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Oxford Botanic Garden lectures: GM, food security, pharmaceuticals and more.
A series of 12 lectures from the Oxford Botanic Garden, with leading academics speaking on a variety of cutting edge topics in plant biology, including GM, food security, and pharmaceuticals.
Qihua Ling
I have been interested in plants since I was little. And later I heard that there is a place called Kew Gardens in England, where a huge collection of plants from all over the world can be found. Since then, I had always dreamed of visiting Kew Gardens, and enjoying her beauty for all four seasons. And that dream finally came true luckily...
Lecture: The reversal of cell differentiation and prospects for cell replacement therapy
Lecture by developmental biologist John Gurdon titled 'The reversal of cell differentiation and prospects for cell replacement therapy' - part of a series of guest lectures given by eminent speakers in the field of genetics and biomedicine in memory of the late Dr Anne McLaren FRS.
To hear about this fascinating and cutting-edge topic,...
Changing plant chloroplasts to improve crop performance
Chloroplasts are tiny protein-filled units within plant cells. As well as being responsible for photosynthesis, they are critical to a plant's ability to respond to its environment (for example, to the intensity of light or the threat of disease). They do this by importing the proteins they need - and getting rid of those they don't need....
Hayley Tumas
Growing up on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and in the woods of the Appalachian Mountains in Maryland (USA), I have always loved and been fascinated by nature. By the time I enrolled in university at the University of Maryland, I knew that I wanted a career that would allow me to work towards protecting our natural world. I originally...
