Dr. Joseph F. Petolino, Dow AgroSciences (Indianapolis, IN), has been appointed Associate Editor for the Plant Biotechnology Journal. Dr. Allen Wenck been promoted to Head of Trait Validation at Bayer CropScience. Dr. Wenck has also graduated from North Carolina Central School of Law and has passed the North Carolina Bar Exam.
Ningning Zang, SIVB student member and student at Arkansas State University, has published his first manuscript as first author titled “Ethanol fermentation of energy beets by self-flocculating and non-flocculating yeasts” in the journal Bioresource Technology (155:189-197, 2014). Please use the following link to read the abstract for this publication. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24462879 Ningning was also co-author on the following book chapter: Frederick, N., N. Zhang, A. Djioleu, X. Ge, J. Xu, and D.J. Carrier. The effect of washing dilute acid pretreated poplar biomass on ethanol yields. In: Sustainable Degradation of Lignocellulosic Biomass – Techniques, Applications and Commercialization. A.K. Chandel and S.S. da Silva, eds, InTech Publishing, 2013, p105-118. Ningning was also the second place winner of the Doctoral Graduate Poster Presentation at the 2014 Annual Arkansas Soil & Water Education Conference (ASWEC) and the second place winner of the Graduate Oral presentation at the CREATE@STATE Meeting. |
Mae Ciancio, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Midwestern University (Downers Grove, IL), published the article titled “Exercise prevents weight gain and alters the gut microbiota in a mouse model of high fat diet-induced obesity” in the journal PLoS One (9(3):e92193, 2014). Please use the following link to read the abstract for this publication. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24670791 Dr. James Trosko, Professor of Pediatrics and Human Development, has retired after 48-years as a faculty member at Michigan State University. Use the following link to the Michigan State University Center for Integrative Toxicology Update publication to read about Dr. Trosko’s illustrious career and his contributions to In Vitro Biology. http://cit.msu.edu/News/MSUCITUpdate_winter14.pdf Kolla Kristjansdottir, Ph.D., SIVB member and Assistant Professor in Biomedical Sciences at Midwestern University (Downers Grove, IL), Steven Fass and big brother Oliver are delighted to announce the arrival of Viktor Stevensson Fass born on January 26, 2014. He weighed 7 pounds 6 ounces and was 21 inches long. |
The following Biotechnology training courses are being offered at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. These Workshops are sponsored by the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences. For more information on these workshops please visit www.biotrac.com.
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