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Please join BTI for a reception to celebrate the latest Art@BTI exhibit, Juxtaposition of Light and Texture! This collection of photography by Nancy V. Ridenour will be on-display through Summer 2018.

Graduate students from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology will be visiting as part of an annual problem solving workshop in collaboration with Cornell grad students and postdocs. The broad theme of this year's workshop is science communication. Four teams will compete to create the most exciting and engaging presentation about agricultural and technological innovations. […]

Yin and Yang refer to dualities in Chinese philosophy: they describe how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent on each other. They mean the paradox of simultaneous unity and duality that should be balanced to keep the thing on the right track. While studying RNA silencing for years, we […]

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Tune In Here! Unrestricted Futures 2018 Our planet is rapidly approaching nine billion people and with that rise in population comes serious threats to our food supply and health. At BTI, our researchers work tirelessly to combat these threats by diving into the deep unknown of the life sciences in search of the discoveries that […]

Ivan Liachko, Ph.D., Founder/Chief Scientist, Phase Genomics, Inc, presents From Contigs to Chromosomes: How Hi-C is transforming genome and metagenome assembly. Chromosome conformation capture methods like Hi-C measure the 3D organization of DNA in vivo using a combination of crosslinking, proximity-ligation, and paired-end sequencing. Because this method captures genomic contiguity on intact chromosomes, the resultant information can be […]

Following the Board of Directors meetings each spring and fall, the State of the Institute is a presentation delivered to all of BTI by President David Stern and his designees. Refreshments will be served in the Atrium following the presentation.

As small technology transfer offices demonstrate successes, their functions and responsibilities may expand and evolve requiring increased resources. Join Paul Debbie, Director of Research at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI), as he discusses his experiences in leading and growing BTI’s technology transfer office in our upcoming webinar, Evolving a Small Tech Transfer Office: Growing Up […]

Dr. Fay-Wei Li and Cinemapolis for Science On Screen: Little Shop of Horrors. Fay-Wei will discuss some of Earth’s most dangerous plants, covering toxicity and even predatory behavior. Little Shop of Horrors to follow. Learn more and buy tickets: https://cinemapolis.org/film/sos-little-shop-of-horrors/.

Special Seminar  Michael Werner Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen "The epigenetic hills, valleys, and consequences of phenotypic plasticity." Early life experiences can affect the development of physiology, behavior, and even morphological structures later in life. While post-translational modifications and non-coding RNAs are capable of transmitting environmental information, a holistic understanding of environmental influence […]

Georg Jander “Chemical defense tradeoffs in maize-insect interactions” 11-12pm in the BTI Auditorium

Margaret Frank "Connecting the pieces: new technologies to understand the ancient practice of plant grafting" 11-12pm in the BTI Auditorium

Scott McArt “Pesticides and pathogens and pollinator declines: What do we know?” 11-12pm in the BTI Auditorium

Art at BTI presents: Color Is A Beautiful Thing: Intersections of Plants and Popular Culture by Sarah Gotowka Space is limited, please register here. Join us for a night of art and science. View the art of Sarah Gotowka, local fiber artist, engage with her at a reception and hear a presentation by Sarah and […]

Summer Seminar Series: Adam Bogdanove "Transcriptional activation of plant susceptibility genes by the pathogen Xanthomonas - and what to do about it” 11-12pm in the BTI Auditorium

Summer Seminar Series: Anurag Agrawal “Of monarchs and milkweed” 11-12pm in the BTI Auditorium

Summer Seminar Series Fay Wei-Li 11-12pm in the BTI Auditorium

Summer Seminar Series: Jennifer Thaler “The Ecology of fear in Tritrophic Interactions” 11-12pm in the BTI Auditorium

It has been an exciting summer filled with research for BTI’s 2019 summer interns! Want to learn all about the research the students have contributed to over the past 10 weeks? Tune in to our livestream on Thursday, August 8th, starting at 9 am and running throughout the day, to hear directly from the students […]

The BCBC is excited to host its Nanopore symposium on October 28 & 29, 2019! The Nanopore Symposium will showcase using Oxford Nanopore technology in your research. Click here for more information and a full line-up of speakers. Space is limited, so please register here if you plan to attend.