shiva, Theoretical Physicist and Ecologist, India Dr. George Woodwell, Director, Woods Hole Research Center, USA Prof. Oscar B. Zamora, Agronomist, U. Philippines, Los Banos, Philippines add your name to the list! 1.9.2000 Open Letter from World Scientists to All GovernmentsSummaryWe, the undersigned scientists, call for the immediate suspension of all environmental releases of GM crops and products, both commercially and in open field trials, for at least 5 years; for patents on living processes, organisms, seeds, cell lines and genes to be revoked and banned; and for a comprehensive public enquiry into the future of agriculture and food security for all. Patents on life-forms and living processes should be banned because they threaten food security, sanction biopiracy of indigenous knowledge and genetic resources, violate basic human rights and dignity, compromise healthcare, impede medical and scientific research and are against the welfare of animals. GM crops offer no benefits to farmers or consumers. Instead, many problems have been identified, including yield drag, increased herbicide use, erratic performance, and poor economic returns to farmers. GM crops also intensify corporate monopoly on food, which is driving family farmers to destitution, and preventing the essential shift to sustainable agriculture that can guarantee food security and health around the world. The hazards of GMOs to biodiversity and human and animal health are now acknowledged by sources within the UK and US Governments. Particularly serious consequences are associated with the potential for horizontal gene transfer. These include the spread of antibiotic resistance marker genes that would render infectious diseases untreatable, the generation of new viruses and bacteria that cause diseases, and harmful mutations which may lead to cancer. In the Cartegena Biosafety Protocol negotiated in Montreal in January 2000, more than 130 governments have pledged to implement the precautionary principle and to ensure that biosafety legislations at the national and international levels take precedence over trade and financial agreements at the World Trade Organization. Successive studies have documented the productivity and the social and environmental benefits of sustainable, low-input and organic farming in both North and South. They offer the only practical way of restoring agricultural land degraded by conventional agronomic practices, and empower small family farmers to combat poverty and hunger. We urge the US Congress to reject GM crops as both hazardous and contrary to the interest of family farmers; and to support research and development of sustainable agricultural methods that can truly benefit family farmers all over the world. We, the undersigned scientists, call for the immediate suspension of all environmental releases of GM crops and products, both commercially and in open field trials, for at least 5 years; for patents on living processes, organisms, seeds, cell lines and genes to be revoked and banned; and for a comprehensive public enquiry into the future of agriculture and food security for all. 1. Patents on life-forms and living processes should be banned because they threaten food security, sanction biopiracy of indigenous knowledge and genetic resources, violate basic human rights and dignity, compromise healthcare, impede medical and scientific research and are against the welfare of animals(1). Life-forms such as organisms, seeds, cell lines and genes are discoveries and hence not patentable. Current GM techniques which exploit living processes are unreliable, uncontrollable and unpredictable, and do not qualify as inventions. Furthermore, those techniques are inherently unsafe, as are many GM organisms and products. 2. It is becoming increasingly clear that current GM crops are neither needed nor beneficial. They are a dangerous diversion preventing the essential shift to sustainable agricultural practices that can provide food security and health around the world. 3. Two simple characteristics account for the nearly 40 million hectares of GM crops planted in 1999(2). The majority (71%) are tolerant to broad-spectrum herbicides, with companies engineering plants to be tolerant to their own brand of herbicide, while most of the rest are engineered with bt-toxins to kill insect pests. A university-based survey of 8200 field trials of the most widely grown GM crops, herbicide-tolerant soya beans - revealed that they yield 6.7% less and required two to five times more herbicides than non-GM varieties(3). This has been confirmed by a more recent study in the University of Nebraska(4). Yet other problems have been identified: erratic performance, disease susceptibility(5), fruit abortion(6) and poor economic returns to farmers(7). 4. According to the UN food programme, there is enough food to feed the world one and a half times over. While world population has grown 90% in the past 40 years, the amount of food per capita has increased by 25%, yet one billion are hungry(8). A new FAO report confirms that there will be enough or more than enough food to meet global demands without taking into account any yield improvementsthat might result from GM crops well into 2030 (9). It is on account of increasing corporate monopoly operating under the globalised economy that the poor are getting poorer and hungrier(10). Family farmers around the world have been driven to destitution and suicide, and for the same reasons. Between 1993 and 1997 the number of mid-sized farms in the US dropped by 74,440(11), and farmers are now receiving below the average cost of production for their produce(12). The farming population in France and Germany fell by 50% since 1978(13). In the UK, 20 000 farming jobs were lost in the past year alone, and the Prime Minister has announced a £200m aid package(14). Four corporations control 85% of the world trade in cereals at the end of 1999(15). Mergers and acquisitions are continuing. 5. The new patents on seeds intensify corporate monopoly by preventing farmers from saving and replanting seeds, which is what most farmers still do in the Third World. In order to protect their patents, corporations are continuing to develop terminator technologies that genetic engineer harvested seeds not to germinate, despite worldwide opposition from farmers and civil society at large(16). 