Berries weren't always available year round. As the Jul 7, 2026 New York Times article by Julia Moskin explains, berry espionage was necessary in 1712 when Louis XIV had Chilean berries stolen so that they could be crossed with European berries and eventually yield berries in March, rather than waiting ...
I-Cultiver is a company that brings scientific innovation and analysis to agriculture. Through an agreement with iCultiver, CCC students in the BEST internship program work part-time as biotech interns and gain professional experience at the same time. BEST was started by Dr. Rajnish Khanna (i-Cultiver, Inc.) and Dr. Katherine Krolikowski ...
Welcome to the InnovATE BIO 2023 series of virtual ATE project talks. This series features leaders in biotechnology workforce education from across the US sharing their work on exciting projects funded by the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. The ATE program supports the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy. Our two speakers will talk about the question of why dogs are more social than wolves and how they implemented a course-based research projects to have students investigate this question. You'll ...
Agriculture--the word invokes fields of wheat, vines of tomatoes, bales of hay--doesn't it? But agriculture is much more than that today, and the field of AgBiotech is growing so fast there are not enough graduates to fill the job openings. These jobs can be found in labs, or at a ...
Welcome to the InnovATE BIO 2022 series of virtual ATE project talks. This series features leaders in biotechnology workforce education from across the US sharing their work on exciting projects funded by the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. The ATE program supports the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy. In the talk this week, we will learn about one project focused around agricultural biotechnology and another project focused on developing a workforce for biomanufacturing. Each talk will be 20 ...
Welcome to the InnovATE BIO 2022 series of virtual ATE project talks. This series features leaders in biotechnology workforce education from across the US sharing their work on exciting projects funded by the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. The ATE program supports the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy. In these talks, we'll learn about promoting more inclusive workplace practices and about working with industry to develop courses in genome editing. Each talk will be 20 minutes, followed by 15 ...
Doreen Ware, Ph.D., Molecular Biologist, USDA Agricultural Research Service and Adjunct Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York Breeding for 2050 and beyond will require designing plants for new environments and preparing them for new diseases, while they are still offshore. Key to this effort will be access to high-quality genomes and annotations for agricultural species and their pests. The genomes of many plants have been sequenced over the past decade, but these are usually limited to one reference assembly. The available genomes are often fragmented and missing complex repeat
Zach Bateson, Ph.D., Research Scientist, National Agricultural Genotyping Center, Fargo, ND Pests and pathogens account for up to 30% of the annual losses in food crops worldwide. All agricultural commodities are negatively impacted by pests, either directly in the field or indirectly through the supply chain. Molecular diagnostics to identify and manage threats in agriculture lag behind diagnostic applications in the medical sciences, despite deep connections between agriculture and human health. In this webinar, I describe the diagnostic biotechnology used at the National Agricultural
Rob Martienssen, Ph.D, Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY The African oil palm is the most efficient oil bearing crop, but demand for edible oils and biofuels, combined with sustainability concerns over dwindling rainforest reserves, has led to intense pressure to improve oil palm yield. The fruit abnormality, mantled, is a somaclonal variant arising from tissue culture that drastically reduces yield—and has largely halted efforts to clone elite hybrids for oil production. Using epigenome wide association studies, we found that loss of methylation of a LINE retrotransposon related to
Rob Martienssen, Ph.D, Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY The African oil palm is the most efficient oil bearing crop, but demand for edible oils and biofuels, combined with sustainability concerns over dwindling rainforest reserves, has led to intense pressure to improve oil palm yield ...
Doreen Ware, Ph.D., Molecular Biologist, USDA Agricultural Research Service and Adjunct Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York Breeding for 2050 and beyond will require designing plants for new environments and preparing them for new diseases, while they are still offshore. Key to this ...
Laurie Issel-Tarver from Ohlone College sent me a link to this new AgBiotech curriculum resource from the FDA. This was jointly developed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA). It's called " Science and the Food Supply" - Exploring Food Agriculture and Biotechnology ...
InnovATE BIO National Biotechnology Education Center and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory invite you to a mini-symposium on emerging technologies in Agricultural Biotechnology. High school and college faculty and students are welcome to attend this free webinar. Registration is required. 1:00 pm EST Agricultural Genomics: The Rise of Genomes Doreen Ware, Ph.D., Molecular Biologist, USDA Agricultural Research Service and Adjunct Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York Breeding for 2050 and beyond will require designing plants for new environments and preparing them for new diseases ...
The Agricultural Genomics Foundation (AGF), a nonprofit dedicated to scientific cannabis research has sponsored a new podcast called "Cannabis Science Today, " which focuses on the scientific and medical research in this field. The podcast is available to play on the AGF website and for download on Apple Podcasts, Spotify ...
Alamance Community College has developed a new Agricultural Biotechnology Degree Program to meet workforce needs for people interested in both horticulture and biotechnology.
After two years of attending the Worthington Bio Conference, I am convinced it is one of the most enjoyable experiences of my post-teaching career. There are such interesting presentations at this conference and it is truly amazing that such a small town can make such a huge impact on the ...
Madison College student blogger Mandy Hunter is back on-line and raring to go! No bull! Mandy ponders what it means to be called a "scientist" and shares her summer internship experience working in the barns and learning how to collect semen. I can't believe I just started the third and ...
