SOURCE: NCSU COLLEGE OF AG & LIFE SCIENCES, 5/6/21

The Molecular Education, Technology and Research Innovation Center (METRIC) will open a satellite Core facility in the new NC Plant Sciences Building. The new facility is tentatively scheduled for opening in April 2022 and will be home to state-of-the-art instruments that can even detect how plants communicate.

METRIC will occupy one of three Core facility spaces located in the N.C. Plant Sciences Building, a state-of-the-art research center and home to the N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative (N.C. PSI): an effort to solve some of the world’s grandest challenges affecting agriculture and society today, such as climate change and doubling the world’s current food, feed, and fiber production by 2050 to sustain the world’s rapidly growing population. 

METRIC director David Muddiman and associate director, Joe Barycki, recently discussed how the new facility’s state-of-the-art instrumentation and experienced staff scientists will help university faculty, students and postdocs—as well as their industry and government agency partners in research—accelerate discovery through interdisciplinary, team-based science.

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