6. Christian Aid, a major charity working with the Third World, concluded that GM crops will cause unemployment, exacerbate Third World debt, threaten sustainable farming systems and damage the environment. It predicts famine for the poorest countries(17). African Governments condemned Monsanto's claim that GMOs are needed to feed the hungry of the world: "We..strongly object that the image of the poor and hungry from our countries is being used by giant multinational corporations to push a technology that is neither safe, environmentally friendly, nor economically beneficial to usЕ we believe it will destroy the diversity, the local knowledge and the sustainable agricultural systems that our farmers have developed for millennia and Еundermine our capacity to feed ourselves.(18)" A message from the Peasant movement of the Philippines to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) of the industrialized countries stated, "The entry of GMOs will certainly intensify landlessness, hunger and injustice.(19)" 7. A coalition of family farming groups in the US have issued a comprehensive list of demands, including ban on ownership of all life-forms; suspension of sales, environmental releases and further approvals of all GM crops and products pending an independent, comprehensive assessment of the social, environmental, health and economic impacts; and for corporations to be made liable for all damages arising from GM crops and products to livestock, human beings and the environment(20). They also demand a moratorium on all corporate mergers and acquisitions, on farm closures, and an end to policies that serve big agribusiness interests at the expense of family farmers, taxpayers and the environment(21). They have mounted a lawsuit against Monsanto and nine other corporations for monopolistic practices and for foisting GM crops on farmers without adequate safety and environmental impact assessments(22). 8. Some of the hazards of GM crops are openly acknowledged by the UK and US Governments. UK Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) has admitted that the transfer of GM crops and pollen beyond the planted fields is unavoidable(23), and this has already resulted in herbicide-tolerant weeds(24). An interim report on UK Government-sponsored field trials confirmed hybridisation between adjacent plots of different herbicide tolerant GM oilseed rape varieties, which gave rise to hybrids tolerant to multiple herbicides. In addition, GM oilseed rape and their hybrids were found as volunteers in subsequent wheat and barley crops, which had to be controlled by standard herbicides(25). Bt-resistant insect pests have evolved in response to the continuous presence of the toxins in GM plants throughout the growing season, and the US Environment Protection Agency is recommending farmers to plant up to 40% non-GM crops in order to create refugia for non-resistant insect pests(26). 9. The threats to biodiversity from major GM crops already commercialized are becoming increasingly clear. The broad-spectrum herbicides used with herbicide-tolerant GM crops decimate wild plant species indiscriminately, they are also toxic to animals. Glufosinate causes birth defects in mammals(27), and glyphosate is linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma(28). GM crops with bt-toxins kill beneficial insects such as bees(29) and lacewings(30), and pollen from bt-corn is found to be lethal to monarch butterflies(31) as well as swallowtails(32). Bt-toxin is exuded from roots of bt-plants in the rhizosphere, where it rapidly binds to soil particles and become protected from degradation. As the toxin is present in an activated, non-selective form, both target and non-target species in the soil will be affected(33), with knock on effects on species above ground. 10. Products resulting from genetically modified organisms can also be hazardous. For example, a batch of tryptophan produced by GM microorganisms was associated with at least 37 deaths and 1500 serious illnesses(34). Genetically modified Bovine Growth Hormone, injected into cows in order to increase milk yield, not only causes excessive suffering and illnesses for the cows but increases IGF-1 in the milk, which is linked to breast and prostate cancers in humans(35). It is vital for the public to be protected from all GM products, and not only those containing transgenic DNA or protein. That is because the process of genetic modification itself, at least in the form currently practised, is inherently unsafe. 11. Secret memoranda of US Food and Drug Administration revealed that it ignored the warnings of its own scientists that genetic engineering is a new departure and introduces new risks. Furthermore, the first GM crop to be commercialized - the Flavr Savr tomato - did not pass the required toxicological tests(36). Since then, no comprehensive scientific safety testing had been done until Dr. Arpad Pusztai and his collaborators in the UK raised serious concerns over the safety of the GM potatoes they were testing. They conclude that a significant part of the toxic effect may be due to the "[gene] construct or the genetic transformation (or both)" used in making the GM plants(37). 12. The safety of GM foods was openly disputed by Professor Bevan Moseley, molecular geneticist and current Chair of the Working Group on Novel Foods in the European Union's Scientific Committee on Food(38). He drew attention to unforseen effects inherent to the technology, emphasizing that the next generation of GM foods - the so-called 'neutraceuticals' or 'functional foods', such as vitamin A 'enriched' rice - will pose even greater health risks because of the increased complexity of the gene constructs. 13. Genetic engineering introduces new genes and new combinations of genetic material constructed in the laboratory into crops, livestock and microorganisms(39). The artificial constructs are derived from the genetic material of pathogenic viruses and other genetic parasites, as well as bacteria and other organisms, and include genes coding for antibiotic resistance. The constructs are designed to break down species barriers and to overcome mechanisms that prevent foreign genetic material from inserting into genomes. Most of them have never existed in nature in the course of billions of years of evolution. 14. These constructs are introduced into cells by invasive methods that lead to random insertion of the foreign genes into the genomes (the totality of all the genetic material of a cell or organism). This gives rise to unpredictable, random effects, including gross abnormalities in animals and unexpected toxins and allergens in food crops. 