Anna Stepanova – Building a synbio toolbox to monitor and control plant hormone activity | GES Colloquium (Zoom)
Dr. Stepanova will talk about her group's efforts to harness the power of synthetic biology and develop new molecular tools to visualize the activity of plant hormones and gain tighter control over spatiotemporal patterns of gene expression....
Election Day! Vote then watch an old colloquium | GES Colloquium
In lieu of colloquium, we are encouraging everyone to vote today, then if you have some free time you can pick a past colloquium to watch from our video archive. ...Continue reading "Election Day! Vote then watch an old colloquium | GES Colloquium"
June Medford – Salt-tolerant Plants/Purified Water | GES Colloquium (Zoom)
Forthcoming...Continue reading "June Medford – Salt-tolerant Plants/Purified Water | GES Colloquium (Zoom)"
Louie Rivers – Decision Heuristics and Biases, Community Engagement and Justice | GES Colloquium (Zoom)
How our conceptualization of cognitive decision making biases and heuristics influences how we engage with underserved communities around issues of justice. ...
Andrew Flachs – Choices and performances in Indian GM cotton fields | GES Colloquium (Zoom)
Seeds are tools to ask how promising technology including GMOs and organic certification is used, learned, and adapted by farmers with consequences for rural wellbeing and sustainable agriculture....
Leo Fidjeland and Linnea Våglund – Pink Chicken Project | GES Colloquium (Zoom)
Pink Chicken Project suggests changing the color of the entire species Gallus gallus domesticus - using the recently invented CRISPR Gene Drive technique - coloring the geological trace of humankind, pink!...Continue reading "Leo Fidjeland and Linnea Våglund – Pink Chicken Project | GES Colloquium (Zoom)"
Rodolphe Barrangou – Catching up with the CRISPR craze | GES Colloquium (Zoom)
A discussion of the applications and implications of CRISPR-based technologies in Food, Ag, and beyond....Continue reading "Rodolphe Barrangou – Catching up with the CRISPR craze | GES Colloquium (Zoom)"
Jeremiah Fasano – Regulatory Decision-Making Tools for Novel Food Technologies | GES Colloquium (Zoom)
While the sections of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act governing food ingredient regulation have remained largely unchanged since the passage of the Food Additives Amendment of 1958, the FDA has shown that it is able to effectively regulate ingredients manufactured using new technologies under these existing broad statutory authorities to ensure the safety of substances added to food....
Sarah Richardson – How to Win Friends and Influence Bacteria | GES Colloquium (Zoom)
Bacteria rule the planet and we are going nowhere without their blessing....
RaJade Berry James – Cultural Perceptions of GM Foods | GES Colloquium (Zoom)
Regarding Genetically Modified Foods, does historical reality and social skepticism still matter? It depends....Continue reading "RaJade Berry James – Cultural Perceptions of GM Foods | GES Colloquium (Zoom)"