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July 27th, 2026 - Dr. David Jackson
Dr. David Jackson of Cold Spring Harbor Lab joins Heart of The East End Gianna Volpe on WLIW-FM after being inducted as a Fellow into the Royal Society—putting him in league with likes of Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin, and Stephen Hawking—for his lab’s discovery of several genes controlling plant architecture by exerting influence on stem cells, which could be used to boost plant yield.
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