15. One construct common to practically all GM crops already commercialized or undergoing field trials involves a gene-switch (promoter) from the cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) spliced next to the foreign gene (transgene) to make it over-express continuously(40). This CaMV promoter is active in all plants, in yeast, algae and E. coli. We recently discovered that it is even active in amphibian egg(41) and human cell extract(42). It has a modular structure, and is interchangeable, in part, or in whole with promoters of other viruses to give infectious viruses. It also has a 'recombination hotspot' where it is prone to break and join up with other genetic material(43). 16. For these and other reasons, transgenic DNA - the totality of artificial constructs transferred into the GMO - may be more unstable and prone to transfer again to unrelated species; potentially to all species interacting with the GMO(44). 17. The instability of transgenic DNA in GM plants is well-known(45). GM genes are often silenced, but loss of part or all of the transgenic DNA also occurs, even during later generations of propagation(46). We are aware of no published evidence for the long term stability of GM inserts in terms of structure or location in the plant genome in any of the GM lines already commercialized or undergoing field trials. 18. The potential hazards of horizontal transfer of GM genes include the spread of antibiotic resistance genes to pathogens, the generation of new viruses and bacteria that cause disease and mutations due to the random insertion of foreign DNA, some of which may lead to cancer in mammalian cells(47). The ability of the CaMV promoter to function in all species including human beings is particularly relevant to the potential hazards of horizontal gene transfer. 19. The possibility for naked or free DNA to be taken up by mammalian cells is explicitly mentioned in the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) draft guidance to industry on antibiotic resistance marker genes(48). In commenting on the FDA's document, the UK MAFF pointed out that transgenic DNA may be transferred not just by ingestion, but by contact with plant dust and air-borne pollen during farm work and food processing(49). This warning is all the more significant with the recent report from Jena University in Germany that field experiments indicated GM genes may have transferred via GM pollen to the bacteria and yeasts in the gut of bee larvae(50). 20. Plant DNA is not readily degraded during most commercial food processing(51). Procedures such as grinding and milling left grain DNA largely intact, as did heat-treatment at 90deg.C. Plants placed in silage showed little degradation of DNA, and a special UK MAFF report advises against using GM plants or plant waste in animal feed. 21. The human mouth contains bacteria that have been shown to take up and express naked DNA containing antibiotic resistance genes, and similar transformable bacteria are present in the respiratory tracts(52). 22. Antibiotic resistance marker genes from GM plants have been found to transfer horizontally to soil bacteria and fungi in the laboratory(53). Field monitoring revealed that GM sugar beet DNA persisted in the soil for up to two years after the GM crop was planted. And there is evidence suggesting that parts of the transgenic DNA have transferred horizontally to bacteria in the soil(54). 23. Recent research in gene therapy and nucleic acid (both DNA and RNA) vaccines leaves little doubt that naked/free nucleic acids can be taken up, and in some cases, incorporated into the genome of all mammalian cells including those of human beings. Adverse effects already observed include acute toxic shock, delayed immunological reactions and autoimmune reactions(55). 24. The British Medical Association, in their interim report (published May, 1999), called for an indefinite moratorium on the releases of GMOs pending further research on new allergies, the spread of antibiotic resistance genes and the effects of transgenic DNA. 25. In the Cartegena Biosafety Protocol successfully negotiated in Montreal in January, 2000, more than 130 governments have agreed to implement the precautionary principle, and to ensure that biosafety legislations at the national and international levels take precedence over trade and financial agreements at the WTO. Similarly, delegates to the Codex Alimentarius Commission Conference in Chiba Japan, March 2000, have agreed to prepare stringent regulatory procedures for GM foods that include pre-market evaluation, long-term monitoring for health impacts, tests for genetic stability, toxins, allergens and other unintended effects(56). The Cartegena Biosafety Protocol has now been signed by 68 Governments in Nairobi in May, 2000. 26. We urge all Governments to take proper account of the now substantial scientific evidence of actual and suspected hazards arising from GM technology and many of its products, and to impose an immediate moratorium on further environmental releases, including open field trials, in accordance with the precautionary principle as well as sound science. 27. Successive studies have documented the productivity and sustainability of family farming in the Third World as well as in the North(57). Evidence from both North and South indicates that small farms are more productive, more efficient and contribute more to economic development than large farms. Small farmers also tend to make better stewards of natural resources, conserving biodiversity and safeguarding the sustainability of agricultural production(58). Cuba responded to the economic crisis precipitated by the break up of the Soviet Bloc in 1989 by converting from conventional large scale, high input monoculture to small organic and semi-organic farming, thereby doubling food production with half the previous input(59). 28. Agroecological approaches hold great promise for sustainable agriculture in developing countries, in combining local farming knowledge and techniques adjusted to local conditions with contemporary western scientific knowledge(60). The yields have doubled and tripled and are still increasing. An estimated 12.5 million hectares worldwide are already successfully farmed in this way(61). It is environmentally sound and affordable for small farmers. It recovers farming land marginalized by conventional intensive agriculture. It offers the only practical way of restoring agricultural land degraded by conventional agronomic practices. Most of all, it empowers small family farmers to combat poverty and hunger. 29. We urge all Governments to reject GM crops on grounds that they are both hazardous and contrary to ecologically sustainable use of resources. Instead they should support research and development of sustainable agricultural methods that can truly benefit family farmers the world over. 1 Dr. Dennis Smith poopy den s Afghanistan 2 Prof.em Calum Wright M.Phil i am a expert on the study of life none Afghanistan 3 Prof. Polycap Dank B.Sc science polycap research institute Angola 4 Prof. Adolfo E. Boy Horticulture and Sustainable Agri. Univ. 