Dr. Fabricio Medina-Bolívar presents invited research talk
Dr. Fabricio Medina-Bolívar, Plant Metabolic Engineering/ABI, recently presented a research talk at the 238th A merican Chemical Society National Meeting held in Washington D.C. His invited talk, "Production and Bioactivity of Natural Resveratrol Analogues from Hairy Root Cultures," was part of the session "Bioactives: New Production Technologies," sponsored by the Division of Agricultural and Food Chemistry of the American Chemical Society. Dr. Medina-Bolivar's talk covered research in his laboratory at ABI conducted by two of his PhD students in Molecular Biosciences, Jose Condori and Cesar Nopo-Olazabal, as well as collaborative work with ASU researchers Dr. Malathi Srivatsan, Molecular Biology, Dr. Maureen Dolan, Biochemistry/Molecular Biology/ABI, Dr. Ganapathy Sivakumar, Bioengineering/ABI, and Dr. John Hubstenberger, Plant Micropropagation/ABI, and Dr. Julie Carrier, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville. This ongoing research is funded by the National Science Foundation-EPSCoR P3 Center for Plant-Powered Production and the Arkansas Biosciences Institute.