{"id":13,"date":"2009-10-17T15:46:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T19:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/societyofscientists\/?p=13"},"modified":"2009-10-17T15:54:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T19:54:35","slug":"wed-oct-28-2009-feeding-the-future-agricultural-genetics-and-world-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/societyofscientists\/2009\/10\/17\/wed-oct-28-2009-feeding-the-future-agricultural-genetics-and-world-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"Wed Oct 28, 2009: Feeding the Future: Agricultural Genetics and World Hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feeding the Future: Agricultural Genetics and World Hunger<br \/>\nWednesday \u00a028 October, 7pm<br \/>\nArmenise Ampitheatre at Harvard Medical School, Longwood<\/p>\n<p>Friend of the society, Naveen Sinha, will be speaking about genetics<br \/>\nin agriculture as part of the Science in the News outreach program.<br \/>\nNaveen is a 2nd year graduate student in Applied Physics at Harvard.<br \/>\nOver the years, Naveen has conducted research on a variety of<\/p>\n<p>biophysical topics including building instruments to trap single<br \/>\nmolecules, analyzing the microscopic properties of chocolate and more<br \/>\nrecently observing the mechanical properties of biofilms. Naveen is an<br \/>\nimmaculate speaker and I expect this will be a superb talk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sitn.hms.harvard.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/sitn.hms.harvard.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>The Harvard Society of Scientists is an e-newsletter that lists<br \/>\nupcoming events and resources for scientists \u00a0interested in issues of<br \/>\npolicy and global affairs. The newsletter is maintained by Jason<br \/>\nOtterstrom \u00a0(<a href=\"mailto:otterst@fas.harvard.edu\">otterst@fas.harvard.edu<\/a>) and Andy Leifer<br \/>\n(<a href=\"mailto:leifer@fas.harvard.edu\">leifer@fas.harvard.edu<\/a>). All are welcome to join at<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/socsci\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/socsci<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google Calender:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/embed?src=harvardsocietyofscientists%40gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/embed?src=harvardsocietyofscientists%40gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeding the Future: Agricultural Genetics and World Hunger Wednesday \u00a028 October, 7pm Armenise Ampitheatre at Harvard Medical School, Longwood Friend of the society, Naveen Sinha, will be speaking about genetics in agriculture as part of the Science in the News outreach program. Naveen is a 2nd year graduate student in Applied Physics at Harvard. Over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13599],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-25-31-october-2009"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/societyofscientists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/societyofscientists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/societyofscientists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/societyofscientists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/societyofscientists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/societyofscientists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/societyofscientists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/societyofscientists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/societyofscientists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/societyofscientists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}