The Innovator is a free electronic newsletter that contains brief stories about new equipment, services, and courses at the ISU instrumentation facilities for biotechnology research. Follow the education or research resources links on the homepage to the publications link where you will find The Innovator . The new greenhouse, which will adjoin the existing Agronomy Greenhouse, will house transgenic corn and soybeans for basic biological study and applied research. 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.