PlantEd:
Genome Editing in Plants
JOIN AAB / RENEW
WHY JOIN AAB?
Between 2019-2023 the COST Action PlantEd brought together over 600 experts from across Europe and beyond. These members represent a range of disciplines and sectors all with a focus on plant genome editing. PlantEd advanced the technical forefronts, assessed the impact of the technology, discussed regulatory options, monitored public perceptions, and developed a number of outreach and educational activities.
At the end of COST Association-funding PlantEd has transitioned to become an AAB Specialist Group. We aim to keep this community of experts together by sharing relevant information and through organisational of conferences and workshops.
AAB cannot match the generosity of the COST Association with regard the amount of financial support for meeting delegates but with our non-profit stance we will endeavour to arrange affordable and exciting events.
We welcome ideas for conferences or other activities from all PlantEd or AAB members. Please share your ideas with the specialist group commitee or with the AAB office. We look forward to meeting you soon at one of our events.
Please visit the Cost Association PlantEd website.
Please visit the COST_PlantEd YouTube Channel
PlantEd Group Convener
Goetz Hensel
Goetz is Head of Centre for Plant Genome Engineering at the Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. The main focus is on targeted genome modification of plants. This includes classical transgenic approaches but also the use of new methods of targeted mutagenesis, better known as CRISPR/Cas technology. The aim will be to establish and develop suitable vector and tissue culture systems for plant species that are in the research focus within CEPLAS, which will enable genetic transformation and thus genome modification.
Group Members
Dennis Eriksson
Dennis
Sebastien Carpentier
Ankica Kondić Špika
Mladen Petres
Mladen Petreš is a Plant Pathologist and a Research Associate at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Agriculture, Republic of Serbia. As a Fulbright Visiting Student, he gained expertise in bioinformatics and fungal comparative genomics. He is dedicated to understanding plant-pathogen interactions and is interested application of cutting-edge genome editing techniques like CRISPR/Cas9.
Dragana Miladinovic
dragana.miladinovic@ifvcns.ns.ac.rs
I am Research and Mentoring Coordinator at Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops in Serbia.
Jeremy Sweet
Jeremy is Director at Sweet Environmental Consultants a part of J T Environmental Consultants.
Katrijn Van Laere
katrijn.vanlaere@ilvo.vlaanderen.be
Katrijn Van Laere is a Bioscience Engineer (Ghent University, 2002) trained in plant genetics and breeding. She works at the Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food as a senior scientist. Her research is focussed on supporting plant breeding with in vitro, molecular and cytogenetic techniques. Among others, she is one of the leading members of the CRISPR/Cas genome editing team at ILVO, where she focus on the implementation of CRISPR/Cas technologies for several crops and traits, such as altering Cichorium bitterness, induce Phytophthora resistance in Solanum tuberosum, and increasing the production of high-value compounds in microalgae. She was vice-leader of WG1 of COST Action PlantEd (https://plantgenomeediting.eu).
Maria Dellino
Maria is a Postdoc researcher in Plant Science at the Department of Soil, Plant and Food Sciences (DiSSPA), University “Aldo Moro” of Bari, Italy. During her PhD visiting student at the Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology of the Plant (IBMCP), Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), she worked on genome editing in tomatoes. In particular, on the use of CRISPR/Cas9 technology to improve the quality of tomato fruits by reducing the content of allergenic and anti-nutritional molecules. Her research focuses on genome editing in tomatoes, and the use of molecular markers to identify durum wheat varieties (food traceability). She is currently involved in numerous projects including integrated approaches for genetic improvement, selection and obtaining plant materials resistant to Xylella fastidiosa (RIGENERA) and the EUROSEEDS project on Novel foods
Sadiye Hayta
Sadiye leads the transformation and genome editing of wheat at the John Innes Centre. This role involves collaborations on many different projects, with both internal groups and external institutes and universities.
Her interest is innovations in transformation and genome editing technologies to meet specific research goals in wheat. She focusses on innovative strategies to further improve wheat transformation and editing technologies. This includes work to further extend the efficiency of wheat transformation and the range of amenable genotypes; as well as to develop advanced genome editing technologies adapted for use in wheat. Sadiye is also an honorary lecturer at the University of East Anglia, UK.
Ewa Wozniak-Gientka
ewozniak@ibch.poznan.pl
Ewa works as an assistant professor at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences (IBCH PAS). She is the head of the Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development Team at IBCH PAS in Poznan. She is interested in the socio-economic aspects of bioeconomy, circular economy, biotechnology, and new genomic techniques.
In 2017-2020, she was a contractor in the international project entitled ‘Innovative processing technology of rapeseed products for poultry nutrition’ (ProRapeseed; ERANET- CORNET #22/87/2017). She implemented the task ‘Commercial potential of new products in a competitive market’. She was a member of the PlantEd COST action (CA18111, 2019-2023), a vice leader of WG4 and a Management Committee Substitute in this project. She is the project manager of the Polish National Science Centre grant ‘Conditions for the development of bioeconomy from a regional perspective’ (no 2023/07/X/HS4/00406).
Agnes Ricroch
agnes.ricroch@universite-paris-saclay.fr
Agnes holds a PhD in plant science and obtained an HDR (ability to conduct researches) from Paris-Saclay University (Orsay, France) in genetic resources and plant breeding. She was a visiting researcher at Texas Tech University and Duke University (USA) and at the John Innes Institute (UK). She is a senior lecturer in evolutionary genetics and plant breeding at AgroParisTech (Palaiseau, France) and Adjunct Professor at Pennsylvania State University, College of Agricultural Sciences (USA), she teaches biotechnology and bioethics since 2016. She is a researcher in IDEST laboratory at Paris-Saclay University, Faculty Jean-Monnet, Sceaux (France), where her research focuses on benefits-risk assessment and regulation of green biotechnology (GMO, New Genomic Techniques). Agnes is a Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour of France in 2019.