Biography

Ros Gleadow is Emerita Professor of Plant Sciences at Monash University and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. She researches the effect of climate change on food security with a focus on plants that make cyanide and other toxins and the impact on human and animal health. Current projects are on the effect of CO2, temperature and salinity on growth and allocation of resources in sorghum, cassava, cycads and taro working in Africa, the Pacific Islands and Australia. Until recently, Prof Gleadow led and transformed the Monash undergraduate program on scientific practice and communication. She is passionate about plants and the need to communicate the issues around sustainable food production. She is Chair of the International Safe Cassava network, Past President of the Global Plant Council, chair of the board of Eucalypt Australia, and past Director of the Monash Agtech LaunchPad. She is a member of the advisory board for the Agricultural Biotechnology Council of Australia and a former member of the Australian Academy of Science's Committee for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, among others.

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