In the realm of DNA and genotyping, technologies advance continuously. In order to remain competitive in this changing field, researchers are always following what is new and what the future will hold.
Richard Vierling, director of the Indiana Crop Improvement Genetics Program at Purdue University, spoke to approximately 35 students Friday at the Cooper Science Building about more efficient and cost-effective ways to work with genetics.
"You have to be able to use DNA as efficiently as possible," Vierling said. "You don't need big stretches of DNA to make your call."
Students attending the lecture said they had differing reactions.
"I thought it was interesting," Anna Gryvas, a junior genetics and biochemistry major, said. "The work on my thesis follows along with this. It's good to get perspectives on ways to do things better."
Vierling got his bachelor's degree in biochemistry and his master's degree in genetics from the University of Missouri. He worked in crop genetics and earned his PhD from Texas Tech University.
The name of the lecture was MOL-PCR: Multiplexing for Dummies.
While the new technology was highly praised by Vierling, he said obstacles remain.
"Bioinformatics is the biggest obstacle for this to be used outside the student community," Vierling said.
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