Next Colloquium: Tuesday, 1/25, 12 PM ET
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Heike Sederoff, PhD, Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology, NC State
Website | @hsederoff
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Abstract
Greenhouse agriculture is in general more sustainable than any open field production – if it wasn’t for the enormous consumption of energy for light and space conditioning. I will present and discuss our development of a new type of self-powering greenhouse that uses semi-transparent organic photovoltaics to control radiation and produce energy. How far can we drive this technology? Which crops can be grown and how can biotechnology further facilitate economic viability of these solar greenhouses?
Related links:
- Next Generation of Greenhouses May Be Fully Solar Powered, NC State News, 2/7/2020
- Study Finds Plants Would Grow Well in Solar Cell Greenhouses, NC State News, 3/17/2021
- Achieving Net Zero Energy Greenhouses by Integrating Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells (PDF)
Ravishankar, E. Booth, R.E., Saravitz, C., Sederoff, H., Ade, H.W., O’Connor, B.T. Joule, 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.joule.2019.12.018
- Balancing crop production and energy harvesting in organic solar-powered greenhouses (PDF)
Ravishankar, E., Charles, M., Xiong, Y., Henry, R., Swift, J., Sederoff, H. et al. Cell Reports Physical Science, 2021 doi: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2021.100381
Full details and speaker bio at https://research.ncsu.edu/ges/event/ges-colloquium-2022-01-25/
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The February 1st deadline is fast approaching to apply to the final AgBioFEWS Fellowship Cohort! Learn more (and watch the video from our December Q&A session with Fred Gould and Dawn Rodriguez-Ward) at go.ncsu.edu/agbiofews.
Scholars in the humanities and social sciences and/or underrepresented minorities are especially encouraged to apply.
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Short film: "Saving the American Chestnut: A Case Study"
Premiere Jan. 21 at 1 PM ET on YouTube | Presented by iBiology, Science Communication Lab
- GES Affiliates Drs. Jason Delborne and Jack Wang will join a panel discussing how CRISPR could help make forests more resilient to climate change on Thurs., Feb. 3 at 3 PM ET via Zoom (REGISTER)
 “The Future of Microbial Biotechnology: From Research to Regulation"
Wed.-Thurs., Feb. 2 -3 — Presented by USDA, Innovative Genomics Institute, and Phytobiomes Alliance | REGISTER
- GES Co-Director, Dr. Jennifer Kuzma, will join a panel discussion on "on "Societal Engagement and Public Education," on Feb 3 at 11:30 AM ET
 Guest Lecture by Dr. George Church: “The Future of Mulitplex Medicine via Dogs, Elephants, Ferrets, & Pigs”
Wed., Jan. 26, 1 PM ET — Presented by the Comparative Molecular Medicine Training program, NC State | ZOOM
- George M. Church, Ph.D. is Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, a founding member of the Wyss Institute, and director of PersonalGenomes.org, the world’s only open-access information on human genomic, environmental, and trait data
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Kokotovich, A.E., Kuzma, J., Cummings, C.L., Grieger, K.. Nanoethics (2021). doi: 10.1007/s11569-021-00404-9 PDF
Kuzma, Jennifer. In Gene Editing in the Wild: Shaping Decisions through Broad Public Deliberation, ed. Michael K. Gusmano et al., special report, Hastings Center Report 51, no. S2 (2021): S25– S33. DOI: 10.1002/hast.1317 PDF
Barnhill-Dilling, S. Kathleen, Kokotovich, Adam, and Delborne, Jason A. In Gene Editing in the Wild: Shaping Decisions through Broad Public Deliberation, ed. Michael K. Gusmano et al., special report, Hastings Center Report 51, no. S2 (2021): S48– S61. DOI: 10.1002/hast.1320 PDF
Katherine L. Taylor, Kelly A. Hamby, Alexandra M. DeYonke, Fred Gould, Megan L. Fritz. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Dec 2021, 118 (52) e2020853118; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2020853118 PDF
Grieger, K.D, Merck, A.W., Cuchiara, M., Binder, A.R., Kokotovich, A., Cummings, C.L., Kuzma, J. NanoImpact,(2021), doi: 10.1016/j.impact.2021.100365. PDF
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