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Thomas Brutnell
Dr. Brutnell has over 30 years of experience in agricultural biotechnology in both academia and industry. He is the co-founder and former CSO of Benson Hill where he led the development of the R&D pipeline including computational resources driving trait selection in a host of crop plants. Realizing the opportunities that advances in AI could bring to predictive breeding, he co-founded DNA Harvest Partners together with Dr. Avi Kaler, a quantitative geneticist and plant breeder, who designed and built the predictive breeding architecture at Benson Hill, and Paul Chomet, former Senior Technical Solutions Specialist at NRGene and senior fellow at Monsanto Co. who led the DNA Marker Discovery Platform, drought discovery team, and the biotech trait advancement program for 24 years.
Dr. Brutnell received his PhD from Yale University, conducted postdoctoral studies at the University of Oxford and was Principal Investigator at the Boyce Thompson Institute and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. Dr. Brutnell also serves as a consultant for Gateway Biotechnology, where he directs pharmacogenomics programs for potential tinnitus therapies, including natural products derived from traditional Chinese medicinal plants.
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Innovation stage // Innovation showcase: Five breakthrough agri-innovations shaping the value chain28-Oct-2026Networking Hub
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