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Iowa Seed & Biosafety is published electronically and made available in printed format by the Seed Science Center and the Biosafety Institute for Genetically Modified Agricultural Products (BIGMAP) at Iowa State University.

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Twice Sown

by artist Thomas Stancliffe

Videos

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences video "History in the Making" highlights the Seed Science Center and other research programs within the college at Iowa State. View the video.

Plant Sciences Institute Seed Research Center Video Spotlight: Features Manjit Misra speaking about the Seed Science Center. View the video.

In the News—

ISU symposium to address food and fuel crops at Iowa State April 21-22

ISU News Service (4-09-09)

ISU symposium to address food and fuel crops at Iowa State April 21-22

Corn & Soybean Digest (4-09-09)

Food and fuel crops topic of symposium in Ames

Des Moines Register (4-12-09)

G.W. Carver Statue Graces ISU Campus (11-26-08) Iowa Farmer Today

New George Washington Carver Sculpture Unveiled (11-19-08) Ames Tribune

George Washington Carver Sculpture to be Unveiled at ISU's Seed Science Center (11-18-08) SeedQuest

George Washington Carver Sculpture to be Unveiled at ISU's Seed Science Center (11-11-08) ISU

ISU Opens Expanded Seed Center

(10-17-08) Farm News, IA

ISU Seed Science Center's New Addition Opens (10/15/08) Ames Trubune

Ceremony Dedicates Largest Public Seed Lab in World (ISU Daily 10-14-08)

Doug Cooper WOI Interview with Namanga Ngongi (MP3, 10-08 WOI Radio)

Expanded Seed Science Center to open at Iowa State University
(10-08-08) ISU

Ceremony Dedicates Largest Public Seed Lab in World (ISU Daily 10-14-08)

Misra named Dean's Chair for Distinction in Agriculture and Life Sciences (07-14-08)

BIGMAP, CAB International Sign Agreement to Develop Compendium

Press Releases—

Twelve alumni and friends, one corporation to be honored at ISU's annual Distinguished Awards Celebration April 11 (Manjit Misra receives Order of the Knoll Award)— (04-08-08)

BIGMAP hosts 2007 international Expert Consultation

Symposium will address biotechnology and law at Iowa State April 23, 2008

(03-26-08)

BIGMAP featured in 150 Points of Pride—(01-15-08)

Vilsack named distinguished
fellow in Iowa State's Biosafety
Institute—(9-17-07)

Symposium will address
risks, benefits and regulations
of ag biotech at ISU—

(04-02-07)

Ag biotech communications,
policy and regulations focus of ISU symposium (04-05-06)

Leading experts to discuss biotech policies and safeguards at ISU symposium (04-01-05)

ISU symposium will tackle
biopharming issues—

(04-07-04)

New Institute to Evaluate Genetically Modified Organisms—(10-10-03)

Other Publications

BIGMAP Brochure

What is Risk Communication? by Lulu Rodriquez

Genetically engineered plants for the bioeconomy: Will they make it into the fields? by Saharah Moon Chapotin