BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20190501T220000Z DTEND:20190501T230000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Spring into Science - Tapping into Plants' Natural Chemical Arsenals Without Taxing Nature DESCRIPTION:Part Three of Whitehead Institute's Spring into Science Series\n\nJing-Ke Weng\, a Member of Whitehead Institute and an assistant professor of biology at MIT\, will discuss how discoveries in natural product chemistry and biochemistry\, particularly from plants\, have impacted our society in big ways. The rapid advances in emerging fields such as genomics and synthetic biology have now enabled us to explore and exploit the remarkable diversity of plant chemistry in an entirely new way. Small molecules are low molecular-weight organic compounds omnipresent in all living organisms. Humans have a long history of using these compounds from nature to fulfill a wide range of purposes including forming the basis for traditional global medicine. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Part Three of Whitehead Institute'\;s Spring into Science Series

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Jing-Ke Weng\, a Member of Whitehead Institute and an assistant professor of biology at MIT\, will discuss how discoveries in natural product chemistry and biochemistry\, particularly from plants\, have impacted our society in big ways. The rapid advances in emerging fields such as genomics and synthetic biology have now enabled us to explore and exploit the remarkable diversity of plant chemistry in an entirely new way. \;Small molecules are low molecular-weight organic compounds omnipresent in all living organisms. Humans have a long history of using these compounds from nature to fulfill a wide range of purposes including forming the basis for traditional global medicine.

\n LOCATION:Whitehead Institute 455 Main Street Cambridge\, MA 02142 UID:e.2584.4476 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260424T214652Z URL:https://business.cambridgechamber.org/events/details/spring-into-science-tapping-into-plants-natural-chemical-arsenals-without-taxing-nature-4476 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR