Earth, Environmental & Agricultural Sciences
Dr Mirjam Knörnschild – Bats In Translation
Dr Mirjam Knörnschild and her group at the Free University Berlin study the acoustic communication and social behaviour of wild bats to understand the evolutionary interplay of social and vocal complexity, the functional significance of culturally transmitted song...
Professor Joyce Van Eck – Improving Crops By Genetic Engineering And Targeted Genome Editing
Located at the Boyce Thompson Institute, an independent affiliate of Cornell University, the Van Eck lab explores novel methods for major crop improvement possibilities offered by a powerful gene editing method called CRISPR/Cas9. Portrait of a bioengineer Professor...
Professor Nathan E. Rank | Professor Elizabeth P. Dahlhoff – Exploring Evolution By Studying Beetles Living On The Edge
Professors Nathan Rank and Elizabeth Dahlhoff, along with their collaborators and students, explore the question of evolutionary responses to changes in climate by studying a small, native beetle that lives two miles high in the mountains of Eastern California....
Dr Corina Vlot-Schuster – The Seeds We Sow And The Grain We Reap
Much of the world’s population is dependent on just a few crops, with blight and disease an ever-present threat. Dr Corina Vlot-Schuster of the Helmholtz Centre Munich, after many years researching plant defences against pathogenic attack, aims to open the door to...
Professor Karl Forchhammer – Awakening Sleeping Bacteria
Professor Karl Forchhammer and his colleagues analyse how cyanobacteria can survive and recover from long periods of starvation. They use the model strain Synechocystis PCC 6803, a non-diazotrophic, unicellular cyanobacterium. When deprived of a nitrogen source, the...
Professor Nita Sahai – Geochemical Beginnings: How Minerals May Have Played A Key Role In The Origins Of Life
Professor Nita Sahai, of the University of Akron, studies the geochemistry underlying protocell formation and evolution, with a view to understanding the origins of life. This fascinating research is applicable to understanding both how life started on our own planet,...
Dr Gerald Gabriel Dr Thomas Burschil – What Seismic Imaging Tells Us About The Mysteries Of The Tannwald Basin
A mutual interest in geological and geophysical processes within the Quaternary epoch motivated Drs Gerald Gabriel and Thomas Burschil at the Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics (LIAG) to study overdeepened valleys and basins, using seismic imaging to gain a...
Dr Mathias Currat – Simulating genetic patterns in European human evolution
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The Small Business Administration
Small businesses are the creators of jobs and the driving force behind the US economy. Recognising this truth, the US government established the Small Business Administration (SBA) in 1953 in order to help Americans start and develop their own small businesses. As...
Dr Netta Dorchin – Tiny ecosystem engineers diversity and evolution of gall midges
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Professor Lindsay M. Schoenbohm – Discovering how mountains grow
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Dr Hitomi Nakamura – Understanding the processes of the multiple subduction plate boundary around Japan
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Dr Nicolas C. Friggens – Futuristic Farming
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Professor Ehud Meron – When physics and ecology unite
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Dr Nicholas Brokaw & Dr Sheila Ward – Cooperation reveals legacy of ancient land use
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Sofiane Zalouk & Johan Rey – Capturing the forgotten source of CO2
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Dr. Celia Chen – Mercury in Seafood: What the Madhatter didn’t know
A childhood spent between smokestacks and alongside beaches led Dr. Celia Chen to a long and distinguished career investigating marine ecosystem pollution. Tell us about yourself, what brought you into this field? I wanted to be an environmental scientist since I was...
Dr. Elke Genersch – Molecular Perspectives On Bee Pathogens
With a solid career in human molecular medicine in her back pocket, Dr. Elke Genersch decided to put her skills to the test in another organism – the honeybee. Almost 15 years ago you decided to change the focus of your research from human to bee diseases. What...