The company will establish its Southeastern division in Athens, with a lease arrangement with the university. The expansion will facilitate collaboration between GeneMachines and UGA researchers involved in the GRA-supported Applied Genetic Technologies initiative. The North wins again, but this time it's a contest for the most edible salt-marsh plants Salt marshes are among the most biologically interesting places on earth. The waters and soil teem with plants and animals bound up in the cycles of life and death. For plant-eating animals known as herbivores, salt marshes are a garden of delights, a salad bar with savory selections.
Herbivores can, however, be picky eaters, depending on how palatable salt-marsh plants are.
New research by UGA's Marine Institute on Sapelo Island, in collaboration with Brown University in Providence, R.I., strongly suggests that salt-marsh plants nearer the equator are less palatable to herbivores than ones considerably farther away. U.S. Congressman Chambliss to receive UGA Blue Key Award U.S. Rep. Saxby Chambliss of Moultrie will be honored by the UGA chapter of Blue Key national honor society Oct. 1. Shanghai connection Last week, a group of officials from Shanghai arrived at the University of Georgia on the first leg of a journey that will take them to Savannah, Atlanta and Washington, D.C., to learn how local government functions in a democracy. The trip is the second phase of a two-part education program set up by UGA's International Center for Democratic Governance, part of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government. News service director Sharron Hannon talked with Steve Wrigley, director of the center, who is overseeing this new international outreach program.