Induced mutations and tilling in the era of genome editing
Join our FREE webinar about the use of genomics in crop improvement and plant breeding on 30. March 2022, at 4:30pm CET.
With Dr. Brad Till, former Lead of IAEA Plant Breeding and Genetics Laboratory Genomics Group, University of California, Davis, and Dr. Kristian Ridley, Project Sales Manager, Agrigenomics, Eurofins Genomics. Sign up for the free webinar at: http://www.global-engage.com/event/induced-mutations-and-tilling-of-genome-editing/
Dr. Till will provide background and history around use of induced mutations for forward genetics (mutation breeding) citing examples in triploid banana and resistance to Fusarium wilt (TR4). Additionally, Dr. Till will describe the use of TILLING in tomato and discuss his recent review in Trends in Plant Science regarding complementarity of induced mutations alongside precision gene editing methods such as CRISPR.
Dr. Brad Till
Former Lead of IAEA Plant Breeding and Genetics Laboratory Genomics Group, University of California Davis, Veterinary Genetics Lab
Dr. Till is molecular biologist and genome scien-tist with over 17 years of experience in using ge-nomics to facilitate functional genomics, genetic screening and breeding. This includes developing and running high-throughput mutation discovery assays and services. He helped develop the TIL-LING reverse-genetic method and ran the Seattle TILLING Project facility for many years. Subse-quently he joined the United Nations FAO/IAEA Joint Programme to target reverse genetic tech-nologies to understudied crops important to food security in developing nations. Dr. Till received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon and currently works with the Veterinary Genetics Lab at the Uni-versity of California, Davis with a focus on bioin-formatic analysis of whole genome and targeted amplicon data sets in animals.
Dr. Kristian Ridley
Project Sales Manager, Agrigenomics,
Eurofins Genomics
Dr. Ridley is the Project Sales Manager for Agri-genomics at Eurofins Genomics, and holds a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Not-tingham, UK. Since transitioning from academic research to commercial life sciences in 2006, Kris has spent over 15 years in various roles, including Project Management, Technical Sales, and Busi-ness and Market Development. During this time, he spent 10 years based in Asia-Pacific, helping to launch various technology platforms for high throughput genotyping for applications in agrige-nomics. Kris is currently based in the UK and ma-nages global service projects across all agriculture markets, with a primary focus on microarray and NGS solutions.