Visual Science
Linda Kinkel's research focuses on the ecology of microbial communities in native prairie and agricultural soils. Kinkel's work on the ecology and evolutionary biology of streptomycetes and other antibiotic producing bacteria has potential applications in the...
A Helpful Fungus Among Us
Some experts estimate that there are over two million species of fungi living on Earth today. Excellent scavengers and nutrient recyclers, many fungi also gather materials from their surroundings and can even capture and store environmental contaminants.
Bio & Tech Innovation Flash Talks
Event DetailsBio & Tech Innovation Flash Talks The Bio & Tech Innovation (BTI) Series is a seminar series led by graduate students and postdocs to foster career development in industrial applications and academic research in biotechnology-related fields.Flash...
Ben Shen
Ben Shen Scripps Leveraging a large microbial strain collection for natural products studies Scripps Florida houses one of the world’s largest actinobacterial strain collections, totaling >125,00 strains. These strains were isolated over the last eight decades and...
Michi Taga
Michi Taga University of California, Berkeley Corrinoids in Communities: Nutrient sharing in the microbial world Microbial communities inhabit nearly all environments on earth. These communities are often composed of hundreds or more species that form networks of...
Ariel Furst
Event DetailsAriel Furst Massachusetts Institute of Technology WebsiteBio-derived materials for sustainability & environmental remediation Significant effort has been devoted to developing chemistries to effectively mimic biological processes. Despite decades of...
Ben Shen
Scripps Website THURSDAY I APR. 28 I 3:30-4:30 PM CST I HYBRID SEMINARTO JOIN REMOTELY, GO TO: Z.UMN.EDU/BTI-2022-SPRING-SEMINARS
Michi Taga
University of California, Berkeley Website THURSDAY I APR. 14 I 3:30-4:30 PM CST I HYBRID SEMINARTO JOIN REMOTELY, GO TO: Z.UMN.EDU/BTI-2022-SPRING-SEMINARS Will HarcombeJeff Gralnick