** FOR THIS EVENT ONLY:
PERIODIC TABLES WILL BE HOSTED AT DURHAM MUSEUM OF LIFE + SCIENCE AND ON A THURSDAY AT 5:30PM **
As the Senior Program Officer in Crops R&D at the Gates Foundation, Dr. Nicholas Bate will share his unique perspective on food and the disparities between high- and low-income countries.
Dr. Nicholas Bate is a Senior Program Officer in the Crops R&D team at the Gates Foundation, managing a portfolio of projects that focus on gene editing to develop solutions for small holder farmers in Sub Saharan Africa and South Asia. Nic began his agricultural research journey as a summer intern with Agriculture Canada, which motivated him to attend graduate school at the University of Guelph. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Salk Institute, Nic held roles at Agriculture Canada, Pioneer Hi-Bred, and Syngenta, where his Group Leader responsibilities led him to supervise teams in North Carolina, Beijing, and Stein, Switzerland. Most recently, Nic spent 4 years at Pairwise, a gene-editing startup in North Carolina, before joining the foundation.
