Ignacio Chapela is an microbial ecologist and mycologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and an outspoken critic of the University's ties to the biotechnology industry. He is also notable for authorship of a controversial Nature paper about the flow of transgenes in to wild Mexican maize. In 2005, studies published in PNAS by Mexican scientists do not support Chapela's findings. Chapela is also notable for his work with natural resources and indigenous rights. Wikipedia
Ignacio Chapela , ecologist and assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has been denied tenure. He received notice on 26 November 2003 that his academic contract will expire next June. But some of his colleagues are questioning th en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacio_Chapela
