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David Quist is a senior scientist at GenØk - Centre for Biosafety in Tromsø, Norway. He received his PhD in 2004 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. David is on the UN's roster of experts for GMOs and Biosafety, and is engaged in research into devising relevant empirical and interpretive means for addressing uncertainty and error in risk research relating to GMOs.