Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In front of a live audience in Washington, D.C., Berkeley Lab Postdoctoral Researcher Anne Villacastin competed at the first US DOE National Lab Research SLAM with her talk "Sorghum and Me: a Complicated Relationship." Villacastin is working to improve sorghum transformation to maximize its potential as a bioenergy crop. She was awarded First Place and People's Choice Awards at two local competitions, the Berkeley Lab SLAM and at the Bay Area SLAM featuring competitors from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Learn more about Anne Villacastin and the other National Lab Research SLAM Finalists at nlresearchslam.org

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