Blowing Rock Garden Club Presents: GMOs in the garden - Genetic engineering uses in horticulture and agriculture
Image credit: Arabidopsis Flower Mutants. Courtesy of Dr. Annkatrin Rose.
What are GMOs and should you be concerned about them? In this presentation, Dr. Annkatrin Rose will explain the science behind genetic modification and address some common misleading claims and misconceptions about their uses, as well as some recent developments in genome editing technology and its applications. The presentation will be supplemented with posters prepared by students from the Capstone course on Genetic Engineering at Appalachian State University.
About the Speaker
Dr. Rose At Grandfather Mountain. Courtesy of Dr. Annkatrin Rose.
Dr. Annkatrin Rose has been working with and generated GMOs in the lab, both for research purposes and as a class activity with students. She received her Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Hamburg in Germany in 1998 and spent several years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology at The Ohio State University after a short stint as a visiting research scientist at the DuPont Experimental Station in Delaware. Since 2006, she has been teaching botany, genetics, and related courses in the Department of Biology at Appalachian State University, and currently is working on a research project seeking to identify endophytes – fungi living inside plants – through culture and DNA sequencing.
In addition to an expertise in plant molecular biology, Dr. Rose has also developed a keen interest in Southern Appalachian flora and gardening with native plants. She has been serving on the Board of Directors and Advisory Board for the Daniel Boone Native Gardens since 2013, and as the President of the Blue Ridge Chapter of the North Carolina Native Plant Society since 2018. In addition, she has led educational outreach programs such as wildflower walks at the ASU Nature Preserve and Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage in the Smoky Mountains, and the “Meet the Bugs” station at Fairy Day at the Daniel Boone Native Gardens. Her own garden has become a diverse collection of native plants grown from seeds obtained mostly from seed exchanges and botanical gardens and is certified as both a butterfly garden and a monarch waystation. With her students in Plant Molecular Biology at Appalachian State University, she started a tissue culture program to propagate Venus flytraps that have been supplying plants for fundraiser sales since 2019.
In her spare time, Annkatrin likes to go out and photograph plants and wildlife for iNaturalist – you can connect with her there under the username annkatrinrose.
PLEASE NOTE: Limited seating available. An 80% refund will be issued if the participant cancels three weeks prior to the event. For cancellations made less than three weeks prior to the event, BRAHM will issue a refund IF the museum is able to fill the vacated spot.