The 2017 Green Life Science symposium at the University of Michigan will bring together nationally- and internationally-known experts in green life sciences (including U-M alumni) to talk with and to U-M students and faculty about the latest developments in genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Participants may choose from a variety of talks and join experts in the field and fellow…
Author: Anna Leah Cihak
A question for Plant Scientists: “So, why is what you do important?”
A post on Plantae.org by Alyssa Preiser examines this question: “So, why is what you do important?” Telling others that what we do matters. Every holiday season, at least one relative may ask you the question “What do you do?”. Your response – “I study plants” – is immediately followed by an awkward pause and either an unsure…
Are you Plant Blind? EEB Grad. Student, Alex Taylor, Examines the Phenomenon
by Alex Taylor, Published in “In Good Tilth,” Oct. 12, 2016 “So that’s how asparagus grows!” When showing off my vegetable garden, I’m often met by this kind of reaction, leaving me somewhat flummoxed. But then what is surprising about someone never having seen an asparagus plant before? Of course people know that their asparagus,…
U-M’s Stephen Smith joins effort to sequence 10,000 genomes
by Dennis Normile (Published in Science, July 27, 2017) SHENZEN, CHINA—Hopes of sequencing the DNA of every living thing on Earth are taking a step forward with the announcement of plans to sequence at least 10,000 genomes representing every major clade of plants and eukaryotic microbes. Chinese sequencing giant BGI and the China National GeneBank…