GMO Technology and the Future of Food
Kevin Folta
Wednesday, 25 Mar 2015 at 7:00 pm – Dolezal Auditorium, 127 Curtiss Hall
Kevin Folta is a professor in and chairman of the Horticultural Sciences at the University of Florida. He runs the Bio-talk-nowledge-y website, a program designed to help scientists learn the facts about biotechnology and then better communicate them. His research focuses how plants sense and respond to various wavelengths of light, and how LED illumination can be used to control plant traits. His lab also examines the genetic basis of key plant traits using modern genomics tools. Folta received his PhD in molecular biology from University of Illinois at Chicago and previously worked at University of Wisconsin.Cosponsored By:
- Food Science & Human Nutrition
- Horticulture
- Interdepartmental Genetics & Genomics Grad Program
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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