Scribner Seminar Program
Course Description
Living in a Green World
Instructor(s): David Domozych, Biology
Description: The 21st century offers many opportunities and challenges for humans
and their interactions with plants, fungi and protists. Do genetically modified crops
provide the answer for world agriculture? Are the ever-increasing harmful algal blooms
creating an environmental menace to our oceans, fisheries and drinking water? Can
“pharming” the rainforests provide new and improved medicines? Do the extirpation
of living resources and the prolific bioinvasion of exotic species present untenable
ramifications for our ecosystems? The origin and development of civilization ultimately
has relied on humankind’s interactions with, and harnessing of, plants, fungi and
protists. Students in this seminar will explore present and future applications of
these organisms in human affairs. Topics include modern agricultural, medicinal, and
ecological aspects of applied plant science and mycology.
Course Offered
