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The BTI Post Graduate Society is pleased to announce the launch of our first website

The PGS website provides important information for the post graduate community, such as upcoming events and descriptions of the society and our activities. In addition, the site includes research stories from featured post grads and will soon display pictures from previous Post Graduate Society events, beginning with the 2008 Annual Retreat.

We give many thanks to Camilo Rosero for a great job creating the website.

Check us out at http://bti.cornell.edu/PGS.php and let us know what you think!

Frank Schroeder published in Nature:
Sex and lifespan linked in worms: a family of sugar-like molecules controls both

Where scientists once focused on DNA and proteins as the major players in an organism's biology, they are now realizing that smaller, but more structurally diverse chemicals - simply called "small molecules" - are a significant part of a living thing's biology.
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BTI Post-Graduate Society is organizing its annual retreat on Friday, August 22nd at Celebrations in Ithaca

We will have two talks by Dr. Tony Bretscher, Molecular Biology and Genetics, and Joss Rose (Plant Biology), and count on your participation, as well as on your poster's contribution, to make this day a pleasant reunion around science, food and social activities... A call for attendance will follow soon...

Winners of the 2008 Colonel’s Cup Challenge

Our research experience for undergraduates program culminates with an annual student symposium called the “Colonel’s Cup Challenge.”

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BTI scientists star in JoVE movies

BTI scientists recently exhibited their acting skills for the Journal of Visualized Experiments (www.jove.com). These scientists showed the world that bugs are cool, particularly in their interactions with host plants.

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2008 Seminars