
President Gary Forsee emphasizes the economic
development mission of the University of Missouri
during his presentation July 15 to MOBIO legislative
tour participants and local business leaders at
ABC Laboratories.

Jack Schwartz, Director of MU's Bond Life Sciences
Center, visits with Sen. Chuck Graham (D-Columbia)
about upcoming life sciences events at the center.

Rep. Steve Hodges (D-East Prairie) (left) visits with
ABC Laboratories CEO Byron Hill during the MOBIO
tour July 15.

John Viator, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
at MU (left), discusses laser research taking place
in the Bond Life Sciences Center to members of the
MOBIO tour, including (from right) Sens. Jolie
Justus and Joan Bray and Reps. Sam Komo and
Steve Hodges.

Graduate research assistant Amy Replogle, right,
shows examples of soybean nematodes to, from
left, Jessica Eades of the Department of Economic
Development and Misty Snodgrass of the Missouri
Technology Corporation as Rep. Darrell Pollock looks
on. The research laboratory is located in the Bond
Life Sciences Center.

Sens. Joan Bray and Jolie Justus examine one of
the dummies in the clinical simulation center of the
MU School of Medicine.

Dean Bill Crist (right) of MU's School of Medicine
discusses clinical simulations while Kelly Gillespie
(center) of MOBIO listens.

Rep. Steve Hodges tries his hand at a surgical
simulator while Sen. Chuck Graham and others
look on.

Dr. Steve Eubanks, Hugh W. Stephenson Jr. Chair
of Surgery and W. Alton Jones Distinguished
Professor, discusses his research.

Rep. Steve Hobbs (left) visits with UM President
Gary Forsee after the ABC Laboratories dinner.