Masterclasses

Masterclass Series: Crop Transformation for Genome Editing

April 27th – June 22nd, 2021

Co-organisers: Christian Rogers, Kan Wang, Dave Somers, Nigel Taylor, Wendy Harwood

Video Links for Previous Masterclasses in Crop Engineering:


Tuesday May 25th, 2021

Bill Gordon-Kamm

Corteva Agriscience

Leaf transformation as a new platform for genome editing in maize and other cereals

Dan Voytas

University of Minnesota

Overcoming bottlenecks in editing plant genomes

 

David Pacheco Villalobos

KWS

Boosting transformation with GRF genes in dicots and monocots

 

Kan Wang/Minjeong Kang

Iowa State University

Towards genetic transformation of recalcitrant maize inbred lines: how to convert an art to science

Sergei Svitashev

Corteva Agriscience

Genome editing and plant breeding

 

Bill Gordon-Kamm

Corteva Agriscience

Wus2/Bbm methods for immature embryo transformation/editing in cereal crops

Thomas Jacobs

VIB Ghent

How do you CRISPR? Streamlining genome editing projects in plants

Qiudeng Que

Syngenta

Simultaneous Gene Editing and Haploid Induction in Broad Germplasms

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Magdy Mahfouz

King Abdullah University of Science & Technology

Genome editing technologies for engineering crops of the future: Synthetic Directed Evolution

Rebecca Bart

Donald Danforth Plant Science Centre

Targeted methylation to affect gene expression

 

 

 

 

Masterclass 4

Tuesday June 8th, 2021

Masterclass 5

Tuesday June 15th, 2021

Masterclass 6

Tuesday June 22nd, 2021

 

Donald Danforth Plant Science Centre

Overview of capacity and challenges in cassava morphogenic and genetic transformation

John Innes Centre

Introduction and overview of challenges and strategies in small-grain transformation

T J Higgins

CSIRO

Interview: The pathway to delivery of a transgenic cowpea product to African farmers.

ETH Zurich

Genome editing and speed breeding for cassava improvement

John Innes Centre

Wheat – Efficient transformation and genome editing

Heidi Kaeppler

Wisconsin Crop Improvement Centre

Genotype-flexible, meristem-based transformation of soybean targeting optimized embryonic axis explants

FAU Erlangen

Setting up cassava transformation at Erlangen

National Institute of Agricultural Botany

An overview of the NIAB cereal transformation platform

Corteva Agriscience

Advanced cowpea transformation and genome editing system using embryonic axis explants

 

 

National Agricultural Research Organization, Uganda

Cassava transformation pipeline adapted for the Ugandan conditions

University of Minnesota

Eragrostis tef Transformation using Developmental Regulators Baby boom and Wuschel

University of Georgia

Cowpea transformation transportability across labs

National Root Crop Research Institute

Exploring the transformation potency of farmer preferred cassava cultivars

University of Rhode Island

Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of rice (Oryza sativa cv. Nipponbare) from mature seeds: a stalwart of cereal transformation

University of Georgia

Soybean transformation via somatic embryogenesis

Wageningen University and Research

Cassava Agrobacterium rhizogenes-mediated root transformation

University of Nebraska

Introducing novel bits of genetic variation into soybean

EMBRAPA

Genetic engineering applied to leguminous species