The Meeting will commence with lunch on Friday, February 26 at noon and will conclude with lunch at noon on Saturday, February 27. Lunch on both days and Dinner on Friday will be in Cy’s Lounge and all other activities will be held in the Reiman Ballroom South.

A map of the Alumni Center and driving directions are available here in PDF format.

The Winter Meeting agenda is available below or can be downloaded here.

For further information contact either:

Linda Hurd, lhurd10@iastate.edu, 515-294-5705
or
Marty Spalding, mspaldin@iastate.edu, 515-294-4851

Friday, February 26, 2016

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch (Cy’s Lounge)

Welcome (Reiman Ballroom South):
1:00 – 1:15 Spalding

Technology applications in genome editing/engineering (Reiman Ballroom South):
1:15 – 2:00 Manipulating Rubisco Activase to improve photosynthesis and growth: Kim, Wright, Huber, Wang, Spalding
2:00 – 2:30 BR Signaling: Arabidopsis and maize: Yin, Becraft, Yang, Wang
2:30 – 3:00 CRISPR/Cas9-mediated modifications of crops and algae: Weeks

3:00 – 3:30 Break (Reiman Ballroom South)

Technology developments in genome editing/engineering (Reiman Ballroom South):
3:30 – 4:15 An update on genome editing in plants: Yang
4:15 – 4:45 Progress toward CRISPR/Cas9 mediated gene editing in soybean: Wright, Yang, Stessman, Spalding
4:45 – 5:15 Knockout Rice Service, and single step CRISPR/Cas9 vectors: Wright, Spalding, Wang

5:15 – 6:30 Dinner (Cy’s Lounge)

Seed Grant Initiative Reports:
6:30 – 7:00 Enhancing Cas9 target-binding specificity using modified sgRNA: Sashital
7:00 – 7:30 Platforms to make genome-scale Cas9/gRNA libraries for functional genomics: Yang
7:30 – 8:00 Non-DNA delivery methods for plant genome editing: Wang
8:00 – 8:30 Transformation-on-a-chip: a transformative technology for plant genetic transformation: Dong
8:30 – 9:00 Open Discussion

Saturday, February 27, 2016

8:00 – 8:30 Continental Breakfast (Reiman Ballroom South)

Future of the CBC I (Reiman Ballroom South):
8:30 – 9:00 CBC Center Proposal: Spalding
9:00 – 9:30 Opportunities and pitfalls in public plant transformation facilities: Wang
9:30 – 10:00 The regulatory status and landscape for genome editing: Wolt, Yang, Wang

10:00 – 10:30 Break (Reiman Ballroom South)

Future of the CBC II (Reiman Ballroom South):
10:30 – 12:00 Discussion on the Vision for a Crop Bioengineering Center: Becraft, Vollbrecht, Wang, Wolt

12:00 – 1:00 Box Lunch (Reiman Ballroom South)