{"id":3529,"date":"2018-07-31T14:24:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T18:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/science-talk\/?p=3529"},"modified":"2018-07-31T14:24:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T18:24:42","slug":"summer-science-nybgs-cullman-interns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/science-talk\/2018\/07\/summer-science-nybgs-cullman-interns\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Science: NYBG\u2019s Cullman Interns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stevenson Swanson is Associate Director of Public Relations at The New York Botanical Garden.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\n\"Cullman<\/a>\n

One of the highlights of summer at The New York Botanical Garden is the annual Cullman Intern Lunch, celebrating the diligent efforts and bright potential of the high school, college, and graduate students who work with Botanical Garden scientists studying the DNA and genomes of plants to understand their evolution and development.
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\nThrough this internship program, which is supported by NYBG Life Trustee Lewis Cullman, the Garden provides valuable learning and mentoring opportunities to aspiring young scientists, working on projects that can help launch careers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about the future,\u201d Dennis Stevenson, Ph.D., Vice President and Cullman Curator, said in his welcoming remarks at this year\u2019s lunch, held recently in the Cullman Conference Room at the Pfizer Plant Research Laboratory. \u201cYou can\u2019t move into the future if you don\u2019t train the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

As an example of that training, Livia Martinez, an undergraduate at Barnard College, talked about her work on a project exploring the development of leaf structure in ginkgo trees.<\/p>\n

Terry Verheggen, a high-school student at the Taft School, told the gathering that he is using both the DNA and physical characteristics of ferns to study the evolution of the plant life cycle.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s awesome to have hands-on lab experience four days a week,\u201d said Verheggen, who hopes to pursue a career in plant science.<\/p>\n

Following the interns\u2019 summaries of their projects, Lewis Cullman reflected on the growth and accomplishments of the program that bears his name\u2014the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Program in Molecular Systematics\u2014including the Cullman Interns.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a pleasure to come here every year and see what the young people are going,\u201d he said. \u201cIt makes me very happy. I had no idea where this was going when we started. No one did.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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