Agenda: Recombination and Genome Editing in Plants

Agenda

Conference Organizer:
Gaganpreet Sidhu, PhD
Research Director, Meiogenix Inc.
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Please note that this tentative schedule is subject to change. Each speaker will present their talk live. The presentations' recordings will be accessible to registered attendees after the sessions, contingent upon speakers who have granted permission.

Day 1

Time (Eastern)	Event
9:00 am—9:10 am	FASEB and Organizer Welcome
9:10 am—9:40 am	Breaking and Chewing DNA: Meiotic Break Formation and Processing Scott Keeney, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
9:40 am—10:10 am	The Regulatory Mechanism of the Meiosis-specific Recombinase DMC1 Degradation Yingxiang Wang, PhD, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
10:10 am—10:40 am	Recent Progress in Genome Engineering: From Tools to Applications Holger Puchta, PhD, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
10:40 am—11:10 am	Versatile Plant Genome Engineering with CRISPR-Combo Systems Yiping Qi, PhD, University of Maryland, College, Park, MD
11:10 am—11:30 am	Break
11:30 am—12:00 pm	Instability and Recombination of a Circular Minichromosome In Arabidopsis Luca Comai, PhD, University of California, Davis, CA
12:00 pm—12:30 pm	Sex and Strain Differences in Mouse Meiotic Recombination Tegan Horan, PhD, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
12:30 pm—12:40 pm	Organizer Wrap-up, Day 1

Day 2

Time (Eastern)	Event
9:00 am—9:10 am	Organizer Recap of Day 1 and Kickoff
9:10 am –9:40 am	CRISPR-induced DNA Breaks: From Precise Repair to Catastrophic Chromosomal Rearrangements Avraham Levy, PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
9:40 am—10:10 am	The Development and Application of Precision Genome Editing Technologies Kevin Zhao PhD, Qi Biodesign, Beijing, China
10:10 am—10:40 am	A Crossroads of CRISPR, Epigenetics, and DNA Repair in Plants Feng Zhang, PhD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
10:40 am—11:10 am	Genetic and Epigenetic Regulation of Meiotic Recombination in Maize Meixia Zhao, PhD, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
11:10 am—11:30 am	Break
11:30 am—12:00 pm	Diffusion and Dewetting Underlie Crossover Patterning Abby Dernburg, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, CA
12:00 pm—12:30 pm	A Mechanical Basis for Crossover Interference: Experimental Evidence Nancy Kleckner, PhD, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
12:30 pm—12:40 am	Organizer Closing Remarks