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Emilia Tikka – EUDAIMONIA (Art’s Work/Genetic Futures) | GES Colloquium
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Cami Ryan on being a social scientist in the Ag industry | GES Colloquium
Cami Ryan joins us from Bayer CropScience and explores the challenges of food, technology, and societies through the lens of a “boundary spanning” personal narrative: a social scientist working in the ag industry....Continue reading "Cami Ryan on being a social scientist in the Ag industry | GES Colloquium"
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Brandon Hollingsworth on Preventing dengue using Wolbachia infected mosquitoes | GES Colloquium
Dengue is estimated to infect 390 million individuals a year worldwide, with around 3.9 billion people at risk of infection. Currently, there are no licensed vaccinations or therapeutic treatments for the disease and control of the vector species through conventional methods has proven inefficient and costly. One possible novel vector control technique to prevent outbreaks relies on infection with the bacterium, Wolbachia....
Lyubov Kurkalova – North Carolina crop rotations and cropland use intensity | GES Colloquium
North Carolina is one of the most physio-geographically diverse states in the southern U.S, resulting in the majority of the state’s crop production the eastern Coastal Plains. We analyze the dynamics of cropland use intensity here, and are developing tools to improve the precision of environmental assessments of crop production in NC....
Modeling the impact of GM insect releases on resistance management and yields in GM crop fields | GES Colloquium
A novel proposed strategy combines the traditional planting of non-insecticidal refuge with releasing GM insects that are Bt-susceptible and have a repressible, female-specific lethal gene....
CALS Spotlight on Fred Gould: How Do We Communicate Genetic Engineering?
Dee Shore, Fall 2019 | NC State professor and genetic engineer Fred Gould is focused on clear communication and the public good....Continue reading "CALS Spotlight on Fred Gould: How Do We Communicate Genetic Engineering?"
