Transgenic Plants & Transformation Technologies VI
(July 6-7, 2022)
Welcome to the 6th International Conference “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 “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
Among the invited speakers are internationally known names such as:
Huw Jones (UK), Yurong Chen (USA), Stanton Bruce Gelvin (USA), Lan-Ying Lee (USA), Catherine Navarre (Belgium), Matthew Milner (UK), Linda Avesani (Italy), Goetz Hensel (Germany), Fredy Altpeter (USA), Stephan Wenkel (Denmark),Kirankumar Mysore (USA)…
Approximately 250 participants are expected to attend this exciting scientific forum including almost 40 lectures delivered by worldwide known invited speakers and young, talented speakers selected from submitted abstracts. The program combines plenary lectures, poster sessions, exhibitions, and interesting breakout sessions.
Deadline for submission of abstracts is June 10, 2022
Early bird registration: June 20, 2022
Please note: The next VISCEA Conference “CRISPR & Plant Genome Editing” will take place immediately after “Transgenic Plants & Transformation Technologies” Conference on July 8-9, 2022 at the same location! We are pleased to offer you the chance to participate and register online for both at once for a very attractive registration fee!
We are looking forward to seeing you in Vienna on July 6-7, 2022!
Prof. Alisher Touraev (VISCEA, Austria, Local Organizer)
Prof. Huw Jones (UK, Conference Co-Organizer)
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Stephan Wenkel |
| Position | Associate Professor |
| Work Place | University of Copenhagen |
| Research Interest | Plant Developmental Biology |
| wenkel@plen.ku.dk | |
| Website | https://plen.ku.dk/english/research/plant_biochemistry/plant-development/ |
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Dr. Goetz Hensel |
| Position | Head Centre for Plant Genome Engineering |
| Work Place | Heinrich-Heine-University, Institute of Plant Biochemistry |
| Research Interest | Targeted gene modification, molecular farming, chloroplast development, photosynthesis, genetic engineering |
| goetz.hensel@hhu.de | |
| Website | Universität Düsseldorf: www.cpge.hhu.de |
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Linda Avesani |
| Position | Associate Professor |
| Work Place | Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona |
| Research Interest | Plant Genetics |
| linda.avesani@univr.it | |
| Website | – |
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Fredy Altpeter |
| Position | Professor of Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology |
| Work Place | University of Florida -IFAS |
| Research Interest | Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology |
| altpeter@ufl.edu | |
| Website | https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/641914
http://ufrfprofessors.feed.research.ufl.edu/ufrf_professors/altpeter-fredy-2/ |
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Lan-Ying Lee |
| Position | Research Scientist |
| Work Place | Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University |
| Research Interest | Bacterial genetics, plant-microbe interaction, agriculture biotechnology, Agrobacterium-mediated transformation |
| lee34@purdue.edu | |
| Website | – |
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| July 6 (Wednesday) | ||
| 08.00 – 17.00 | Registration | |
| 09.00 – 09.20 | Opening Welcome address by Alisher Touraev (Local Chair, Austria)Welcome address by Huw Jones (Co-Organizer, UK) |
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| 09.20 – 10.30 | Keynote Lecture:
Huw Jones (UK): Cereal Functional Genomics using Transformation Technologies |
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| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee break | |
| 11.00 – 12.30: | Session I: Agrobacterium & Biolistic Plant Transformation | |
| 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 | |
| 12.00 – 12.20 (+5) | 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 – 15.30 | Session II: Transformation of Important Crops | |
| 14.00 – 14.20 (+5) | Goetz Hensel (Germany): Genetic transformation of Triticeae cereals – Summary of almost three-decade’s development | |
| 14.25 – 14.45 (+5) | Matthew Milner (UK): From Delivery to Phenotype: Recent Improvements in Transformation and Gene Editing in Cereals | |
| 14.50 – 15.10 (+5) | Fang-Ming Lai (USA): Application of highly efficient assays for evaluating gene editing tools in caneberries | |
| 15.15 – 15.30 (+5) | Andrea Saba Mayoral (Spain): Rice plants as biofactories for SARS-CoV-2 antigens as candidate vaccines | |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Coffee break | |
| 16.00 – 17.30 | Session III: Plant Transformation Elements | |
| 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 | Poster Session (all numbers) + Welcome Reception | |
| 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) | ||
| 08.00 – 17.00 | Registration | |
| 09.00 – 10.30 | Session IV: Plastid Transformation & Molecular Pharming | |
| 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 of Virus Nano Particles from diagnosis to therapy | |
| 09.50 – 10.05 (+5) | Xin Huang (Spain): Reconstitution of a heterologous crocin biosynthetic pathway in Nicotiana | |
| 10.10 – 11.25 (+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 | |
| 11.00 – 11.25 (+5) | Fredy Altpeter (USA): Towards Oilcane: Metabolic Engineering for Hyperaccumulation of Lipids in Sugarcane | |
| 11.30 – 11.55 (+5) | Stephan Wenkel (Denmark): Control of flowering in rice through synthetic microProteins. | |
| 12.00 – 12.15 (+5) | Wenshu He (Spain): A crucial first step in engineering nitrogenase in cereal crops: expression of functional Fe protein (NifH) in rice mitochondria | |
| 12.20 – 14.00 (+5) | Closing Ceremony + Lunch | |