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Piyum Khatibi is a Ph.D candidate in
the Schmale Lab. He grew up on Long Island, NY and received his
B.S. from James Madison University. His interests include
science, playing/watching sports, weight lifting, watching the
news, listening to Pearl Jam, and a good beer. Piyum is
developing transgenic hulless
barley plants, which contain a gene that inactivates dangerous fungal
toxins called trichothecenes. His aim is to reduce the
concentration of trichothecenes in distillers grains, a byproduct of
ethanol biofuel
production. The distillers grains harbor these lethal toxins and
are fed to livestock, ultimately posing a threat to human and animal
health.
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