Dr. Brit Moss, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology and Program in Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology, Whitman College, presents “How can yeast help us understand the development of corn ears?”
Wednesday, March 24, at 12:10 p.m. via Zoom.
Please contact kelly.hewitt@wsu.edu to request the Zoom URL.
Brit Moss (she/her) is an Assistant Professor at Whitman College where she teaches courses ranging from Biochemistry to Genetic Engineering to Synthetic Biology. Her research seeks to answer questions about where tuning knobs exist in plant hormone signaling pathways, how evolution has explored the range of set points on these knobs, and whether these tuning knobs can be engineered to drive novel functionality in plants. Further information on Dr. Moss can be found on her lab’s website: https://mosslabwhitmancollege.com/
This semester’s seminar schedule and past recordings can be found here: https://mps.wsu.edu/seminar-series-2/