Welcome to the 2nd event of Connecting Plants & People Webinar Series by Physiologia Plantarum and the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society. We feature the most recent work of up-and-coming scientists from the PPL and SPPS community.
Please register, for free, directly on the webinar platform.
The webinar is divided in two, before the live event you have the opportunity to view the pre-recorded presentations (20 min/talk) to get an in-depth view. At the event itself the speakers will give a quick summary (5-10 min) after which there will be time for questions and discussions with the speakers and the other participants.
October 21 – November 4, 2021: View the pre-recorded presentations
November 4, 2021: Live event (all times are shown as Stockholm time – CEST)
Program
12:30 – 12:40: Welcome by hosts Prof. Yrjö Helariutta and Prof. Christiane Funk
12: 40 – 13:10: 5-minute summaries by the speakers:
Dr. Caixia Gao, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Next Generation CRISPR Technologies and Their Applications in Crop Improvement
Dr. Holger Puchta, Karlruhe Insitute for Technolgy
Applying CRISPR/Cas to plants: from gene editing to chromosome engineering
Dr. Ari Pekka Mähönen, University of Helsinki
An inducible genome editing system for plants
Dr. Marianne Nymark, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
CRISPR/Cas9 as a tool for strain improvement in diatoms
Dr. Sruthy Maria Augustine, Justus-Liebig University Giessen
Genome editing using CRISPR-Cas9 for crop improvement
Dr. Stefan Jansson, Umeå University
Why has it been so hard for the EU to decide about regulation of genome editing?
Dr. Dennis Eriksson, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
Current developments on the regulatory situation for new genomic techniques
13:15-14:15 Q&A and Panel discussion
14:15-15:00: Open discussion
Join the discussion rooms and meet the speakers for an informal conversation
Organizers
Dr. Zsofia R. Stangl, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences & SPPS steering committee
Contact: zsofia.reka.stangl@slu.se
Prof. Christiane Funk, Umeå University & SPPS steering committee
Prof. Yrjö Helariutta, University of Helsinki & subject editor at PPL
Prof. Vaughan Hurry, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences & Editor in chief of PPL
Prof. Barbara A. Halkier, Unviersity of Copenhagen
Dr. Anke Carius, Secretary of SPPS
Prof. Paul Grini, University of Oslo & SPPS steering committee
Background photo by Dr. Anke Carius, SPPS; DNA-double helix drawing by Dr. Daria Chrobok, DC SciArt