College of Forestry

Steve Strauss, an Oregon State University professor who studies biotechnology, said lawmakers should ask themselves whether they want Oregon agriculture to be known for innovation or for exclusion.

Steve Strauss presented a lecture on GMOs, society and forest health at the University of Florida, February 2017. See the pdf of the lecture on the presentations page.

Strauss used Skype to present a summary of GMO crop science and controversy to Sheldon High School Science Class in Eugene, OR, February 2017. A pdf of the lecture is available on the presentations page.

Strauss lectures on science and controversy over GMO crops at Salem Public Library as part of Salem Environmental Education Series, February 2017.  A pdf of the lecture is available on the presentations page.

Steve Strauss is a co-author on the recently released New Phytologist publication, Reproductive modification in forest plantations: impacts on biodiversity and society.

Steve Strauss delivered a presentation titled "CRISPR Technology and Gene Editing Possibilities" in January. View a pdf of the presentation.

Steve Strauss was recently interviewed on Idaho Agribusiness Today about saving pine forests.

“Many crop species, and many of the valuable varieties within them, remain extremely difficult to genetically engineer,” said Steve Strauss, OSU distinguished professor in the College of Forestry and project leader. “This greatly limits the ability of this method to be used for plant breeding and scientific research. There can be blockages at any of the several steps. Regeneration of modified cells into plants is usually the most difficult to overcome.”

There is a new position in our lab for a faculty research assistant to perform tissue culture work and DNA analysis for a new NSF funded project underway. See posting P00822UF on the OSU jobs site.

Steve Strauss collaborates with legal scholar Sax to propose major revision to regulation of GMO crops in Nature Biotechnology (May 2016)