Title: Unlocking the genome and secrets of Chia seed: The Nutritional Powerhouse
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Image showing chia seeds, an assembled genome, and the flowers. (Source: Jaiswal Lab)
Chia, a tiny seed from Southern Mexico and Central America, might just be the next big thing in healthy eating!
Jaiswal Lab receives its first space biology funding from NASA to study plant transcriptomes.
Dr. Parul Gupta, a Research Associate in the Jaiswal Lab at Oregon State University and member of the NASA Plant Analysis 
Working Group (PlantAWG), was nominated by Dr. Richard Barker for her dedication and outstanding contributions to the Plant AWG. Dr.
Article Source: STEM camp article from Gazette Times (July 15, 2016)
Camp website: http://stem.planteome.org/
In the first part of Thursday's lesson, the students used dissection microscopes to examine bees as they learned about their anatomy and biology.
The second part seemed like it involved a completely different field: In it, students learned about programming basics.