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Nothing We Eat Is Natural: The Genetics of Food (P)
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"Nothing We Eat Is Natural:
The Genetics of Food"
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
MacColl Room at 2:00pm
First Presbyterian Church
201 S. 21st St.
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The animals and plants we eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner usually bear only a passing resemblance to their ancestors. Ever since humans became farmers 10,000 year ago, we have been consciously and unconsciously modifying the organisms we eat. Many of the foods we now consider “healthy”, were once toxic to us. Our speaker will discuss the many ways that both farmers and scientists have created the ingredients of everything you find in a supermarket. You will never look at your plate the same way again!
Scott Poethig is the John H. and Margaret B. Fassitt Professor of Biology at the University of Pennsylvania. His laboratory has studied many aspects of plant development, but his primary interest is the mechanism of the juvenile-to-adult transition during shoot development. Dr. Poethig obtained his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1981 and went on to obtain post-doctoral training at Stanford University and at the University of Missouri before joining the Department of Biology in 1983. He received the Lindback Award for Distinguished teaching from Penn and has served on many advisory and editorial boards. He is a Fellow of the AAAS and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Poethig teaches a class on “The Biology of Food", and has given public lectures on the genetics and politics of food to community gardens, libraries, churches, and retirement communities. |
Registration Info
Registration is required before Monday, March 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This program will be held in the MacColl Room of the First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, 201 South 21st Street, on the southeast corner of Walnut. The entrance is on the side of the building off of 21st Street. There is an accessible entrance behind the building off of Chancellor St.
This program is free of charge to our members and volunteer partners. Non-member guests are welcome to attend up to three programs before being required to join and/or volunteer with Penn’s Village, or pay $10 per additional program.
Please register using the appropriate link below.
If you cannot register online, you may email info@pennsvillage.org or call 215-925-7333. If you register but find that you cannot attend, please cancel your reservation to make room for others.
This program is free of charge to our members and volunteer partners. Non-member guests are welcome to attend up to three programs before being required to join and/or volunteer with Penn’s Village, or pay $10 per additional program.
Group photos may be taken during this event.
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