Wayne Curtis, professsor of chemical engineering and principle investigator of the CurtisLab, shows a student and her mother naturally “hairy” roots of tomatillo plants under a microscope 4th biennial USA Science and Engineering Festival.
CurtisLab exhibits at USA Science and Engineering Festival
7/27/2016
Members of CurtisLab showcased bioreactor design and plant biology at the Society of In Vitro Biology exposition booth during the 4th biennial USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C., on April 16, 2016.
The event, which exists to celebrate STEM education and inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers, enjoyed a record crowd of over 365,000 guests from all over the United States.
Fellow exhibitors at the festival included federal agencies, industrial partners, and academic organizations ranging from the Penn State Eberly College of Science, NASA, SeaWorld, MedImmune, the Department of Defense, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Lockheed Martin, Department of Energy, American Chemical Society, American Society for Microbiology and Plant Powered Production (P3), and many others.
For additional photos and highlights from the festival, view the CurtisLab’s festival video on the lab’s YouTube channel.
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Tina Lai, a graduate student in plant biology, shows off her CurtisLab tie dye lab coat while explaining in vitro plant tissue culture to a group of students
