Date/Time
Date(s) - Sunday, March 25, 2018
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Location
Biotech Without Borders

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Many plants and vegetables you see in the supermarket today are produced using tissue culture, and it’s a fundamental skill required for genetic engineering of plants. In this 3-hour workshop, students will learn the fascinating history of this technique in research and agriculture, the basic principles of plant somatic embryogenesis, and how this process can be used to propagate various plants. Students will learn sterile tissue culture technique and make their own cultures to take home. No experience in biology is necessary and all are welcome.

Optional: Bring you own seeds!

Instructor

Tina Shin Lai is a scientist at Brooklyn Bio. She holds a master’s degree from the Penn State Plant Biology Graduate Program: Hucks Life Science Institute where her work focused on improving Somatic Embryogenesis in Theobroma cacao. She received her BSc in Biology specializing in Plants from Penn State University in 2011. Her previous research areas involve analyzing the effects of arabinose and xylose content in Brachypodium on cell wall digestibility and studying the effects of basal root growth angles on drought in common bean varieties.