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Grapevine Red Blotch Virus

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Research Presentation submitted by Alex Clarke as part of the ASPB Conviron Scholars Program

Plants are thirsty, too!

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ASPB Conviron Scholars: Final Project, by Tim Burnette Water is a central piece to humanity’s past, present, and future life. It is essential to our survival, and we are not alone in this necessity: plants need water too. With limited water, plants cannot grow and develop, and may not even survive.…

Plant Science Outreach Demonstrations

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For my Conviron Scholars independent project Bryony Yates created a guide that details the instructions for two interactive plant science demonstrations that can be delivered as part of a science outreach event. They could be presented as part of a public event or taken into schools and require…

An introduction to Python for data visualization

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Independent Project Created by Samantha Connolly as part of the ASPB Conviron Scholars Program Python is an incredibly useful programming language, especially for data visualization. Here, I will (1) show you how to download an Integrated Development Environment, (2) show you the basics of loops,…

Spreading Plant Science through Twitter

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Post by Angel Vergara Cruces For my ASPB Conviron Scholars independent project, I wanted to use Twitter to spread plant sciences. I was hoping the way Twitter works could allow me to reach a wider audience. I especially wanted to introduce plant sciences to undergraduate students in the life sciences,…

Food for Flowers

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ASPB Conviron Scholars Independent Project by Mallory Cullen For my independent project, I wanted to make a plant science lesson for young elementary school children. I made a video that provides a basic overview of photosynthesis as well as two experiments that can be conducted to illustrate photosynthesis.…

The War on Viruses: Insights from the Front Lines

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Alex Clarke Conviron Scholars 2019 Final Project  I was interested in the opinions of professors and researchers on the current state of the field of plant virology, including the future directions it may take and the most important technologies in the field. I also wished to learn what system they…

Chaperone-assisted membrane protein trafficking in the chloroplast

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As part of the 2018-2019 Conviron Scholars program, Laura Klasek recorded a short oral presentation on her current research project.  

Hope Is Not a Strategy - Designing an IDP for a graduate program

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Written by Laura Klasek as part of the ASPB Conviron Scholars Program "This is my favorite part of the research,” said the graduate student supervising my first rotation, “Because right now, anything is possible: the experiment worked, didn’t work, did something unexpected…”  We stood in…