SMART Talk with Dr. Rebecca Dickstein: Over-Fertilized? Tools for Sustainable Agriculture

UNT's College of Science hosts a SMART Talk every semester on campus at the University of North Texas to celebrate Science & Math Advancing Research & Technology. The purpose of the series is to highlight the outstanding scholarly work of COS faculty and bring the UNT community together to discuss breakthroughs and educational advancement in science and mathematics. Our Spring 2019 SMART Talk featured Dr. Rebecca Dickstein, an influential researcher, member of the BioDiscovery Institute, and UNT professor of biochemistry and molecular biology. On April 23, 2019, Dr. Dickstein shared an engaging lecture entitled, “Over-Fertilized? Tools for Sustainable Agriculture: The Legume Connection.” The talk discusses crop production and the high environmental cost of nitrogen fertilizers, and how the ongoing molecular genetics research of legume (plants in the pea and bean family) biology in Dr. Dickstein's lab could hold the key to more sustainable agriculture worldwide. ABOUT THE SPEAKER Dr. Rebecca Dickstein is a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of North Texas and a member of UNT’s BioDiscovery Institute. She earned her B.S. in Biochemistry from Penn. State University, her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from John Hopkins University and did postdoctoral work in Molecular Biology and Genetics in a joint department of Harvard University and the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Dickstein is an expert in the development of nitrogen-fixing root nodules in legumes and has published over 40 scientific papers in this area. Her laboratory conducts research on the molecular genetics of the nitrogen-fixing symbiosis in the model Medicago-truncatula – Sinorhizobium meliloti symbiosis. In her talk, Dr. Dickstein will discuss nitrogen fertilizer, how the legume symbiosis allows them to produce their own fixed nitrogen and her lab’s efforts to uncover legume secrets to how they do it.

Видео SMART Talk with Dr. Rebecca Dickstein: Over-Fertilized? Tools for Sustainable Agriculture автора Высшая Математика: Гипергеометрические Развлечения