Events | Center for Precision Plant Genomics

Select Fridays at 1:00 PM in 105 Cargill and online!

Hybrid link = https://umn.zoom.us/j/99157752405

October 14th, 2022 - Visiting Scholar, in person presentation
Dr. Timothy Durrett. Kansas State University
Orchestrating seed metabolism to enhance synthesis of novel oils

Very broadly speaking, my lab is interesting understanding how plants make oil; and recently we've been working on an enzyme that synthesizes a low viscosity kind of oil. We'd like to make plants that make large quantities of this oil which we believe will be very usefull for both biofuel and chemical feedstock applications. - Kansas State University Public Relations

October 28th, 2022 - Visiting Scholar[s], in person presentation
Meristem.bio Santiago, RM, Chile - Precision Breeding Approaches in Fruit Trees
Our platform for developing new fruit plants consists on novel methods to develop molecular machinery for making precise changes in the plant's genome. We use these tools in plants through in vitro culture systems and molecular techniques to regenerate and grow new plant varieties from species such as cherry, strawberry, citrus and other fruit plants, in order to create more sustainable fruit crops. - https://meristem.bio

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November 18th, 2022
Dr. Vidhya Raman, Postdoctoral Associate, Zhang lab

December 9th, 2022 -
Dr. Zach Myers and Dr. Andy Read, Postdoctoral Associates, Springer lab

About the CPPG Meetings:

Either the PI or a student/staff person of choice may present
Kit Leffler will contact all PIs the week before their presentation date for the speaker name and title of talk. This information will be distributed via CPPG newsletter.
If it is your group’s week to present, please arrive to the Zoom call or 105 Cargill five minutes early with a flash drive in order to set up.