<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_m8g2ghai1" alt="IIGB logo.jpg" style="margin-right:0px"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(7,55,99);font-size:20pt;font-weight:700">You are cordially </span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(7,55,99);font-size:20pt;font-weight:700">invited</span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(7,55,99);font-size:20pt;font-weight:700"> to attend</span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black;font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:xx-large;text-align:left">Jason White</span></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="text-align:start">Director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES)</span><span style="color:black;text-align:left"></span></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><a href="https://portal.ct.gov/caes/about-caes/staff-biographies/jason-c-white" target="_blank"><font face="georgia, serif">https://portal.ct.gov/caes/about-caes/staff-biographies/jason-c-white</font></a><span style="text-align:start"></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_m8g2c5zx0" alt="J White Photo.jpg" width="362" height="406" style="margin-right:0px"></div></div><div style="text-align:center"><b style="color:black;font-size:large;font-family:georgia,serif;text-align:left"><br></b></div><div style="text-align:center"><b style="color:black;font-size:large;font-family:georgia,serif;text-align:left">Date:</b><span style="color:black;font-size:large;font-family:georgia,serif;text-align:left"> Friday, April 4</span></div><div><font color="#073763"><p style="text-align:center;font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);direction:ltr;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0.5pt;margin-right:48.8pt;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="color:black"><font size="4"><b>                 Time:</b> 12pm - 1:00 pm</font></span></p><p style="text-align:center;font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);direction:ltr;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0.5pt;margin-right:48.8pt;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="color:black"><font size="4"><b>              Location: </b>Genomics Auditorium 1102</font></span></p><p style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0.5pt;margin-right:48.8pt;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></p><div style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><b>Nano-enabled Agriculture: A Path to Global Food Security in a Changing Climate</b></font></div><div style="font-size:large;font-family:georgia,serif;text-align:center"><b><br></b></div><p style="font-family:georgia,serif;text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34);direction:ltr;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0px;margin-right:48.8pt;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="color:black"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Abstract:</font></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Low use and delivery efficiency of conventional agrichemicals is a significant impediment to maintaining global food security, particularly given that a 60-70% increase in food production is needed by 2050 to support the projected population. Further confounding these efforts is a changing climate, which will force increased cultivation of crops under more marginal and stress-inducing conditions. We are using nanotechnology as a novel and sustainable strategy to increase the delivery efficiency and efficacy of nutrients and pesticides, as well as to promote increased resilience to biotic and abiotic stresses. Driving this effort is a focus on harnessing our ability effectively tune nanoscale material structure and composition to maximize benefit, increase food security and reduce the impact of agriculture on the environment.</font></p></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font></p></div></div></div>