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Plant Transgene Genetics

Date: Monday, January 16, 2017
Time: 12:50 PM-3:00 PM
Room: Town and Country
Organizers:
Yingzhen Yang and Gan-Yuan Zhong
12:50 PM
Engineering Carboxysomes into C3 Plants
Maureen Hanson, Cornell University; Myat T Lin, Cornell University; Elizabiete Carmo-Silva, University of Lancaster; Alessandro Occhialini, Rothamsted Research; John Andralojc, Rothamsted Research; Martin A.J. Parry, University of Lancaster

1:10 PM
CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Gene Targeting for Crop Improvement
Yongwei Sun, Institute of Crop Sciences, CAAS; Yunde Zhao, Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego; Lanqin Xia, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

1:50 PM
Simultaneous Knockdown of Six Non-Family Genes using a Single Synthetic RNAi Fragment in Arabidopsis thaliana
Jay Chen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Olaf Czarnecki, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Anthony C. Bryan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Sara S. Jawdy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Xiaohan Yang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Zong-Ming (Max) Cheng, Horticulture Research; Jerry Tuskan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

2:10 PM
Towards a Solution for Hidden Hunger: Folate Biofortification of Crop Plants
Dieter Blancquaert, Ghent University; Jeroen Van Daele, Ghent University; Simon Strobbe, Ghent University; Filip Kiekens, Ghent University; Sergei Storozhenko, Ghent University; Hans De Steur, Ghent University; Xavier Gellynck, Ghent University; Willy Lambert, Ghent University; Christophe Stove, Ghent University; Dominique Van Der Straeten, Ghent University

2:30 PM
Cross-Kingdom RNAi and Plant Disease Control
Hailing Jin, University of California; Ming Wang, University of California, Riverside; Arne Weiberg, Institute of Genetics, University of Munich Martinsried; Feng-Mao Lin, National Chiao Tung University; Hsien-Da Huang, National Chiao Tung University; Bart Thomma, Wageningen University

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