Title: Miracle drugs, fancy fragrances, and deadly poisons: how plants produce their remarkable chemicals
Blurb: How is it that some plants can kill you while others can save your life? And others just smell good or look pretty? Join us while we try to make sense of the scents that plants make with Dr Sibongile Mafu as we talk about her research into how plants produce their chemicals and what their uses are.
Dr. Sibongile Mafu is a professor at UMass Amherst. Her research focuses on exploring the vast biochemical diversity underlying plant natural product chemistry. Further understanding of the biochemical diversity underlying natural plant product chemistry can be translated into useful agriculture or biotechnological applications including pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, flavors and fragrances.
If you got the thyme wrong and missed this café, you won’t need to track it down by scent, below is a video of the entire café! If it was a fruit, it would be a fine-apple!
Life Science Cafe - Cafe de Ciencias Biologicas 