{"id":75,"date":"2014-05-02T15:04:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T15:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plantpathology.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/?p=75"},"modified":"2014-05-03T15:13:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T15:13:42","slug":"plant-pathology-graduate-students-visit-high-school-biology-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantpathology.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Plant Pathology Graduate Students Visit High School Biology Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000\">Graduate students in the Department of Plant Pathology have an active outreach group.\u00a0 In addition to participating in large outreach events like Bugfest and Triangle SciTech Expo at the Museum of Natural Sciences, they also visit local high schools to spread the word about how plant pathologists use biotechnology to manage plant pests.\u00a0 On April 4, 2014 they visited three of Mrs. Eckenrod\u2019s sophomore biology classes at Princeton High School in Eastern North Carolina. Students performed DNA extractions from strawberry tissue, looked at fungal spores under a microscope, learned the basics of fungal isolation and culture maintenance, and learned how to transform geranium plants with agrobacterium.\u00a0 This outreach program aims to teach and inform the general public about plant pathology and current issues in world food production.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/plantpath.cals.ncsu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/PP%20Student%20Outreach%204-2014a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma Wallace with Princeton HS biology students<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/plantpath.cals.ncsu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/PP%20Student%20Outreach%204-2014b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma Lookabaugh discussing the importance of GMO technology in relation to plant pathology<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"color: #000000\">\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/plantpath.cals.ncsu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/PP%20Student%20Outreach%204-2014c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alyssa Koehler showing students samples of diseased plants<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"color: #000000\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate students in the Department of Plant Pathology have an active outreach group.\u00a0 In addition to participating in large outreach events like Bugfest and Triangle SciTech Expo at the Museum of Natural Sciences, they also visit local high schools to spread the word about how plant pathologists use biotechnology to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,8],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-news","tag-outreach","tag-ppgsa","post_format-post-format-image","column","twocol"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4A40w-1d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plantpathology.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plantpathology.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plantpathology.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plantpathology.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plantpathology.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/plantpathology.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/plantpathology.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plantpathology.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plantpathology.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plantpathology.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}