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Queensland retired Chair of International Organisation for Biotechnology and Bioengineering Director MIRCEN-Biotechnology Brisbance and Pacific Regional Network Australia 17 Dr. Lynette J. Dumble Medical Scientist Women's Health and Environment University of Melbourne Australia 18 Doug N Everingham Physician MB BS Univ Syd 1946 Ex MPs Association Australia 19 Angela Fehringer Anthropology Student Sydney Australia 20 Prof. Frank G.H.P. Fisher Graduate School of Environmental Science Clayton Australia 21 Kasia E. Gabrys Environmental Scientist Environmental Science National Trust of Australia Melbourne Australia 22 Prof. Adrian Gibbs Ph.D Virologist retired Australia 23 Dr. Dion Giles Ph.D Analytical chemistry organic chemistry chemical education Stop MAI (WA) Australia 24 Stephen Glanville PDC ECOS Design Australia 25 Dr. Veronica R. 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Estonia 173 Prof. Anne Luik Ph.D Entomology plant protection Estonian Agricultural University Estonia 174 Sue Edwards M.Sc botanist and scientific editor lover of all life forms Institute for Sustainable Development Ethiopia 175 Dr. Tewolde Egziabher Agronomist Min. of the Environment Spokesperson for African Region Ethiopia 176 Dr. Liisa Kuusipalo Ph.D cellbiologist North Carelian Central Hospital Finland 177 Dr. Mark Rawlings Ph.D Astrophysicst Finland 178 Sylvain Allombert M.Sc. Ph.D. Student Ecology Centre National de la Recherche Scientificque Monpellier PSRAST France 179 Dr. Thierry Baussant Biochemist Senior Scientist Pharmaceutical Industry Bellegard France 180 Dr. Jean-Pierre Berlan Directeur de Recherches INR/CTESI France 181 Dr. Luc G. Bulot Researcher ESA CNRS 6019- Centre de Sedimentologie- Paleontologie Marseille PSRAST France 182 Dr. Pierre Calinaud Ph.D organic chemistry France 183 Dr. George Capouthier Biologist Univ. Paris France 184 MORAND CEDRIC c LCR Faucheurs Volontaires France 185 Dr. Dominique Cellier Prof Statistics in Bioinformatics Laboratoire LMRS ABISS Universite France 186 Dr. Marie Christine BRGM Environment & Procedes Unite Biotechnologie Orlean France 187 Nathalie Cialdella Ph.D student agronomist France 188 Olga Daric M.Phil linguistics France 189 Bertrand desClers M.Sc Scientific research/Aeronautics/Conservation/Environment IGF France 190 Dr. QUEIROS CONDE Diogo theoretical biology turbulence geometry of multi scale systems Ecole des mines de Paris France 191 Dr. Jean Estrangin MK General Practice Grenoble France 192 Alain Fardif Certificat of therapist Paris France 193 PRAT Frederic B.Sc Information about GMO Geyser France 194 Dr. Du Bus De Warnaffe Ga Tan sustainable management of temperate forests INRA France 195 Dr. Du Bus De Warnaffe Gaetan Ph.D Sustainable forest management INRA France 196 Prof. Pierre Henri Gouyon Ph.D Geneticist specialist of Evolutionary biology Population biology and Plant breeding Universite de Paris Sud France 197 Jacques Hallard Plant breeding Plant pthology Genetics Independant France 198 BAZIN Jean Pierre B.Eng Medical Imaging INSERM France 199 Dr. Arthur MacKenzie Ph.D physical chemistry France 200 Etienne Maillet Logic Philosophy Mathematic Ethic Polititics Anthropology China France 201 Dr. Herve Le Meur Biomathematician Univ. Paris France 202 Cecilia Meynet Ph.D student geographe France 203 Ruby Michel B.Eng chicken breeder ATTAC France 204 Dr. Birgit Muller Ph.D Social Anthropologist LAIOS CNRS France 205 Dr. Vic Norris IFR Systems Integres Univ. Rouen France 206 Dr. Jean-Michel Panoff Microbiologist Univ. of Caen Caen France 207 Dr. J. Pelt Institut Europeen d'Ecologie France 208 Dr. Bernard PINTUREAU Ph.D Entomologist INRA France 209 Dr. Christian PRAT Soil Scientist Agronomist in Latin America Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement France 210 Thierry Raffin Sociologue President de СInfТOGM France 211 Prof. Gilles-Eric Seralini Laboratoire de Biochimie& Moleculaire Univ. Caen France 212 Dr. Jean Staune Ph.D Post Darwinian Evolutionist Interdisciplinary University Paris France 213 Dr. Christophe Vieren Ph.D Automatique Universit des Sciences et Techonlogies de Lille France 214 Anwar Abo Amer Ph.D student fluorine chemistry and organometallic chemistry Duisburg Essen University Germany 215 Hudson Angeyo Ph.D student Physics: Analytical atomic spectroscopy and nuclear techniques in analysis University of Duisburg Germany 216 Dr. Elisabeth B?cking Ph.D Biologist Germany 217 Dr. Jurgen Boxberger Ph.D Cell and tissue culture ProCellula Germany 218 Dr. Reinald Doebel Institute of Sociology Rural and Development Soc. Westfaelische Wilhelms Univ. Germany 219 Dr. Tarek Elsherif Molecular Biologist TU Munich Germany 220 Lotz Frank Wolfgang Expert in The Vedic Health System Bestselling Author Germany 221 Brian Gentry Ph.D student Soft matter physics biophysics Germany 222 Dr. Anita Idel Author and Zoologist OpТn Dorp 17 Barsbek Germany 223 Dr. Martha Martens Biologist Bund Naturschutz in Bayern e. V. Munich Germany 224 Ilaria Mazzini Ph.D paleontologist Germany 225 Dr. Werner Mittelstaedt President Future Research/Peace Studies Gelsenkir Germany 226 Dr. Jennifer Schmid Ph.D Plant Ecology; Plant Population Genetic OEko Institut e.V.; Institute for Applied Ecology Germany 227 Dr. Eckart Stein Physicist Univ. Regensburg Germany 228 Dr. Beatrix Tappeser Head of Dept. Risk analysis of genetic engineering Institute for Applied Ecology Freiburg Germany 229 Dr. Stefan Thiesen Ph.D Astronomer and Geographer author of several popular science books one on climate change one on the perils of Biotech German Genterror und Lebenspatente independent Germany 230 Dr. Rebecca C. Wade Molecular Biology Heidelberg Germany 231 Dr. Christine von Weisaeker Ecoropa Germany 232 Frank Wolfgang Research on Vedic Health Food and Bestselling Author Germany 233 EMMANUEL KWAW M.Sc FOOD SCIENCE STUDENT Ghana 234 Prince K.N Nkrumah B.Sc Biochemist Development and Advocacy Foundation Ghana 235 Dr. Maria Caparis Marine Biologist Greece 236 Yannis Coconis translation Greece 237 Prof. Nicholas Fanourakis Ph.D Vegetable geneticist Technological Education Institute of Crete Greece 238 Dr. Costas Giannakenas Consultant Nuclear Medicine Univ. Patras Medical School Rion-Patras Greece 239 Prof. Tasos Kourakis B.Sc Geneticist Dept. General Biology & Genetics Medical Faculty Aristotelian University Thessaloni Greece 240 Harry Papageorgiou M.Sc Agricultural Sciences Environmental Impact Assessment Greece 241 Anna Gigli statistical modelling for medicine and biology