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Lyle Ralston
Bayer Crop Science
Crop Efficiency Platform Lead
Dr. Lyle Ralston is the Crop Efficiency Platform Lead in Plant Biotechnology R&D at Bayer Crop Science. Lyle has spent much of his 20+ year career focused on delivering innovative solutions for farmers, translating cutting edge biology into practical solutions for food security and sustainable agriculture. Lyle is focused on developing crops that are more resilient to the impacts of extreme weather events induced by climate change and that are more productive under sustainable management systems. He’s currently affiliated with Bayer’s cross-functional Crop Genome Editing initiative where he’s leading efforts to develop a scalable, efficient, and durable editing pipeline that will deliver edit-enhanced commercial germplasm in the coming decade. Prior to joining Plant Biotechnology R&D, Lyle held diverse positions in Regulatory in both the United States and Brazil, including regulatory science, regulatory affairs, and product stewardship. This end to end experience, from early R&D product development through global regulatory submissions and product stewardship, gives him a holistic view of what it takes to bring innovative, genome edited products to market responsibly and at scale. Before joining industry, Lyle was a USDA postdoctoral fellow at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, MO, where he worked on foundational research in plant biochemistry and deepened his commitment to improving the human condition through plant science. He holds a PhD in Plant Biology from the University of Kentucky and a BS in Biology from Gannon University.
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