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<span style="color:black;background:yellow">The ZOOM Registration Link is <a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tJBuns67STO5mNY0R4Axlw" target="_blank">HERE</a></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#003DA5">1st Webinar - Growing Silk for Agrofood Resilience - Friday, October 8, 2021, 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#00287A"> </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#00287A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#00287A">Guest Speaker:</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#234674"> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#00287A"><a href="https://cee.mit.edu/people_individual/benedetto-marelli/" title="Benedetto Marrelli"><span style="color:#003DA5">Benedetto
Marelli</span></a></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#00287A;font-weight:normal">, Paul M. Cook Career Development Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#00287A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#00287A">In this seminar, we discuss the engineering of natural polymers in advanced materials that can be interfaced with food and plants. With a focus on silk, we will present newly developed techniques
to direct the assembly of structural proteins in nanostructured materials that can serve as: edible coatings to prolong the shelf-life of perishable food, microenvironments to boost seed germination under abiotic stressors, and microneedles to deliver active
payloads in plants and sense food spoilage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#00287A">This webinar event is co-hosted with <strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">UCR Plants3D NRT and Center for Plant Cell Biology</span></strong>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#00287A">Department Seminar Organizer:</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#00287A"> <strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Dr. Julia Bailey-Serres</span></strong>,
Distinguished Professor and Geneticist, Botany and Plant Sciences; Director of Center for Plant Cell Biology and Plants 3D NRT program, UCR.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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