national research council Greenland 242 Dr Christiane Boecker MCommH MCommH Community Health Haiti 243 Kevin Li B.Sc. Hong Kong 244 Prof. Julissa Martin Ph.D student i do not know what your talking abou t idk Hong Kong 245 Iren Karacsony B.Sc social medicine Hungary 246 Prof. Ervin Laszlo President The Club of Budapest Hungary 247 Prof. Dr Fenyvesi Peter Ph.D ONCOVIROLOGY MTOKKFI Hungary 248 Dr. Nikki Broglowskhini Ph.D I am well equipped with all things scientifical. The society for science Iceland 249 Dr. Ibrahim Abdul Azeez Ph.D Effect of acidification on the ecophysiology of freshwater fishes Fathima college of pharmacy kadayanallur 627759 India 250 Dr. Muhua Achary Environmentalist St. Joseph's College Bangalore India 251 Dr. TANVEER ANSARI Ph.D Natural Product Chemistry DABUR GROUP India 252 Dr. Muthukumarasamy Arunachalam Ph.D fish biodiversity fish ecology conservation of ecosystems Manonmaniam Sundaranar university Alwarkurichi Tir India 253 Prof. Jayapaul Azariah Ecology Environmental Ethics Head of Dept.of Zoology and Director of School of Life Sciences Univ. Madras Chennai India 254 MOHAN BAJIKAR B.Sc Has introduced important first entry in India biotechnologies Was a Member of Task Force Mission Mode Program of the Dept of Biotechnology Govt of India Fetchus Consultancy Innovators Pvt Ltd India 255 Dr. Sarath Babu Balijepalli Ph.D Research Scientist withexperience in collection evaluation and conservation of agrobiodiversity and natural resources management for crop protection National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources India 256 Dr. CHANDRESH BORAD Ph.D Ecology Evolution and Conservation Biological Control Research Laboratory India 257 Dr. Tushar Borse Ph.D Biochemistry University of pune India 258 Dr. Gopal Yadav Boyina Ph.D In organic chemistry Sanmar speciality chemicals India 259 Dr. Gopal Yadav Boyina Ph.D In organic chemistry Sanmar speciality chemicals India 260 Dr. Sreenivas Burra Ph.D consultant in Natural Resource management Agronomist AMR APARD India 261 Dr. Amar Chouhan Ph.D master in enviroment analysis i i f t r India 262 candice coates M.Sc Lecturer in Biotechnology, Mumbai University. India 263 Dr. Thomas S. Cox Research Geneticist U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Manhattan KS (retired) - present address Hyderabad India 264 Dr. M I H Farooqi Ph.D Plant Chemist NBRI India 265 Prof.em Jahnavi Jahnavi M.Sc mol bio agri university India 266 Dr. Harry Jeyaprakash Ph.D IPM expert cotributed to farming communities 35 years in agricultural extention retired as joint director of agriculture India 267 Dr. Dr Dinesh Kacha M.D Obesity management Benmoon Pharma Research India 268 Dr. Sudhir Kaura Ph.D Organic Farming Molecular Genetics Natural Farming Network India 269 Dr. Nelson Kochappavu Ph.D Natural Health Rural health India 270 Prof Rayana Bhavan Kovutarapu M.Sc AgricultureNatural Resorces biotech agroeconomy and management withadministration (IAMMA) India 271 Dr. Dr Bellie Krishnan Ph.D Biological Control Sun Agro Biotech Research Center India 272 Prof.em Ranjeet Ku Sah B.Eng no study India 273 Dr. RAJEEW KUMAR Ph.D Crop growth modelling fertilizer reccommendation Barssica wheat NFCL Hyderabad India 274 Rajesh Kumar Ph.D student Vegetable Insect Pests of Lepidoptera Indian Agricultural Research Institute India 275 Dr. Joban Modha M.D ayurvedic onco heametologist nisargayurveda India 276 C. Nanjunda Murthy M.Sc. Plant Scientist Karnataka India 277 Dr. Divyesh Nagar Ph.D organic synthetic chemistry alembic ltd India 278 Dr. Dr Sankar Narayanan Ph.D Environmental Microbiologist KSR college of Arts Science India 279 Satheesh P M.Sc Grassroots work on food security and organic agriculture in dryland areas and gender Deccan Development Society India 280 Dr. DR GEEVEE PANDALA M.D virologost India 281 Dr. DR GEE VEE Pandala Ph.D INVENTIONAL SCIENTIST GVSRC India 282 Dr. Parvaiz Qazi Ph.D Recombinant DNA technology regional research laboratory canal road Jammu India 283 Dr. N. Raghauram Plant Molecular Biology Univ. Mumbai India 284 Dr. Atul Sahai Ph.D Remote Sensing GIS Specialist for Natural Resource Disaster Management HOPE Technologies India 285 Dr. Shreekant Sapatnekar M.D Community Medicine Haffkine Institute Mumbai India 286 Prof.em Thangavelu Saravanan M.Sc Scientist in organic Agriculture Agronomist NaturalResourcesProtectionAndDevelopmentSociety India 287 Dr. Sathan Sathan Ph.D Kill Sulthan India 288 Dr. Chaitanya Sathe Ph.D industrial water pollution and waste water treatment Hindustan Dorr oliver Ltd India 289 Dr. Bala Ravi Sekhara Pillai Ph.D Geneticist and Plant Breeder India 290 Sharad Shah Director of Ace natural foods Vadodara India 291 Devinder Sharma Geneticist Plant Breeder and Writer Forum for Biotechnology and Food Security New Delhi India 292 Dr. Vandana Shiva Research Institute for Science and Ecology India 293 Dr. Dr Shirish Shrivastava M.D Herbal and ethnobotany expert do not favour GM plmts since they disturb the local flowra SAPRC India 294 Dr. Dr Shirish Shrivastava M.D Herbal and ethnobotany expert do not favour GM plmts since they disturb the local flowra SAPRC India 295 Prof. Arun Shrivastava Management Consultant SEDEM India 296 Priya Srinivas M.Phil Food Science Katra Phytochem Private Ltd India 297 Dr. Parshotam TANDON Ph.D Entomophagous Insect Behaviour Biological Control of Crop Pests Project Directorate of Biological Control India 298 Prof. Thomas Tharayil Ph.D tiuiruiuiuiuiruriy India 299 Dr. RAMA KRISHANA THOTA M.Sc I ve done project in aqua related to pro biotics and anti biotic in ecology vesper biotech india ltd India 300 Dr. R.P. Upadhyay Ph.D Lecturer in Physics India 301 Prof.em Durga Bhushaiah Vakkapatla M.Sc VIRAL RNA can be expressed in cytosol on HIV infected T cells university of hyderabd India 302 Dr. Sanjay Vasoya Ph.D organic synthetic chemistry alembic ltd India 303 Gustav Vaz B.Sc Biothechnology India 304 Gustavo Vaz B.Sc Biotechnology India 305 Erwin Adriawan B.Sc Campaigner on Anti GMOs Biotani Foundation Indonesia 306 Dr. Ernawati Gender and Rural Development Institute of Rural Development Indonesia 307 TOTO HARA Senior Consultant Coordinator ICRD Indonesia Chamber of Resources Development Indonesia 308 Wasis Krisnadi forest product forest faculty GMU Indonesia 309 Dr. Sina Ahmadi Ph.D Bio technologits Iran 310 Arman Ardalan Ph.D student Molecular Evolution NIGEB Iran 311 Dr. Kamran Haeri M.Sc research scientist MPT Iran 312 Dr. Amir Jalali M.D TIM TCM Unani Ayurveda also I have created a new kind of workout called Jalali System Traditional Iranian Medicine TIM Iran 313 Dr. Saeid Malekzadeh M.Sc yekom Iran 314 Sajad Noor industrial ergineering economic asd Iran 315 