Sen. Kit Bond discusses research progress at the
Bond Life Sciences Center with its director, Jack
Schultz, during a tour of the facility.
Dr. Walter Gassmann displays plants for Senator
Bond that are the subject of research in his
laboratory at the Bond Life Sciences Center as
students and other researchers look on.
Doctoral student Amy Replogle assists Senator
Bond as he uses a magnifying glass to get a closer
peek at the root structure of a soybean plant that
is the subject of nematode research in Dr. Melissa
Goellner Mitchum's laboratory at the Bond Life
Sciences Center.
Dr. Chris Pires points out several well-known
varieties within the Brassica plant family such as
cauliflower, kale and broccoli during presentations
to Senator Bond and his wife at the Life Sciences
Center in Columbia.