MEDIA ADVISORY

November 26, 2001

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                               CONTACT: Elizabeth Conlisk (614) 292-3040

Professor to speak on biosecurity at National Press Club

Plant pathologist part of bioterrorism panel

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Laurence V. Madden, professor of plant pathology at The Ohio State University, will be a panelist on the American Institute of Biological Sciences’ (AIBS) first roundtable discussion on bioterrorism. The event is from noon to 3 p.m. Friday in the National Press Club’s First Amendment Lounge.

Madden is a member of the National Academy of Sciences committee for the forthcoming report, "Biological Threats to Agricultural Plants and Animals," and senior author of the January 2002 BioScience article from AIBS titled, "A Population-Dynamic Approach to Assess the Threat of Plant Pathogens as Biological Weapons Against Annual Crops.”

Madden joins Mark Wheelis, a microbiology professor at the University of California-Davis; Rocco Casagrande of Surface Logix, Brighton, Mass.; and a representative from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the panel.

For more information, contact Marsha Brown of the AIBS at 202-628-1500, ext. 202, or mbrown@aibs.org.

  

WHAT:            Laurence V. Madden, Ohio State professor of plant pathology, on a National Press Club panel

WHEN:            Noon to 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30

WHERE:         First Amendment Lounge, National Press Club, 529 14^th St. NW, 13^th floor, Washington, D.C.                       

WHY:              To discuss potential biological threats to the U.S. food supply                           

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