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Restoring the American Chestnut

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Shelley Casey » teaches Biology, Physical Science, and Environmental Science at Eastern Alamance High School in Alamance-Burlington Schools. Shelley has been teaching since 1996. You can email her at shelley_casey@abss.k12.nc.us.

This project was developed as part of a Kenan Fellows grant and in cooperation with Dr. Ron Sederoff, NCSU

« Ronald Sederoff, is the Distinguished University Professor and Edwin F. Conger Professor of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University (NCSU). His most significant distinction is as a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, one of three Members in all Forest Sciences. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Member of the International Academy of Wood Science. In 2004, he received an honorary degree (Doctor Honoris Causa) from the Swedish Agricultural University in Forestry. His recent work has focused on the sequence variation within and between related species of forest trees to investigate the nature of quantitative traits and to advance breeding in hybrids. Genera of interest have been pines, eucalypts and chestnuts. Integration of sequencing, proteomics and metabolite profiling form the basis for a systems approach in forest trees, particularly for lignin biosynthesis as part of a larger program in the Forest Biotechnology Group.