Michael Horn

Currently writing business plan and soliciting financial support for launching molecular pharming company. The company will produce reagent proteins of high value as well as producing custom designed proteins for possible therapeutic use.

Responsible for establishing and managing a high throughput corn transformation and analysis groups for the production of corn with high sugar content and a concomitant increase in ethanol production per acre. Supervised 6 scientists.

Responsible for all activity in Cryobiology and Transprotein Production departments. Project leader for establishing protein production platform and developing proprietary new technology surrounding protein production in suspension cultured cells (11 scientists, $2.5M annual budget). Phyton closed 12/31/07 when parent company pulled support.

Responsible for all activity in Cell Biology Department and Laboratory Services. Project Leader for the HIV Oral Vaccine Project funded by the NIH. ProdiGene Safety Officer: 1999-2004. Facilities Manager 2002-2004. I continued to provide greenhouse oversight.

Project leader for successful novel corn transformation project (supervised 6 scientists). Also, Project Leader for successful nutritional improvement of peanut (supervised 3 scientists). Personally established ELISA protocols for analysis of transgenic plants. Later, project leader for promoter testing in cotton flower parts; also explored novel methods for cotton transformation. Lead author for six patent applications, three of which have issued.

Project leader for successful rice tissue culture project (supervised 5 scientists). Project leader for successful peanut mutation project for amino acid overproduction. Responsible for potato transformation project, successfully produced virus-resistant and insect-resistant plants which were field-tested in 1989. At Calgene (5/90-6/90), contributed to efforts at cotton and soybean transformation using particle bombardment of embryogenic suspension cultures. Lead author for five patent applications.

Primary investigator for successful establishment of one of the world's first transformation systems for small grains. Personally performed most of the molecular analyses. Lead author for 2 patent applications, one of which has issued.

Photoautotrophic soybean suspension cultures, Somatic hybridization, Nitrogen metabolism, Lipid metabolism, Carbon fixation,

Cyanide resistant respiration in tobacco suspension cultures