[Originally published by IANR]
Angie Pannier’s love of science and math propelled her into a career in engineering.
Pannier’s research focuses on non-viral gene delivery, tissue engineering and cell material interactions, and she works on both medical application and agricultural solutions. She collaborates with researchers from around the world, including with scientists at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, in a project that uses tissue engineering to grow pig embryos to understand how to increase pork production litter size.
It is exciting for Pannier to use tissue engineering, a process originally developed to address needs for organs for transplantation, to grow pig embryos to better understand pig reproduction. After attending an agricultural conference and visiting with a pig reproductive biologist, Pannier decided to implement the idea in the lab setting.
“I think for me I did that because I love science and I love thinking about new problems, and that problem was presented to me, so I said, ‘Let’s go try it’,” Pannier said.
Pannier takes research from her lab and applies those research topics to the classroom. While a large portion of her job is in the lab with her students, helping a graduate student with a project or learning something new, you can also find her in the classroom. She strives to embody the tri-part mission of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln of teaching, research and service continue to full article.