Monday, 07 Mar 2011
Fighting Hunger: A DNA Engineer's Path to Science and Success
"Fighting Hunger: A DNA Engineer's Path to Science and Success," Charles Stewart Jr., research associate at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Stewart works to understand how plant enzymes make an array of chemicals important to medicine and agriculture. Using the 3D protein structure, he studies the evolution of protein function and how proteins can be engineered to improve the quality and quantity of the world's food supply.
Wednesday, 09 Mar 2011
From Idea to Novel: A Writer and Activist at Work
Author and environmentalist Rick Bass is the author of more than 20 books, including the autobiographical Why I Came West and the short story collection The Lives of Rocks. His latest novel, Nashville Chrome, draws on the rise and fall of the Brown trio, the true-life country music trailblazers who pioneered the 1950s sound from which the novel takes its title.