WORKSHOP: Training the Next Generation of Workers and Outreach in Plant Tissue Culture for Crop Improvement Using Genome Editing

研讨会：培训下一代工人并推广植物组织培养，利用基因组编辑改良作物

• 批准号: 2220889
• 负责人: Michele Schultz
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: Society for In Vitro Biology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2220889&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WORKSHOP; Training; Next; Generation; Workers

The Society for In Vitro Biology (SIVB) will hold four workshops at its 2022 and 2023 annual meetings designed to educate participants on the topics of plant tissue culture and genetic engineering. The workshops will target researchers including faculty, students, post-docs, and industry personnel involved in utilizing plant tissue culture and gene insertion techniques for the development of improved crop cultivars. Programs will contain both in-person and virtual content. Following the conferences, presentations and other generated materials will be made available to interested groups who wish to use them for research and educational purposes in classroom teaching or laboratory sessions.Currently there is a need for experts in the field of plant tissue culture and transformation. Many have spent decades of research and continually seek opportunities to share and disseminate knowledge, good practices and learnings to the emerging group of scientists, especially those in underserved or minority communities who may not have ready access to this information. These workshops serve as a perfect platform and aim to target new and young faculty and industry personnel involved in tissue culture and genetic engineering/genome editing research along with students and community college educators who wish to introduce these topics in the classroom. It is the expectation that organizers will generate sets of informational material that will enable the long-term dissemination of this crucial knowledge. The workshops will impact a diverse community of researchers who are involved in plant tissue culture and genetic engineering/genome editing research activities. It will also ensure that the expertise generated in the area of in vitro plant tissue culture during the 20th century will be successfully passed on to the incoming generations of new researchers and help create a workforce for advancing genome engineering and crop improvement technologies.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

体外生物学学会 (SIVB) 将在 2022 年和 2023 年年会上举办四场研讨会，旨在向参与者提供有关植物组织培养和基因工程主题的教育。这些研讨会的对象是参与利用植物组织培养和基因插入技术开发改良作物品种的教师、学生、博士后和行业人员等研究人员。节目将包含现场内容和虚拟内容。会议结束后，将向希望在课堂教学或实验室会议中将其用于研究和教育目的的感兴趣的团体提供演示文稿和其他生成的材料。目前需要植物组织培养和转化领域的专家。许多人花费了数十年的研究时间，不断寻找机会向新兴科学家群体分享和传播知识、良好实践和学习成果，特别是那些生活在服务不足或少数群体社区、可能无法随时获取这些信息的科学家。这些研讨会是一个完美的平台，旨在针对参与组织培养和基因工程/基因组编辑研究的新年轻教师和行业人员，以及希望在课堂上介绍这些主题的学生和社区大学教育工作者。我们期望组织者能够生成一系列信息材料，以实现这一重要知识的长期传播。这些研讨会将影响参与植物组织培养和基因工程/基因组编辑研究活动的多元化研究人员群体。它还将确保 20 世纪体外植物组织培养领域产生​​的专业知识能够成功地传递给下一代新研究人员，并帮助培养一支推动基因组工程和作物改良技术的劳动力队伍。该奖项反映了通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，NSF 的法定使命被认为值得支持。