Plant Biology: or Botany, also called plant science(s) or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plantscientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field.
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In the era of advanced biotechnology, automation plays a crucial role in accelerating cancer research. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology has revolutionized cancer research, but lab...
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NEED ABSTRACT Learning Objectives Understand how the challenges of amplification from low input DNA, including single cells, can be overcome Discover why more researchers are using a next ge...
Date: March 08, 2023 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST), 6:00pm (CET) An unbiased characterization of the human microbiome is crucial to a more complete understanding of microbial effect on h...
Date: September 27, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00pm (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Temperature sensitive (TS) alleles are mutations in essential genes that allow for growth at permissive temperatures...
Date: August 30, 2022 Time: 10:00am (CEST), 1:00am (PDT), 4:00am (EDT) Problem When it’s time for researchers to pick a protein or formulation, the best ones need to sweat it out at el...
Date: July 26, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) Organoids and spheroids are increasingly being used in many research applications, including drug discovery, toxicology,...
Date: July 19, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Cryo-EM is rapidly becoming the method of choice for structural biologists and biochemists around the world, helping thes...
Date: June 30, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PST), 10:00am (EST), 4:00pm (CEST) Flow Cytometry is a widely used technology that enables researchers to rapidly characterize thousands of individual cells...
Date: June 07, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the potential role that wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) can play in assessing a...
Date: May 11, 2022 Time: 12:00pm (PDT), 3:00pm (EDT), 9:00pm (CEST) In this presentation, Dr. Courtney Miller and Daniel Rodrigues Oliveira, M.S. will describe the efforts of the California...
Date: March 31, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) The US horticulture industry suffers approximately $60 billion in losses each year as a result of...
There is much discussion by cannabis growers about the prevention of plant diseases, oftentimes circling back to the idea of curating a sterile cultivation system. However, keeping microbial...
Date: October 14, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) The primary role of B cells is to secrete antibodies, boosting our adaptive immune responses, making them an essential part of our im...
RNA plays important and diverse roles in biology, but molecular tools to manipulate and measure RNA are limited. We demonstrate that RNA-targeting CRISPR effector Cas13 and novel RNA targeti...
Date: September 14, 2021 Time: 7am PDT, 10am EDT, 4pm CEST A conventional thermal cycler has long been a commodity product in the lab and end-point PCR techniques can be completed almost wit...
Date: June 16, 2021 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT) Large-scale wastewater surveillance can be used to help communities monitor infection dynamics for SARS-CoV-2. Wide-spread implementatio...
Date: May 19, 2021 Time: 8:00am PDT Cellular cryo-electron tomography is a high-resolution technique that enables imaging of the molecular machinery of a cell at close-to-native conditions....
Date: May 11, 2021 Time: 10:00zm PDT Your samples are some of the most valuable assets in the laboratory. After spending countless hours on extraction and preparation, your conclusions could...
DATE: April 28, 2021 TIME: 08am PST Shakers and bioreactors are established versatile systems for cultivating microorganism, plant, and animal cells in suspension. Both methods aim at increa...
As part of Healthy Davis Together, we have implemented rapid, inexpensive, high throughput testing for SARS-Cov-2 using technology repurposed from the agricultural biotechnology sector. This...
At UC Davis we have implemented rapid, inexpensive, high throughput testing for SARS-Cov-2 using technology repurposed from the agricultural biotechnology sector. As part of Healthy Davis To...
The utilization of high fidelity long read sequencing is critical for the resolution of repetitive genomes. Cannabis sativa is known to be diploid (2n=20), 70% repetitive, 64% AT rich and 1%...