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AAB-PlantEd Webinar: July 9th
July 9 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Over the past four years the PlantEd Cost Action hosted a range of webinars in which global experts reported on their research and policy work in the area of plant genome editing.
As the PlantEd Core Group moved to form a Specialist Group in the AAB we are continuing with this webinar series. https://www.aab.org.uk/specialist-groups/planted/
The next AAB-PlantEd webinar is on Tuesday July 9th 4th at 3pm CET, 2pm BST
Speakers
Dr Siddharth Tiwari, National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute, Mohali, India: Genome Editing for Improving Nutritional Quality in Banana
Dr Vittoria Brambilla, Università degli Studi di Milano Italy: Gene editing in rice: an Italian journey to bring it to the field
This webinar will have a 1 hour duration with speakers allocated 30minutes for their talk and Q+A.
Please register for FREE here ->
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0uceqhpz8pHd2moz-zD3ZrCR8fwWm1n-ed
Speaker Introductions
Siddwarth Tiwari: Dr Tiwari has an academic background of Genetics in Master and Plant Biotechnology in the Ph.D. He completed Ph.D. from National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), Lucknow, India on the “Genetic Transformation in Peanut and Studies on the Expression of Promoters and a δ-endotoxin Coding Insecticidal Gene”. He then joined National Agri-food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), an institute under the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, at Mohali, Punjab, India in July 2010 and presently working as Scientist F. His area of specialization includes Plant Tissue Culture, Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering. His group is presently working on the metabolic engineering of staple crops like banana and wheat for nutritional enrichment by using modern biotechnological approaches like transgenic and CRISPR-Cas based genome editing.
Vittoria Brambilla is Associate Professor in Botany at Milan University. She obtained a PhD in Plant Biology in 2008 at Milan University and worked as a post doc researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne until 2011. She studies the molecular bases of rice flowering, and she is interested in applying NGTs for breeding Italian ricevarieties.