Owain Edwards – Accelerating evolution: Engineering resilience in corals to elevated sea temperatures | GES Colloquium (Zoom)
Coral bleaching can be prevented by replacing the coral's symbiotic microalgae with strains that have been made more heat tolerant using assisted evolution....CLASSES CANCELLED – Anna Stepanova rescheduled to Nov. 10
Dr. Stepanova rescheduled to Nov. 10...Continue reading "CLASSES CANCELLED – Anna Stepanova rescheduled to Nov. 10"
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)"
Perspectives on the new USDA regulation on GM crops | GES Colloquium
GES faculty will review how the new USDA rule changes regulation of GM crops in comparison to the agency's previous regulatory approach and in light of findings from the 2016 NASEM GM Crops committee. Diverse perspectives on the new USDA rule will be shared followed by Q and A and discussion with the attendees....Continue reading "Perspectives on the new USDA regulation on GM crops | GES Colloquium"
COVID-19’s Global Impact: Interdisciplinary perspectives from inside GES, looking out | GES Colloquium
Join us for a discussion with an all-star cast of GES faculty, scholars and graduate students as they reflect upon COVID-19, our preparedness, response, and its impacts on our global community. Final Colloquium of the semester!...
Margo Bagley – “What’s Yours is Mine and What’s Mine is Mine”: Digital Sequence Information, Patents, and Benefit-sharing Obligations | GES Colloquium
Margo Bagley, JD, joins us from Emory University School of Law to explore issues surrounding international benefit-sharing obligations arising from the use of digital sequence information in synthetic biology research, with a focus on agricultural biotechnology....
Jean Goodwin – Scientists’ Responsibilities in the Public Sphere: the Case of COVID Mask Recommendations | GES Colloquium
A case study of a current COVID-19 debate will provide an opportunity to reflect on scientists' public responsibilities....
Jean Beagle Ristaino – Tackling the Global Challenges of Emerging Plant Diseases | GES Colloquium
Emerging plant diseases threaten many foods crops including those we eat for breakfast such as coffee, oranges, banana and potatoes. Plant pathogens cause global losses estimated to be as high as $33 billion per year. Jean Ristaino will discuss the latest research on P. infestans, the pathogen that caused the Irish famine and other plant diseases and their impact on global food security...
Carlos Iglesias – The future of protein production and its implications | GES Colloquium
Innovations in food processing, together with synthetic biology, genomics and data analytics is posed to disrupt the food protein market. The ripples could reach most areas related to food and agri-business globally....
CANCELLED | GES Colloquium
With the new public health policies put in place this week and the extension of Spring Break due to the coronavirus COVID-19, colloquium is cancelled on March 17. Moving forward, we will continue with colloquium as an online course, either via Mediasite or Zoom. We will send out more information as it become available....
Jose Alonso – Implementing recombineering to study gene function in plants | GES Colloquium
Dr. Alonso to discuss how high-efficiency homologous recombination in bacteria facilitates the study of gene function in plants...
Darrell Stover – Science Poetry: Case of the Two Rita’s | GES Colloquium
What is science poetry and how is it that we can have two women named Rita successful in two seemingly separate fields, literature and microbiology, providing inspiration for science communication? The poem, "The Two Rita's," examines the time parallels of the contributions of Rita Dove and Rita Colwell....Continue reading "Darrell Stover – Science Poetry: Case of the Two Rita’s | GES Colloquium"
Elizabeth Bennett – Synthetic biology and biodiversity conservation | GES Colloquium
Elizabeth Bennett, of Wildlife Conservation Society, on the possible applications of synthetic biology to biodiversity conservation, and their pros and cons...