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)"
Sarah Richardson – How to Win Friends and Influence Bacteria | GES Colloquium (Zoom)
Bacteria rule the planet and we are going nowhere without their blessing....
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....
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)"
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)"