Increasing food security and connection| UGA Research News
It’s a Thursday morning in the Perry (Ga.) Events Center, a high-ceilinged, white-walled open room that used to serve as an armory. It’s filled with just shy of 150 attendees of the 2nd Integrative Precision Agriculture Conference hosted by the University of Georgia’s Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture(IIPA). When the first conference was held two| UGA Research News
University of Georgia startup CytoNest Inc. released its first commercial product, a fiber scaffold that optimizes cell manufacturing and tissue engineering, last month. The product, called CytoSurge 3D fiber scaffold, has applications in cell research, biopharmaceuticals, cell therapeutics, and cultured meat and seafood development. UGA is ranked No. 1 among U.S. universities for number of| UGA Research News
Natalie Cohen, assistant professor of marine sciences in the University of Georgia’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a 2024 Simons Early Career Investigator. The three-year grant provides $810,000 to fund her work tracking shifts in phytoplankton physiology along continental shelf ecosystems. A researcher in biological oceanography, Cohen is interested in how| UGA Research News
The Center for Bioenergy Innovation (CBI), a multi-institutional initiative based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and co-led by University of Georgia researchers, has been renewed by the U.S. Department of Energy as one of four bioenergy research centers across the nation that advance robust, economical production of plant-based fuels and chemicals. According to its announcement,| UGA Research News
As the world grapples with how to reduce its carbon footprint, it’s clear there’s no silver bullet solution for climate change. It will take a multifaceted approach to scale back fossil fuel usage and find more sustainable alternatives.| UGA Research News