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On January 17, 2018, the education staff of Department of Biology FMIPA IPB joined in an event named education staff gathering in Melrimba Garden, Puncak, Bogor. The event aims to provide a place and time to gather all of the education staff in a fun and relaxing activity as well as to get some knowledge of ornamental…

Bionic (Biology on Science and Application) 2018 is an event held once a year by Himpunan Mahasiswa Biologi (HIMABIO) IPB. The theme for this year is Local Bioresources for National Food Security intended to spread knowledge regarding recent issues about food security, especially di Indonesia. Bionic 2018 consist of several agenda, such as LKTIN (Lomba Karya Tulis Ilmiah Nasional), essay competition,…

Dr. Jong In-Choi is one of Mushroom Research Institute scientist in South Korea. The institute is said as the only national mushroom research institute in South Korea. In the institute that located on Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, Dr. Choi conduct his research activity in the field of mushroom breeding in order to get the prospective mushroom strain.  Dr. Choi explains this information in the guest lecture event of Department of…

Vulnerability to embolism is a tree key physiological trait determining the limits of drought tolerance across species. Kyra May Ute Zembold, a Master Student of Department of Plant Ecology Goettingen University, conducting the research about tree xylem vulnerability to embolism in three locations. She collects the data from rubber plantation, palm oil plantation, and lowland rainforest in Jambi, Sumatera. Her research suggests that across tree species, there was the plant with low or high resistance to embolism. The wood…

On February 1st, 2018, Prof. Dr. Ir. Suharsono DEA, Division Head of Plant Physiology and Genetics, Department of Biology, FMIPA IPB, conducted monitoring and evaluation of plantation of the new cultivars of potato in Pangalengan, Bandung. Three potato cultivars that planted in PT Agro Investama's Garden (PT AI), were Jala Ipam, IPB PAU1 (PAUS) and IPB CP1 (Sipiwan). Jala Ipam is used as raw material for frozen French fries (FFF),…