{"id":31192,"date":"2020-08-31T15:19:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T19:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=31192"},"modified":"2020-09-01T09:38:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T13:38:39","slug":"fsc-shares-research-grant-with-rutgers-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2020\/08\/31\/fsc-shares-research-grant-with-rutgers-university\/","title":{"rendered":"FSC Shares Research Grant with Rutgers University"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"x_id-7cae2ffe-924d-4c6b-a876-5f239b03e3d3\" class=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message\">\n<div lang=\"EN-US\">\n<div class=\"x_x_WordSection1\">\n<div>\n<p>Dr. Kerry Lutz, associate professor of Biology, is co-recipient of a two-year, $300,000 EAGER grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). EAGER grants are awarded to innovative, but high-risk projects, and are for two years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The grant, &#8220;EAGER: Re-engineering Agrobacterium for T-DNA Delivery to Chloroplasts,&#8221; began this month. Farmingdale received more than $20,000 of the grant, which will go to support two undergraduate research interns who will perform high-impact research with Dr. Lutz during the fall and spring semesters. Next summer they will spend 10 weeks at Rutgers Univeristy, FSC&#8217;s partner in the grant. It is the second grant the two institutions have shared.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Says Dr. Lutz: &#8220;Chloroplast transformation allows scientists to modify the DNA within the chloroplasts of plants to aid in studying important plant processes, such as photosynthesis. It is a labor intensive process that is not routine in the model plant, Arabidopsis thaliana.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The goal of the project is to develop an efficient, simplistic approach for Arabidopsis chloroplast transformation. This will be accomplished by re-engineering Agrobacterium &#8211; commonly used to transform the nuclear genome of plants &#8211; for transformation of the chloroplast genome. If we are successful, this will allow for widespread use of chloroplast transformation in Arabidopsis, which will have a major impact on basic science and applications in biotechnology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Kerry Lutz, associate professor of Biology, is co-recipient of a two-year, $300,000 EAGER grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). EAGER grants are awarded to innovative, but high-risk projects, and are for two years. The grant, &#8220;EAGER: Re-engineering Agrobacterium for T-DNA Delivery to Chloroplasts,&#8221; began this month. Farmingdale received more than $20,000 of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":31006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31192"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31328,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31192\/revisions\/31328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}