Natasha Raikhel was chosen as subject of ASPB News “Luminaries” column, where student and postdoc members are invited to submit their ideas for a 500- to 750-word interview they might like to conduct with a prominent scientist. Natasha Raikhel Distinguished Professor of Plant Cell Biology Emerita, University of California, Riverside BY PRATEEK TRIPATHI ASPB Student...

View the youtube Stream of CEPCEB Assistant Professor Carolyn Rasmussen’s lecture “Feeding the World: From Mendel to CRISPR”, where she discusses the gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 and its wide range of potential applications and challenges. Presented through the UC Riverside Lecture Series “Gene Editing: Are We Playing God?”

Sean Cutler becomes the 6th CEPCEB and the 7th IIGB member elected to the prestigious Academy. Sarah Nightingale writes "Cutler is being recognized for pioneering the use of chemistry and genetics to define genes and manipulate the resiliency of plants to drought. His fundamental work led to the identification of receptors for the plant hormone...

Congratulations to Martin Luther King Jr. High School graduating senior, Yushan (Susan) Su, for bringing home the Third Life Science Award from Sigma Xi at the Intel ISEF in Pennsylvania. Susan won for her project, “High-Resolution Genetic Profiling of Rice Pinpoints Critical Sugar Transport Genes for Engineering of Flood Resistant Crops”. Susan has had a...