Objectives

During the summer 2007 season we mentor four Native American Indian students for eight weeks. All four Interns worked at the USDA-ARS North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station and Maize GDB lab in Ames, Iowa, learning about plant genetic resource conservation. two interns worked on developing molecular markers for Abnormal Chromosome 10 in our lab, and two interns worked with the MaizeGDB team to create project data storage and presentation solutions.