Optional Evening Tour:
Tour of Nidus Center for Scientific Enterprise and
Reception at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Tuesday, October 5

Discover the wonder and intrigue of St. Louis—in the "Heart of the Biobelt."

During the course of the evening, attendees toured the Nidus Center for Scientific Enterprise, a nonprofit, 40,000-square-foot plant and life science incubator that supports entrepreneurial clients who are refining and preparing new technologies. Opened in 2000, the Nidus Center was the first laboratory to receive LEED™ certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. Ultimately achieving LEED™ Silver, the Nidus Center's impressive shell provides an atmosphere of creativity for the research it houses. This guided tour highlighted the Center's use of energy recovery, as well as a myriad of other sustainable design features.

The evening continued with a relaxing reception at the nearby Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, a state-of-the-art plant research facility with a global vision to improve the human condition. The Danforth Center's research focuses on bio-fortification of foods and feeds, drought tolerance of crops, novel genetic mechanisms to control pests and pathogens in plants, and developing plants as bio-renewable resources.

This evening's event was sponsored by HOK:

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