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What Has Been Done?
Island Mice Project Conserving Island Biodiversity Why Biodiversity Matters What has been done? What are the Current Options? What can Genetic Engineering Offer? What is The Future? About Us Overview Islands are home to an enormous…
Why Biodiversity Matters
Island Mice Project Conserving Island Biodiversity Why Biodiversity Matters What has been done? What are the Current Options? What can Genetic Engineering Offer? What is The Future? About Us Why Biodiversity Matters It is very easy…
Courses
Each student receives a PhD degree in an academic graduate program with a minor in Genetic Engineering and Society. All students take four core IGERT courses, and the full curriculum for each student is customized….
2012 Cohort Focus
Mosquitoes & Human Health The Problem Mosquitoes are vectors of several important human diseases, including malaria and dengue fever. Our first student cohort concentrated on the mosquito, Aedes aegypti, that transmits dengue to over 100…
OECD Co-operative Research Programme Funded Workshop
Environmental Release of Engineered Pests: Building an International Governance Framework October 5 – 6, 2016 Agenda Download PDF Impetus for the Workshop There has been intense research and development of new gene drive technologies, with…
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A Roadmap to Gene Drives: A Deliberative Workshop to Develop Frameworks for Research and Governance
February 24 – 26, 2016 Impetus for the Workshop In an era of forward thinking and innovation, the world faces more complex and thought-provoking problems than it has ever dealt with before. These problems sometimes…
USDA Grants $6.7M to Curb Fruit Pest
NC State entomologist Hannah Burrack will lead a four-year effort to manage the spotted wing drosophila, a tiny fruit fly that causes hundreds of millions of dollars in annual agricultural losses.