Biotech treks

This past summer Dr. Guochen Yang of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Design was called on to give biotechnology seminars in some strikingly dissimilar settings. In June, Yang went home to China to present a seminar on biotechnology developments and impacts across North Carolina at Jilin Agricultural University in Jilin Province of the People’s Republic of China. (Jilin is located in the northeastern corner of the country, bordering both Russia and Korea.) Yang’s presentation came at the request of the president of the Jilin Agricultural University, and his trip to China also included a visit with scientists at the Chinese Academy for Agricultural Sciences in Beijing. 

 

In July, Yang, conducted plant tissue culture workshops at two North Carolina community colleges — Richmond Community College in Hamlet and Carteret Community College in Morehead City — as part of a biotech summer enrichment program coordinated by UNC-Pembroke.  The workshops at the community colleges included hands-on work with the laboratory and greenhouse procedures and equipment used to propagate plants using micropropagation.

Posted September 14, 2005 10:59 AM

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