AAB-PlantEd Webinar: June 4th

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 June 4th at 3pm CET, 2pm BST

Speakers:

Dr Tom Schreiber, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Germany
– Engineered CRISPR endonucleases favoring homology directed-repair in plants

Prof. Musa Kavas, Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi, Turkey
– CRISPR-Mediated revolution in the improvement of tomatoes and other fruit crops

This webinar will have a 1 hour duration with both 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

Tom Schreiber: After school and two years of service in the German armed forces, I started to study biology at the Martin-Luther-University (MLU) in Halle, Germany in 2003. I graduated in 2009 working on transcription activator-like effector (TALE) homologs from Ralstonia Solanacearum in the Lab of Prof. Thomas Lahaye (MLU Halle). During my PhD in the lab of Prof. Ulla Bonas (2010-2015, MLU Halle) I continued to work on the molecular mechanisms of sequence specific TALE-DNA interactions. Here, I already got fascinated by programmable nucleic acid binding systems and how these proteins/systems work on molecular levels. After my PhD I moved to the field of synthetic biology in the lab of Prof. Alain Tissier (2015-now, IPB Halle). Here I expanded the repertoire of programmable tools for nucleic acid targeting (amiRNAs, CRISPR systems) and their application for synthetic circuits, metabolic engineering and genome editing in plants.

Prof. Musa Kavas https://avesis.omu.edu.tr/musa.kavas