Meet Prof. Praveen Saxena Descriptive Transcriptive

A brief description of the founding of the Gosling Research Institute for Plant Preservation and the motivation for the scientist who work there.

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Text: :60 Second Snapshots
Meet the Profs of the Ontario Agricultural College

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Text: Prof. Praveen Saxeena
Director, Gosling Research Institute for Plant Preservation
Department of Plan Agriculture
Praveen: The Gosling Research Institute for Plant 
Preservation developed as a result of 
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a donation from a local foundation, the Gosling Foundation. 
Dr. Philip Gosling
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and his wife Susan Gosling were 
extremely kind and they are very passionate about
the environment. 
They wanted to save the trees that are dying because of disease
or climatic changes.
As a result of their donation we now
have an excellent centre that can cryobank almost all of the species in Canada at this time.

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Praveen: GRIPP really offers 
excellent opportunities to do research
in plant development in controlled 
environments and also saving species
at the same time. 
The programs actually 
attract a lot of graduate students
because A) They are interested in learning 
plant development. 
B) They may be interested in developing new products
and new crops. 
And C) interested in developing international 
research programs in collaboration with
other renowned institutes all over the world.

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Praveen: Many of my students are working as senior scientists
in biotechnology companies and at least five of them
are faculty members in North America. 
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In fact, one of them at the University of Guelph.

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Text: www.uoguelph.ca/oac
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