Serdecznie zapraszamy na wykład pod tytułem “SKIPPING MEIOSIS IN CROPS: ENGINEERING CLONAL GAMETES AND HARNESSING THEM IN BREEDING”, który wygłosi dr. Charles Underwood z Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research w Kolonii. Wykład odbędzie się we wtorek (8 sierpnia) o godzinie 10:00 w Auli Paczoskiego UAM (budynek Collegium Biologicum). Wykład i otwarta dyskusja po wykładzie będą w języku angielskim.
Doctor Charles Underwood obtained his PhD degree in 2016 at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in NY in Prof. Martienssen Group, where he studied transposon silencing and meiotic crossovers in Arabidopsis thaliana. Charles worked on meiotic recombination topic also with Dr Ian Henderson at the University of Cambridge in UK as a collaborating scientist. In 2016 he started his postdoc fellowship with Dr Peter van Dijk in KeyGene in Wageningen, where he identified the PARTHENOGENESIS gene required for apomixis (asexual reproduction through seeds) in the common dandelion and worked on the application of apomixis in crop species. Since 2019 Dr Underwood is a Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne. His team investigates the control of the two hallmarks of sexual reproduction, meiosis and fertilization, and develops new technologies to expedite plant breeding. Dr Underwood is the recipient of the ERC Starting Grant for the “AsexuaEmbyo” project (asexual reproduction through clonal seeds: mechanisms to application).