5-18_Weathers

Dr. Pamela J. Weathers, Plant Metabolic Engineering, was invited to make a presentation at the international TERPNET 2007 meeting held April 30-May 4, 2007 in Strasbourg, France.
Date Released: 2007-05-18


Dr. Weathers presented her work on the antimalarial drug, artemisinin. Her talk was entitled "Artemisinin: controlling its production in Artemisia annua". Dr. Weathers is the Director of the Molecular Biosciences Ph.D program and Judd Hill Chair of Agricultural Biotechnology. She holds a joint appointment with the Arkansas Biosciences Institute and the College of Agriculture.