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Chelsey VanDrisse, a student in Jeff Gralnick’s lab, served as timekeeper for the CBS portion of the St. Paul campus crawl, ensuring that researchers limited their presentations to three minutes. She used the biological clock of the striped gopher (13-line ground squirrel) as a visual aid.

Nathan Springer (Plant Biology) presented a poster on epigenetics – how parents’ experiences, as well as their genes, can impact heredity. He is currently exploring the role of epigenetic variation in creating different shapes and sizes of maize plants.

Dan Voytas (Genetics, Cell Biology and Development) discusses his lab's efforts to develop methods to specifically alter the genetic code of living cells to correct mutations that cause disease, thereby providing a novel form of gene therapy.

Clarence Lehman (Ecology, Evolution and Behavior) explains Regents Professor David Tilman’s research on how biodiversity strengthens ecosystems and how prairie grasses could be used to make biofuel with less environmental impact than current fuel crops.

Kenny Beckman, director of the Biomedical Genomics Center, gives President Kaler an animated tour of the high throughput sequencing facility. The facility can accomplish in three days for $5,000 what it took the Human Genome Project 10 years and $3 billion to do.