AAB-PlantEd Webinar

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 first AAB-PlantEd webinar is on Tuesday April 9th at 3pm CET.

Speakers:

Ivo Frebort (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic): An update on the regulation of NGT plants in the EU

Bing-Yang (Donald Danforth Centre, St Louis, USA): High efficiency prime editing for new strategies to engineer crop disease resistance

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/tZEpcu-tqz0uHNyNWcao7U7Y9vj39E-qbhE_

Speaker Introductions:

Professor Ivo Frébort is the founder of the Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research in Olomouc and from 2010 to 2022 was its director. He is also a member of the Executive Board and from 2020 Vice-president of the European Federation of Biotechnology (www.efbiotechnology.org). During 2014-2018 he was the Dean of the Faculty of Science at the Palacký University Olomouc. Since 2021, he has been a Deputy Director of CATRIN (www.catrin.com), where he also leads the research group of Recombinant Protein Engineering. His research covers broad areas in enzymology, molecular biology and biochemistry, with special focus on the enzymes of hormone metabolism in plants and possible biotechnological applications, including cloning and preparation of transgenic barley (WOS: 128 papers, 3000+ citations, h-30, 7 patents). His lecturing includes Molecular Biology and Structure and Function of Biomacromolecules. He was the principal investigator of a large infrastructure project (€ 35 mil) from EU structural funds and 20 other research projects.

Dr. Bing Yang is a professor in the Division of Plant Sciences at the University of Missouri – Columbia, and a member and Principal Investigator at Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis. He received PhD degree in plant pathology at Kansas State University. Yang’s research areas include developing and applying gene editing tool kits for basic understanding of disease biology of crops, as well as for genetically engineering of crop plants with improved traits. Specifically, his group has developed a suite of tool sets for high-efficiency genome editing in crop plants such as rice, maize, wheat, sorghum and soybean. His research also focuses on basic understanding of host susceptibility/resistance to bacterial infection and using genome editing tools to engineer disease resistant rice varieties.