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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 April 27th, 2021
Holger PuchtaKarlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Applying CRISPR/Cas in plants: From gene editing to chromosome engineering |
Tuesday May 11th, 2021
Joyce van EckBoyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University Development of Tissue Culture and Transformation Methods: The Short Version |
Tuesday May 25th, 2021
Bill Gordon-KammCorteva Agriscience Leaf transformation as a new platform for genome editing in maize and other cereals |
Dan VoytasUniversity of Minnesota Overcoming bottlenecks in editing plant genomes |
David Pacheco VillalobosKWS Boosting transformation with GRF genes in dicots and monocots |
Kan Wang/Minjeong KangIowa State University Towards genetic transformation of recalcitrant maize inbred lines: how to convert an art to science |
Sergei SvitashevCorteva Agriscience Genome editing and plant breeding |
Bill Gordon-KammCorteva Agriscience Wus2/Bbm methods for immature embryo transformation/editing in cereal crops |
Heidi KaepplerUniversity of Wisconsin WCIC Transformation of maize inbred line LH244 via a standard (nonmorphogenic gene-based) protocol. |
Jochen KumlehnLeibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research Improvement of temperate cereals by Cas endonuclease-mediated mutagenesis |
Thomas JacobsVIB Ghent How do you CRISPR? Streamlining genome editing projects in plants |
Qiudeng QueSyngenta Simultaneous Gene Editing and Haploid Induction in Broad Germplasms |
Magdy MahfouzKing Abdullah University of Science & Technology Genome editing technologies for engineering crops of the future: Synthetic Directed Evolution |
Rebecca BartDonald Danforth Plant Science Centre Targeted methylation to affect gene expression |
Nigel TaylorDonald Danforth Plant Science Centre Overview of capacity and challenges in cassava morphogenic and genetic transformation |
Wendy HarwoodJohn Innes Centre Introduction and overview of challenges and strategies in small-grain transformation |
T J HigginsCSIRO Interview: The pathway to delivery of a transgenic cowpea product to African farmers. |
Simon BullETH Zurich Genome editing and speed breeding for cassava improvement |
Sadiye HaytaJohn Innes Centre Wheat – Efficient transformation and genome editing |
Heidi KaepplerWisconsin Crop Improvement Centre Genotype-flexible, meristem-based transformation of soybean targeting optimized embryonic axis explants |
Christian LammFAU Erlangen Setting up cassava transformation at Erlangen |
Emma WallingtonNational Institute of Agricultural Botany An overview of the NIAB cereal transformation platform |
Ping CheCorteva Agriscience Advanced cowpea transformation and genome editing system using embryonic axis explants |
Henry Wagaba/Ketra OketchoNational Agricultural Research Organization, Uganda Cassava transformation pipeline adapted for the Ugandan conditions |
Redeat TibebuUniversity of Minnesota Eragrostis tef Transformation using Developmental Regulators Baby boom and Wuschel |
Peggy Ozias-AkinsUniversity of Georgia Cowpea transformation transportability across labs |
Ihuoma OkwuonuNational Root Crop Research Institute Exploring the transformation potency of farmer preferred cassava cultivars |
Albert KauschUniversity of Rhode Island Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of rice (Oryza sativa cv. Nipponbare) from mature seeds: a stalwart of cereal transformation |
Wayne ParrotUniversity of Georgia Soybean transformation via somatic embryogenesis |
Rene GeurtsWageningen University and Research Cassava Agrobacterium rhizogenes-mediated root transformation |
Tom ClementeUniversity of Nebraska Introducing novel bits of genetic variation into soybean |
Francisco AragãoEMBRAPA Genetic engineering applied to leguminous species |