Dr. Saeed Yadranji Aghdam M.Sc none university of tehran Iran 316 Prof. Sean McDonagh M.Sc I am a theologian and anthropologist I worked for over 20 years in the Philippines I have written extensively on ethics and genetic engineering catholic priest Ireland 317 Barry Jude McGuinness Student Of BSc Biomedical Sciences University College Cork Ireland 318 Iris Atzmon represent the public opinion we are not lab animals Israel 319 Prof. Rita Alicchio Plant Geneticist Univ. Bologna Italy 320 Dr. Andrea Amadei Molecular Biophysics Assistant professor Un. of Rome Tor Vergata Italy 321 Prof. Drago Antonino B.Sc History of Physics Bioethics Scientific Committe of Inter Univ. Center on Bioet Italy 322 Prof. Livia Armandi Ph.D Agronomist Italy 323 Dr. Ciro Aurigemma Ph.D psicologist member of csa CEU/IPV Italy 324 Dr. Giampiero Barbieri Ph.D Chemists GMO analysis laboratory Stazione Sperimentale Industrie Conserve Alimentar Italy 325 Dr. Giovanni G Bazzocchi Ph.D Entomologist Agroecologist Universita di Bologna Italy 326 Dr. Stefania Biondi M.Sc Plant Physiologist University of Bologna Dept. of Biology Italy 327 Dr. Ernesto Burgio pediatrician attac Italy 328 Dr. Tiziana Camorani psicologa private Italy 329 Paola Capozzi plant and soil ecology Italy 330 Dr. Ferdinando Cerbone psicologo Italy 331 Dr Giorgio Cingolani Agricultural Economist Italy 332 Dr. Alberto Clarizia M.Sc Physicist University of Naples Italy 333 Dr. Raffaella Comito B.Sc General Practitioner holistic medicine Italy 334 Dr. Immacolata Coraggio Ph.D Plant Molecular Biologist Counseil National Research Italy 335 Dr. Bruno D'Udine Behaviour Ecologist University of Udine Italy 336 Dr. Simone De Ph.D Mathematics Combinatorics National Council of Research Italy 337 Prof. Adriano Decarli Cancer Epidermiology INST Univ. Milan Italy 338 Prof. Stefano Dumontet M.Sc soil microbiologist Universit. Basilicata Italy 339 Dr. Enzo Ferrara M.Sc Metrology in Chemistry IEN EURACHEM Italy 340 Dr. Sergio Francardo B.Sc Anthroposofical medical doctor Gruppo Medico Antroposofico Italiano Italy 341 Dr. Alessandro Giuliani Ph.D Biophysics Multidimensional Statistics Istituto Superiore di Sanita Italy 342 Elena Del Grosso Geneticist Researcher Deptl Evolutionary & Exptl. Biology Univ. Bologna Bologna Italy 343 Dr. Nicolas Kropacek M.D Public Health Free Lance Researcher Italy 344 Dr. Agostino Letardi M.Sc ecotoxicologist E.N.E.A. Italy 345 Prof. Ignazio Licata Full Professor of Theoretical Physics Ist Cibernetica non lineare Italy 346 Dr. Marco Mamone Ph.D mathematician University of Perugia Italy 347 Prof. Marco Mamone Capria Ph.D mathematician historian of science epistemologist University of Perugia Italy 348 Dr. Paolo Manzelli M.Phil Research in Education on Biochemistry LRE EGO CreaNET University of Florence Italy Italy 349 Dr. Bussolati Mariella M.Sc science writer Italy 350 Dr. Carlo Maurizio Modonesi Animal and environmental biology Universita di Parma Italy 351 Dr. Karin Munck B.Sc comunication & science Fondazione Medikinale International Parma Italy 352 Prof. Valeria NEGRI Ph.D geneticist teaches 'Agricultural Genetic Resources' University of Perugia Italy 353 Prof. Francesco Palmirotta Ph.D psycho somatic clinicssocial work AOP Italy 354 Prof. Mariuccia Papa M.Sc biologist high school teacher Italy 355 Dr. Pietro Perrino Ph.D Plant Genetic Resources expert in collection conservation characterisation evaluation and utilasation From time to time Prof in Botany and Ecology C N R Germplasm Institute Italy 356 Dr. Francesca Salvemini Ph.D Biologist Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Italy 357 Prof. Steven N Shore Ph.D Physicist University of Pisa Italy 358 Prof. Leopoldo Silvestroni Endocrinologist Univ. of Rome Italy 359 Dr. Francesco Spinazzola M.D infectivologist Italy 360 Roberto Stefani Ph.D student Student of Political Science writing final thesis on GMOs Greenpeace Italia Italy 361 Prof. emeritus Shingo Shibata Hiroshima University; Environmental Sociology and Biosafety Tokyo Japan 362 Prof. Atuhiro Sibatani Molecular Biologist Osaka Japan 363 Dr Shiron Sugita Plant Geneticist Nagoya U. Japan 364 Dr Noboru Yagishita Plant Geneticist Jap. Assoc. Agro-Nature Tokyo Japan 365 Dr Machiko Yasukohchi PLAN - International Japan Public Relations Team Japan 366 Prof. Julian BAUER Ph.D Ecologist Forest Scientist working against any GE Tree development and or planting No GEO introductions without PIC of local people GE free zones a must ECOTERRA Intl var East African Universities Kenya 367 Wycliffe Wanzala Ph.D student Naturalist University of Nairobi Kenya 368 Dr. Georges Mailliet B.Sc Pulmonologist Luxembourg 369 Mohd Roshdi Hassan M.Sc Smart Material university Putra Malaysia Malaysia 370 Al Hanisham Mohd Khalid International Law Lawyer University Utara Malaysia Malaysia 371 Dr. Rosli Omar Ph.D Arificial Intelligence Universiti Malaya Malaysia 372 Prof. Elena Alvarez Buylla Ph.D Molecular Genetics of Plant Development and Evolution UNAM Mexico 373 Douglas Hinds Dir Gral Center for Community and Rural Development National Coordinator for Organic Production National Confederation of Rural Property Owners Dir of Sp CeDeCoR CNPR CSNI ISHS Mexico 374 Prof. Andres F Keiman Ph.D student Populations Ecology and Forest Conservation Universidad de la Ciudad de Mexico Mexico 375 Prof. Alberto R. Miranda Biologist Environmental Public Education Cuernavaca Mexico 376 Rodriguez Mitchell Nemesio Anthropologist PNUD INI Mexico 377 Dr. Ronald Nigh Ph.D anthropology specialty in agroecology biodiversity environment; member of SNI CIESAS Mexico 378 Dr. Enrique Vargas Ph.D Molecualr Immunology Universidad Veracruzana Grupo L dico Mexico 379 Dr. Ilya Trombitsky Ph.D BIOTICA Ecological Society Moldova 380 Prof. Si Bennasseur ALAOUI Ph.D Organic farming and alternative crops Institut Agronomique et Veterinaire Hassan II Morocco 381 Prof. Lahcen Kenny Ph.D Oraganic Agriculture and Horticulture IAV Hassan II Morocco 382 Mukti Ram Chapagain Organic agriculture Nepal Organic Agriculture Ctr NOAC Pvt Ltd Nepal 383 M R Chapagain Organic Suistainable Agriculture and Rural Development Nepal Organic Agriculture Ctr Nepal 384 Maheswar Ghimire Organic Agriculture Promotion and Inspection Ecoscentre Nepal 385 Prof. Jiwan Rai M.Sc biochemist nepal organic association Nepal 386 Prof.em Bechan Raut M.Sc Medicinal Botanist Pokhara University Nepal 387 David Baillie B.Sc Deep Ecologist Naturopath NZ Forest Gardening Research Harmony Farmof Harmony Farm New Zealand 388 Dr. Robert Anderson Physicist Nuclear Medicine Technical Institute Hamilton New Zealand 389 Dr. Troy Baisden Ph.D Ecosystem Science (Soil Science/Ecology) Landcare Research New Zealand 390 Marie Buchler