Transgenic Plants & Transformation Technologies VI (July 2022)
Welcome to the 6th International Conference on ”Transgenic Plants & Transformation Technologies”!
Plant Transformation and Transgenic Plants are nowadays core research tools to fight against hunger, to open up the new avenues of science, to evolve the crop varieties, which are multipurpose, producing high harvests under normal and natural stressful conditions to make Earth green and prosperous. The major technical challenge facing plant transformation is the development of methods and constructs to produce a high proportion of plants showing predictable and precise transgene expression without collateral genetic damage.
The 6th International Conference “Transgenic Plants & Transformation Technologies” to be held in Vienna, Austria on July 6-7, 2022 will discuss current key objectives of the plant transformation technologies, including understanding and control of precise transgene integration, expression and stability in plants, improved transformation systems, address biosafety considerations and develop GM crops for the benefit of developing countries.
This two-day event will provide leading academy and industry scientists a platform to communicate recent advances in “Transgenic Plants & Transformation Technologies”, and an opportunity to establish multilateral collaboration.
The 6th International Conference on “Transgenic Plants & Transformation Technologies” will cover the following research topics:
- Agrobacterium and Other Methods of Transformation
- Novel Plant Transformation Systym
- Transformation Elements: Vectors, Promoters, Selection Systyms
- Plastid Transformation & Molecular Pharming
- Marker Free Technologies
- Plant Transformation of Important Crops
- Genetic Engineering of Useful Traits
Approximately 150 participants are expected to attend this exciting scientific forum including almost 30 lectures delivered by worldwide known invited speakers and young, talented speakers selected from submitted abstracts. The program combines plenary lectures, poster sessions, a unique Conference Dinner Party and sightseeing tours of Vienna.
Prof. Alisher Touraev (VISCEA, Austria, Local Organizer)
Organizing Committee
| Local Organizing Committee | International Organizing Committee |
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Alisher Touraev (Local Organizer, Austria)
Huw Jones (Conference Co-Chair, UK)
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Kirankumar S. Mysore (USA):
Yurong Chen (USA) Goetz Hensel (Germany) Matthew Milner (UK) Fredy Altpeter (USA) Huw Jones (UK) Stanton Bruce Gelvin (USA) Lan-Ying Lee (USA) Catherine Navarre (Belgium) Matthew Milner (UK) Linda Avesani (Italy) Goetz Hensel (Germany), Stephan Wenkel (Denmark) |
Kirankumar S. Mysore (USA):
Yurong Chen (USA)
Goetz Hensel (Germany)
Matthew Milner (UK)
Fredy Altpeter (USA)
Huw Jones (UK)
Stanton Bruce Gelvin (USA)
Lan-Ying Lee (USA)
Catherine Navarre (Belgium)
Matthew Milner (UK)
Linda Avesani (Italy)
Goetz Hensel (Germany),
Stephan Wenkel (Denmark)
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6th International Conference on “Transgenic Plants & Transformation Technologies”
(July 6-7) |
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| July 6 (Wednesday) | |
| 08.00 – 17.00 | Registration |
| 09.00 – 09.10 |
Opening Welcome address by Alisher Touraev (Local Organizer, Austria)Welcome address by Huw Jones (Conference Co-Chair, United Kingdom) |
| 09.10 – 10.25 (+5) |
Keynote Lecture
Huw Jones (UK) Cereal Functional Genomics using Transformation Technologies |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 – 12.30: | Session I: Agrobacterium & Biolistic Plant Transformation |
| Chairs | Kirankumar S. Mysore (USA) & Yurong Chen (USA) |
| 11.00 – 11.25 (+5) |
Kirankumar S. Mysore (USA): Agrobacterium expressing a type III secretion
system delivers Pseudomonas effectors into plant cells to enhance transformation |
| 11.30 – 11.55 (+5) | Yurong Chen (USA): Direct Germline Transformation of Cotton Meristem Explants With No Selection |
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12.00 – 12.20 (+5)
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Andrea Saba Mayoral (Spain): Biolistic-mediated transformation of the Spanish elite rice genotype Bomba |
| 12.25 – 14.00 | Lunch + Poster Session (all numbers), Conference Photo |
| 14.00 – 15.20 | Session II: Transformation of Important Crops |
| Chairs | Goetz Hensel (Germany) & Matthew Milner (UK) |
| 14.00 – 14.25 (+5) | Goetz Hensel (Germany): Genetic transformation of Triticeae cereals – Summary of almost three-decade’s development. |
| 14.30 – 14.55 (+5) | Matthew Milner (UK): From Delivery to Phenotype: Recent Improvements in Transformation and Gene Editing in Cereals |
| 15.00 – 15.25 (+5) | Fang-Ming Lai (USA): Application of highly efficient assays for evaluating gene editing tools in caneberries |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Coffee break |
| 16.00 – 17.35 | Session III: Plant Transformation Elements |
| Chairs | Huw Jones (UK) & Goetz Hensel (Germany) |
| 16.00 – 16.20 (+5) | Stanton Bruce Gelvin (USA): Understanding the mechanism of T-DNA integration into the plant genome. |
| 16.25 – 16.40 (+5) | Lennart Hoengenaert (Belgium): Transgene-free genome engineering in poplar through transient expression of Cas9-coding DNA |
| 16.45 – 17.05 (+5) | Lan-Ying Lee (USA): Improving Agrobacterium-mediated delivery of genome editing reagents: Potential for improving T-DNA delivery and regulating T-DNA integration. |
| 17.10 – 17.25 (+5) | Laura Hernández-Soriano (Mexico): Functional Analysis of Flowering Locus T During the Reproductive Transition in Agave tequilana |
| 17.30 – 19.00 | Welcome Reception + Poster Session (all numbers) |
| 19.00 – 22.00 |
Conference Dinner Party Traditional Austrian food and wine, located in one of Vienna’s famous ‘Heurigen’ Cost: 50,- EUR |
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July 7 (Thursday) |
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| 08.00 – 17.00 | Registration |
| 09.00 – 10.30 | Session IV: Plastid Transformation & Molecular Pharming |
| Chairs | Catherine Navarre (Belgium) & Linda Avesani (Italy) |
| 09.00 – 09.20 (+5) | Catherine Navarre (Belgium): Glycoengineering of Nicotiana tabacum BY-2 cells for pharmaceutical proteins production |
| 09.25 – 09.45 (+5) | Linda Avesani (Italy): Plant Molecular Farming as a Strategy Against COVID-19 – The Italian Perspective. |
| 09.50 – 10.05 (+5) | Wenshu He (Spain): A crucial first step in engineering nitrogenase in cereal crops: expression of functional Fe protein (NifH) in rice mitochondria |
| 10.10 – 10.25 (+5) | Inger Holme (Denmark): Horizontal Stacking of PAPhy_a Cisgenes in Barley Is a Potent Strategy for Increasing Mature Grain Phytase Activity |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Session V: Genetic Engineering of Useful Traits |
| Chairs | Fredy Altpeter (USA) & Stephan Wenkel (Denmark) |
| 11.00 – 11.25 (+5) | Fredy Altpeter (USA): Towards Oilcane: Metabolic Engineering for Hyperaccumulation of Lipids in Sugarcane |
| 11.30 – 11.55 (+5) | Xin Huang (Spain): Reconstitution of a heterologous crocin biosynthetic pathway in Nicotiana |
| 12.00 – 13.30 | Closing Ceremony + Lunch |
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