Sue Ellen Pegg, a specialist in management of transgenic plant greenhouses, will care for the plants housed in the addition. According to the director of the Plant Transformation Facility, Dr. Kan Wang, the greenhouse should prove valuable for university plant research. Visitors can look forward to an open house when the addition is fully operational. The expected completion date is January 1999. A series of workshops in molecular biology techniques will be offered during spring semester 1999 on the ISU campus.
Fifteen workshops are available, to be presented in three sections of five workshops each.
The workshops will be taught by staff from ISU's biotechnology instrumentation facilities. Students taking the sections for credit will be given preference. However, if there are openings available, students, faculty, staff, and other persons who are not interested in earning credits may sign up for one or more of the individual workshops beginning January 5, 1999. No classroom or practical experience with the techniques to be discussed is required. An additional plant transformation section also will be offered during spring semester 1999.