M.Sc Zoology masters editor and journalist and university tutor Bio Dynamic Farming and Gardening Association New Zealand 391 Dr. George Coghill Software Engineering University of Auckland New Zealand 392 Dr. Bernard Conlon B.Sc Rural GP New Zealand 393 Dr. Tim Ewer Physician Mapua Health Centre Nelson New Zealand 394 Dr. Michael Godfrey Environmental Toxicologist General Practitioner Taura New Zealand 395 Brendan Hoare M.Sc Organic systems sustaianble design integrated land managment UNITEC econation2020 Orgnaic Federation of NZ New Zealand 396 Sigrid D. Houlette B.Sc. B.Sc. Solid Waste Manager Environmental Engineering Local Government Lower Hutt New Zealand 397 Jessica Hutchings Ph.D student Maori environmentalist Maori science and resource management Lecturer Faculty of Science Victoria University New Zealand 398 Hussila Keshaw M.Sc Molecular Biology The University of Auckland New Zealand 399 Dr. Peter King Ph.D Sociologist Family Centre Social Policy Research Unit New Zealand 400 Dr. Nick Lambrechten Consultant Revegetation Ecologist Wellington New Zealand 401 Dr. Shona L. Lamoureaux Plant Ecology Christchurch New Zealand 402 Dr. Ruth Lawson Ph.D Parasite Epidemiologist and GE Campaigner New Zealand 403 Helmut Lubbers M.Sc ecologist ecology discovery foundation new zealand New Zealand 404 Dr Robert Mann Ecologist Auckland New Zealand 405 Dr. Ted Ninnes Ph.D Sociology and Psychology University of Waikato New Zealand 406 Robin W. Ord Molecular Geneticist Law Student Hamilton New Zealand 407 Tara Satyanand M.Sc Molecular genetics University of Auckland New Zealand 408 Dr. Sean Weaver Ph.D Environmental Policy Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand 409 Dr Colin Wells Director of Energy Management Dept of Physics University of Otago New Zealand 410 Katharine White I am an experienced artist and G E Free H B N Z campaigner I am and have been in the position to put my graphic expertise to use in the cause of the planet T L C Wellington and E I T Hawke s Bay New Zealand 411 Dr Peter R Wills Theoretical Biology Univ. Auckland New Zealand 412 Prof. Leong Yap Ph.D Ergonomist Industrial Designer Massey University New Zealand 413 Dr. Emmanuel AFOLABI Ph.D come and be healed physiotherapy and ecology Nigeria 414 Dr. Ralph Nwaokoro Ph.D ECOTOXICOLOGIST UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS Nigeria 415 Dr. Azeez Bolaji Odewenu M.Sc National association of science students Nigeria 416 Dr Ingrid Olesen Senior Research Scientist Institute of Aquaculture Res. Ltd Norway 417 Dr. Lars Rasmussen MD MD General Practitioner Univ. Oslo Mesnali Norway 418 Prof. Terje Traavik Virologist University of Tromso Norway 419 Dr. Hussain Ahmad M.Sc fermentation sold state fermentation koji university of veterinary and animal sciences lahor Pakistan 420 Dr. Obaid Ali M.Phil Bioavailabilitiy and Pharmacokinetic studies Govt of Pakistan Pakistan 421 Prof. Muhammad Bilal M.Sc research work on maize mmri yusafwala sahiwal pakistan Pakistan 422 Dr. Shakeel Farooqi Ph.D Genetics University of Karachi Pakistan 423 Muhammad Imran Imran Biochemist damask_786 Pakistan 424 Farhat Jabeen Jabeen B.Sc biotech biotech Pakistan 425 Prof. Omer Khayyam M.Sc food research programe food research Pakistan 426 Dr. Washdev Malhi Ph.D student whole soules and mind control jai ma jee Pakistan 427 Sajjad Naqvi M.Sc University of Karachi Pakistan 428 Dr. Mian Qaseem Ph.D Nuclier Magnetic Resonance Retired Educational Adviser Govt of Pakistan Pakistan 429 Dr. Tasneem Rizvi Ph.D Molecular Biophysics. PCSIR Laboratories Complex 430 Madiha Saeed Rizvi B.Sc Deptt of Biotechnology Univerity of Karachi Pakistan 431 Dr. Naveed Yusuf M.Phil veterinarian university of veterinary and animal sciences lahor Pakistan 432 Prof.em Eric Jimenez Ph.D none Aquatic Panama 433 Ethel Japeth B.Sc none police Savings & Loan Papua New Guinea 434 Dr. Sergio Barrio Tarnawiecki Science Policy National Research Council of Lima Peru 435 Prof.em Pedro Angco Jr H2O limpyobaybay founder Philippines 436 GEONATHAN BARRO Doing Anti GMO campaigns coordinates with other NGOs on our Anti GMO GE stand KALITAWHAN WORKING GROUP ON BIODIVERSITY Philippines 437 GEONATHAN BARRO Coordinator Coordinates with NGOs POs and other Organizations on Anti GMO campaigns and other related issues and concerns KALITAWHAN WORKING GROUP ON BIODIVERSITY Philippines 438 Paterno Borlagdan M.Sc Agricultural Engineer Filipino Inventors Society Philippines 439 Javier M Claparols Agriculture Rice Sugar Aquaculture Milkfish Bangus shrimp Businessman Ecologist Ecological Society of the Philippines Philippines 440 Antonio M CLAPAROLS M.Sc Ecologist farmer marine and terrestial biodiversity economics Ecological Society of the Philippines Philippines 441 Johnny Danganan B.Sc lay out artist in publications Sustainable Agriculture advocate Philippines 442 Dr. Clint ESco Ph.D student Expert in psychology concerning students PICHES and PIDO Philippines 443 Dr. Pamela G. Fernadez Agronomist U. Philippines Los Banos Philippines 444 Delilah Galang B.Sc Natural Therapy Consultant Cancer Council Philippines 445 Dr. Richard Kharpungal Ph.D Agronomist U Philippines Philippines 446 Prof. Mark Erick Magbanua Ph.D student no Philippines 447 Prof. Mark Erick Magbanua M.Sc metro manila Philippines 448 Ben Malayang University of Philippines Los Banos Laguna Philippines 449 FRANCIS MORALES M.Phil Advocacy Officer of MASIPAG Mindanao MASIPAG Philippines 450 Charles T. Olsen D.C. Chiropractic Clinic Davao Clinic PSRAST Philippines 451 Prof. Marlon Pareja Ph.D student Cell and Molecular Biology Wildlife Conservation Society of the Philippines Philippines 452 Nicanor Perlas B.Sc Agricultural Scientist and Ecologist Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Center for Alternative Development Initiatives Philippines 453 Dr. Romeo F. Quijano Pesticide Action Network Pharmacologist/Toxiologist Philippines 454 Dr. Dante Jr Simbulan Ph.D Neurophysiology De La Salle University Health Sciences Campus Philippines 455 Dr. Jaime A Sison Animal Nutrition and Feed Milling Aqua Ace Nutrition Inc Philippines 456 Dr. MARVIN UMALI M.D pediatrician doctors of the philippines Philippines 457 Prof. Oscar B. Zamora Agronomist U. Philippines Los Banos Philippines 458 Prof. Joel Mckevin Zamora Ph.D b s of s and t psu Philippines 459 Dr. Szymczyk Ryszard Ph.D methodology of cultivar testing wildlife conservation Poland 460 Prof. Vicinzineddu Itunculu M.D biochemistry portug univrsity Portugal 461 Rui Pereira M.D General Practice Portugal 462 Prof. Clara Queiroz Ph.D Geneticist Retired University of Lisboa Portugal 463 Teresa Silva Ph.D student Coconut Portugal 464 Dr. Margarida Silva Molecular Biologist