Kevin M. Folta is a professor and chairman of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida, he has been active as a science communicator especially relating to biotechnology, he operates and hosts the Talking Biotech podcast which is billed as a science-based assessment of new technology and the future of food, in which he interviews agriculture scientists and experts in the fields of science and communication to discuss the genetic improvement of plants, animals and microbes and other issues in biotechnology.