[Ocees] PBIO Colloquium | Friday, February 14

[Snell, Rebecca]

Some more information about this weeks PBIO Speaker:

This week's Colloquium speaker is Dr. Rishi Masalia, Director of Bioinformatics at LeafWorks in Sebastopol, CA.

Dr. Masalia's presentation is scheduled for Friday, February 14 at 11:50 am in Porter Hall 104.

Title: Return of the OG: Cannabis, the original cash crop makes a comeback

Cannabis fever is taking over the United States. Used medicinally, recreationally and functionally (i.e., fiber, construction, etc.) for millennia, Cannabis has a global distribution and deep ties to human culture. In recent history, the Cannabis industry in the US has been heavily influenced by its Schedule I classification. Despite this prohibition, Cannabis cultivation still persists underground and in isolation. With public opinion quickly changing, more states are legalizing Cannabis, enabling the scientific community to investigate this plant, allowing us to pose basic biological questions about genetic diversity and ancestry. To explore the current breadth of genetic diversity in Cannabis and how that relates to naming conventions, we present analyses of genome-wide SNP data from a large collection of Cannabis accessions. In this talk, I will explore our recent work indicating discrepancies in Cannabis labeling and genetic clustering based on classic Cannabis ideotypes (i.e., Indica and Sativa). As prohibition of Cannabis wanes, understanding genetic diversity and its relationship with cultivar identification is imperative for advancing the Cannabis industry across all uses.

He will also be hosting an open question and answer session, about start-ups, from 2:00 - 3:00 in the CoLab later that same day (see second attachment).
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