Portuguese Catholic Univ. Portugal 465 Dr. Franciso J.C.M. Teixeira Researcher Geophysics Geological and Mining Institute Lisbon Portugal 466 Fatima C. Teixeira Researcher Marine Geology Lisbon Portugal 467 Carlos Altieri M.Sc Toxicity and pesticides in water Health Environmental Department Puerto Rico Puerto Rico 468 Nelson Alvarez JD Sociologist and Lawyer Agriculture and development consultant Puerto Rico 469 Dr. Clara Carrasco Ph.D Molecular Biology and Genetics Puerto Rico 470 Dr. Shridhar Devidas Ph.D Basically an Ecologist turned environmental management system specialist advocating sustainable resource use among the industires Bureau Veritas Qatar 471 Dr. Joseph Mezei M.D quantum medicine Medical Center Tongtian Romania 472 Prof. Vladimir Kuznetsov Ph.D Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Institute of Plant Physiology RAS Russia 473 Dr. Ali Mohammed Ph.D Chief executive officer Companies Saudi Arabia 474 Prof. WAIL SALAH B.Sc BIOTECH Saudi Arabia 475 Prof. Vladimir Ajdacic Ph.D nuclear physics carcinogenecity none retired Serbia 476 Peter Sevich Ph.D student Serbia 477 Glenn Ashton Director Ekogaia Foundation and Green Party South Africa 478 Dr. Brigitte N.B. Schwabe-Berg Medical Officer Groote Schuur Hospital Cape Town South Africa 479 Ben Van Der Walt Director in Nutritional Advisory Forum Agree on the concern of Genetically Manipulated Food GNLD South Africa 480 Nicole Venter The Southern Health Ecology Institute SHAE Institute South Africa 481 Dr. SangSoo Hur Ph.D Lecturer Sociology of Science and Technology Sungkonghoe University South Korea 482 Prof. Suk Hwan Kim Ph.D Sociology of Science and Technology Kookmin University South korea 483 Bingbin LU International Law Transnational Law and Business University TLBU South Korea 484 Dr Gregorio Alvar Biotechnologist. Computense U. Madrid Spain 485 Javier Blasco Aragonese Ctr for Rural European Information Spain 486 Prof. F. Pura Duart-Soler Sociology Univ. Valencia PSRAST Spain 487 Prof. Ernest Garcia Ph. D. Ph. D. Sociology Univ. Valencia Dept. Sociologia I Antropologia Social Valencia Spain 488 ANDRES MAGANA B.Eng electronic instrumentation escorial sostenible Spain 489 Andres Magana Garcia B.Sc world heritage freelance consultant escorial sostenible Spain 490 Dr. Pablo Malo Psychiatrist Consultant Mental Health Center Bilbao Spain 491 Jose Ramon Olarieta Ph.D Soil Science Agriculture Land use Universitat de Lleida Spain 492 Dr. Rosario Sierra De Grado Ph.D Forest geneticist University of Valladolid Spain 493 Dr. Jagath Perera B.Eng electrical engineering uom SriLanka Sri Lanka 494 Adil Hassan Ahmed Abdelmageed Ph.D student Breeding of vegetable crops Vegetable Physiologist and researcher and lecturer University of Khartoum Sudan Sudan 495 Dr. Kamal El Siddig Ph.D Tree eco physiologist Sudan 496 Dr. Isameldeen Khair Ph.D Education and training Sennar University Sudan 497 Dr. Balgis Osman Elasha Ph.D Environmentalist Higher Council for Environment Natural Resources Sudan 498 Dr. Bo Dahlin Education Science Karlsbad University Karlsbad Sweden 499 Folke G Nther Ph.D student Sustainability issues and Ecological Engineering Systems Ecology Sweden 500 Prof. Every N. Gummesson Management Stockholm Univ. PSRAST Sweden 501 Folke Gunther Ph.D student Sustainability issues and Ecological Engineering Systems Ecology Sweden 502 Said O. Holmin Lic. Technology Rector Computer Science College of Creative Computer Science Stockholm Sweden 503 Dr. Katarina Leppanen History of Ideas Gothenburg Uni Sweden 504 Dr. Jaan Suurkula Physician Physicians and Scientists for Responsible Assessment of Science and Technology Stockholm Sweden 505 Dr. Daniel Amman Cell Biologist Tech. Switzerland 506 Dr. Charles Beard M.D General Practitioner CNBPharma Switzerland 507 Dr. Ruth Goseth Dermatologist ISDE Switzerland 508 Florianne Koechlin Biologist World Wildlife Fund Switzerland 509 Dr. Nicole Maestracci Beard Ph.D Microbiologist Virologist Immunologist Serono International Switzerland 510 Yvan Maillard dipl. Sc. Nat. ETH Environementalist Ecology Fribourg PSRAST Switzerland 511 Yves Schatzle Agronomist and Economist Switzerland 512 Verena Soldati Biotechnologist Basler Appell Switzerland 513 Dr. KuoChi Yeh M.D Geriatric Publich Health and Hospital Administration medical legal Taipei City Hospital Zhongxing Branch Taiwan 514 Arend De Haas M.Sc Conservation Ecologist African Conservation Foundation Tanzania 515 Mwanaidi Kafuye M.Sc HOLDER IN BIOCHEMISTRY NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH Tanzania 516 Dr. William Kisinza Ph.D Epidemiology Public Health Specialist National Institute for Medical Research Tanzania Tanzania 517 Danial Minja B.Sc PARASITOLOGY & MICROBIOLOGY NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH. Tanzania 518 Acleus Rutta M.Sc Immunologist National Institute For Medical Research Tanzania 519 Dr. Peter Burt Ph.D Water Quality Management Prince of Songkla university Thailand 520 Dr. Jidbhong Jayavasu Ph.D Medical Virologist Arogya Smasai Thailand 521 Prof. Omboom Luanratana Pharmacologist Univ. of Mahedol Bangkok Thailand 522 Piengporn Panutampon biology/medical biology Biothai (Thai Network on Community & Biodiversity) Thailand 523 Prof. Reungchai Tansakul Ph.D Biologist Prince of Songkla University Thailand 524 Lianchamroon Witoon Sustainable agriculture Biothai Thailand 525 Jaroen Compeerapap Environmental Law and Development Center The Netherlands 526 Jaap Hamers M.Sc Ecologist The Netherlands 527 Tedje Van Asseldonk M.Sc biology phytotherapy inst f ethnobotany zoopharmacognosy The Netherlands 528 Dr. Siirsel Tas Dizdar Ph.D Radiation Oncology Turkey 529 Prof. KANYANDAGO Peter Ph.D Expert and researcher in endogenous knowledge and African cultures Uganda Martyrs University Uganda 530 Dr. Michael L. Abrahams (retired) Aeronautics Bristol PSRAST UK 531 Maryam Al Alami Ph.D student Science in Society civic and stakeholder participation GM food law Manchester Metropolitan University UK 532 Michael Alexander M.Phil Theoretical Physics UK 533 Chris Anthony B.Sc Qualified amateur UK 534 Janey Antoniou M.Sc Molecular Biologist UK 535 Dr. Michael Antoniou Molecular Geneticist Guy's Hospital UK 536 Paula F. Baillie-Hamilton Academic Researcher on Pesticides Perthshire UK 537 Dr. Susan Bardocz Geneticist Aberdeen UK 538 Dr. Jeremy Bartlett Plant Molecular Geneticist (formerly John Innes Institute) UK 539 Manoel Bascoi Geneticist PhD Candidate JII UK 540 Dr. David Beasley Genetic Algorithm University of Bath UK 541 Dr. David Bellamy Biologist and Broadcaster London UK 542 Lynda Birke Biologist Liverpool Uni. Veterinary School UK 543 Dr. David A.H. 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