Position: Research fellow
Phone: +47 90 94 82 68
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E-mail: david.quist@genok.no

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Research project:
Structural and functional analysis of the cryIAb (Bt) insecticidal protein produced in different biological hosts and environments

Dr. David Quist is currently a senior scientist at the Norwegian Institute of Gene Ecology in Tromsø, Norway. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied the fate of transgenic DNA in traditional varieties of maize in Oaxaca, Mexico. David’s research interests focus on interactions, rather than static descriptive states of novel biologics in different host milieus. His current work focuses on the biology and detection of transgenes in varying biological and ecological contexts, risk research in emerging biotechnologies, and epigenetic interactions at multiple levels of biological organization.

Publications

Heinemann, J.A., Kurenbach, B., Quist, D. (2011). Molecular profiling - a tool for addressing emerging gaps in the comparative risk assessment of GMOs. Environment International. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2011.05.006

Quist, D. 2010. Hvem skal vokte vokterene? Nationen, January 25, 2010. http://www.nationen.no/meninger/leserbrev/article4824634.ece

Quist, D; Bøhn, T, 2009.“Lukk igjen øynene og gap opp“ Nordlys, January 6, 2009.

Quist D. 2007. “Vertical (trans)gene flow: Implications for crop diversity and wild relatives”. In: Lim Li Ching and Terje Traavik (Editors in Chief). 2007. Biosafety First: Holistic Approaches to Risk and Uncertainty in Genetic Engineering and Genetically Modified Organisms. Tapir Academic Press, Trondheim, Norway, pp 205-217.

Quist D, Nielsen KM and Traavik T. 2007. “The complex and interactive pathway from (trans)genes to proteins”. In: Lim Li Ching and Terje Traavik (Editors in Chief). 2007. Biosafety First: Holistic Approaches to Risk and Uncertainty in Genetic Engineering and Genetically Modified Organisms. Tapir Academic Press, Trondheim, Norway, pp. 49-64.

Quist D, Nielsen KM and Traavik T. 2007. “Introduction to some basic molecular features of genetic information: From DNA to proteins”. In: Lim Li Ching and Terje Traavik (Editors in Chief). 2007. Biosafety First: Holistic Approaches to Risk and Uncertainty in Genetic Engineering and Genetically Modified Organisms. Tapir Academic Press, Trondheim, Norway, pp. 41-48.

Traavik T, Quist D and Nielsen KM. 2007. “Genetically engineered cells and organisms: are they substantially equivalent to their unmodified counterparts?” In: Lim Li Ching and Terje Traavik (Editors in Chief). 2007. Biosafety First: Holistic Approaches to Risk and Uncertainty in Genetic Engineering and Genetically Modified Organisms. Tapir Academic Press, Trondheim, Norway, pp. 137-152.

Traavik T, Nielsen KM and Quist D. 2007. “Genetic engineering of Living Cells and Organisms”. In: Lim Li Ching and Terje Traavik (Editors in Chief). 2007. Biosafety First: Holistic Approaches to Risk and Uncertainty in Genetic Engineering and Genetically Modified Organisms. Tapir Academic Press, Trondheim, Norway, pp 65-94 .

Quist, D., and Traavik, T., 2006. Safety assessment of GMOs: Human risks and research needs. Proceedings of the International workshop on biosafety: Environmental Impacts and Safety Regulation of Genetically Modified Organisms, Nanjing, China, China Environmental Press, p. 11-21.

Quist, D., 2005. Commentary: “Seeds of doubt still strong on Biotech crops” Wall Street Journal, December 15, 2005.

Quist, D., 2004. Transgene ecology: An ecological perspective for GMO risk assessment.
In: Breckling B & Verhoeven R (eds) Risk Hazard Damage - Specification of criteria to assess environmental impact of genetically modified organisms. Bonn, Bundesamt für Naturschutz, Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 1:239-244

Quist, D., 2003. Putting Genes in Chloroplast Not "Environmentally Friendly”. ISIS 17:1 24-26.

Quist, D. & Chapela, I.H., 2002. Communications Arising: Response to criticism of "Transgenic DNA introgressed into traditional maize landraces in Oaxaca, Mexico". Nature 416: 602

Quist, D. & Chapela, I.H., 2001. Transgenic DNA introgressed into traditional maize landraces in Oaxaca, Mexico. Nature 414: 541-543.

Quist, D; Garbelotto, M; Wu, D.P; Weber, M; and Chapela, I.H., 2000. Diversidad ectomicorrícica de Oreomunnea mexicana (Juglandaceae) en la Sierra Juárez, Oaxaca: Consideraciónes ecologicas de la micotrofía en comunidades forestales monodominantes. Boletin de la Reunión Iberoamericana y III Symposium Nacional sobre Simbiosis Micorrízica, p. 62.

Seidl, Michelle, Liu, Yajuan, Rogers, Scott, Quist, David and Ammirati, Joe. 2000. Another view of the genus Cortinarius. Abstract in: MSA Bulletin p. 68.

Quist, D, Garbelotto, M, and Chapela, I.H., 1999. Mycorrhizal ecology of Oreommunea: Implications of fungal community structure on plant distribution and diversity. Preliminary investigations in the Sierra Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico. Abstract in: Libro de resúmenes del III Congreso Latinoamericano de Micología, p. 99-100.

Wu, Q-X.; Mueller, G.M, Quist, D. and Huang, Y-Q, 1998. Preliminary assessment of macrofungal diversity in the temperate forests of Chang Bai Mountain, China. Abstract in: Mycological Soc. of Am Ann. Mtg, Inoculum 48: 7.

Quist, D. and J.F. Ammirati, 1996. Assessing the mycorrhizal potential of Xylaria sp. in epiphytic Orchidaceae. Abstract in: First International Conference on Mycorrhizae (ICOM I), Bulletin, p. 99.

Posters

2009. Quist, D., Strætkvern, K.O, Swain, T; Tümmler, C; Munthali, T; Traavik, T, “Structural and functional analysis of the cryIAb (Bt) insecticidal protein produced in different biological hosts”. Conference on Hazard ID and Risk Assessment of (Trans)gene Flow, Centre for Biosafety, Tromsø, Norway.

2004. “Bridging the gaps in biosafety research”. 8th International Symposium on the Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms. Montpellier, France.

1999."Diversidad ectomicorrícica de Oreomunnea mexicana (Juglandaceae) en la Sierra Juárez, Oaxaca: Consideraciónes ecologicas de la micotrofía en comunidades forestales monodominantes". III Congreso Latinoamericano de Micología, Caracas, Venezuela.

1995. "Assessing the mycorrhizal potential of Xylaria sp. in epiphytic Orchidaceae". First International Conference on Mycorrhizae (ICOM I), Berkeley, CA.