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Ms. Volrath was employed for 14 years as a research scientist at the Ciba-Geigy/Novartis/Syngenta agricultural biotechnology research unit in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Her research responsibilities included the areas of disease resistance, herbicide target validation, herbicide tolerant crop production, and the engineering of grain quality traits in transgenic maize. She was a key member of the team that invented Acuron herbicide tolerance technology. She is an inventor on 4 issued US patents and multiple pending patent applications, particularly related to Acuron technology, and she is an author on 11 scientific publications. Ms. Volrath received a B.S. in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a M.A. in Biochemistry from Duke University. | 