Dr. Cramer attends, presents at Salk Institute

Date Released: 12-8-2008

Dr. Carole L. Cramer, executive director, ABI, attended the Salk Institute Plant Biology Laboratory 25th Anniversary Symposium, and gave a talk on “Pushing PBIO to the Interface of Agriculture and Medicine.” She included a discussion of the goals, facilities and research clusters within ASU's Arkansas Biosciences Institute (ABI). Cramer also highlighted results from her research groups’ experiments in using plant lectins as potential carriers of medical and veterinarian proteins. The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is located in La Jolla, Ca., and its major areas of study include Molecular Biology and Genetics; Neurosciences; and Plant Biology.