Visiting Morocco, Spain, and France was an experience of a lifetime for University of Minnesota Crookston students Evelyn Stuck and Emily Haggadone, and Associate Professor Venu Mukku, Ph.D., this summer. On the trip, they visited three universities, performed experiments and continued work on a previous manuscript, and toured world famous cathedrals and museums.
Mukku and students went to universities in Tangier, Marrakech, and Agadir where they performed experiments and ventured on a one-day expedition to collect plants. They were able to use a microwave extractor and perform insecticidal assays, a new to them lab opportunity. The group also toured a university hospital in Tangier and a clinic in Marrakech which performs certain types of metabolomics studies and is identifying biomarkers in certain diseases that are more prevalent in Morocco.
At Agadir they followed up after a previous Zoom meeting with a doctoral student from the University of Ibn Zohr and continued work on a manuscript, plus visited a canning factory where they learned about the chemistry behind various quality control experiments.
