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SUMMARY:Election Day! Vote then watch an old colloquium | GES Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:GES Colloquium Home | GES MediaSite | Video Archives | Podcast | @GESCenterNCSU | Newsletter \nELECTION DAY – VOTE!\nIn lieu of colloquium\, we are encouraging everyone to vote today\, then if you have some free time you can pick a past colloquium to watch from our video archive\, or listen to on the podcast. \nResources\n\nRegister to vote (deadlines and info here)\nOne-stop early voting\nFind your polling location\nRequest an absentee ballot (*must be received by Board of Elections by 5 p.m.\, Tuesday\, October 27)
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SUMMARY:Anna Stepanova - Building a synbio toolbox to monitor and control plant hormone activity | GES Colloquium (Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:GES Colloquium Home | Zoom Registration | GES MediaSite | Video Archives | Podcast | @GESCenterNCSU | Newsletter \nBuilding a synbio toolbox to monitor and control plant hormone activity\nSpeaker: Anna N. Stepanova\, PhD\, Associate Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at NC State\nWebsite | Email | Twitter @AlonsoStepanova and @ANStepanova45 \nDr. Stepanova will talk about her group’s efforts to harness the power of synthetic biology and develop new molecular tools to visualize the activity of plant hormones and gain tighter control over spatiotemporal patterns of gene expression. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nNote: Colloquium will be held via Zoom until the university resumes normal operations. Click Register/Join button at the bottom of this page for Zoom link. See Virtual Colloquium: Zoom Instructions for Zoom information. \n×\nAbstract\nPhytohormones are critical regulators of plant development and environmental responses. In the past three decades\, the molecular pathways that govern hormone biosynthesis\, signaling\, and catabolism have been largely mapped out using a combination of genetics\, molecular biology\, biochemistry\, and cell biology approaches. Despite the major progress\, our ability to monitor and precisely control hormone action remains limited. With the development of inexpensive DNA synthesis technologies and the rise of synthetic biology as a new discipline at the intersection of molecular genetics and engineering\, new molecular tools can now be built to enable hormone tracking and targeted hormone manipulation. We have generated a synthetic biology toolbox that allows rapid construction of multi-hormone transcriptional reporters. In addition\, we are building CRISPR-based logic gate devices to confer novel\, highly restricted patterns of expression to any genes of interest using a limited set of available native and synthetic drivers. The latter technology can be employed to tune the expression levels and subtract undesired domains of expression from existing drivers to precisely control output genes of interest\, such as hormone biosynthesis\, signaling\, or catabolism genes\, to regulate plant architecture\, responses to stress\, and other traits of interest. By combining multi-hormone reporters and genetic logic devices\, we aim to shed fresh light on the mechanistic role of hormones in orchestrating plant development and stress physiology. That knowledge can then be relied upon to develop resilient next-generation crops. \nSpeaker Bio\nAnna Stepanova received her undergraduate training at the University of Nevada\, Reno and Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod\, Russia. She did her graduate work in the laboratory of Joseph Ecker\, earning her PhD degree in Biology from UPenn for the study of nuclear events in ethylene signaling. For her postdoctoral training\, Anna worked with Jose Alonso at North Carolina State University exploring the crosstalk between ethylene and auxin. She is currently an Associate Professor of Plant Biology and Genetics at NC State University. Her primary research interests continue to center around plant hormones\, specifically the mechanisms of ethylene signal transduction\, auxin biosynthesis\, hormone pathways’ crosstalk\, and translational regulation of hormone responses. In her work\, Anna is employing classical and molecular genetics\, genomics and synthetic biology in Arabidopsis and tomato to decipher the mechanisms governing plant adaptation and phenotypic plasticity.
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SUMMARY:Samantha Thomas- Challenges of Global Vegetable Seed Production and Delivery | GES Colloquium (Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:GES Colloquium Home | Zoom Registration | GES MediaSite | Video Archives | Podcast | @GESCenterNCSU | Newsletter \nChallenges of Global Vegetable Seed Production and Delivery\nSpeaker: Samantha Thomas\, PhD\, External Engagement Strategy Lead and Fellow at Bayer Crop Science\nWebsite | Twitter @bayer4crops \nLast GESColloquium of 2020! Sam Thomas joins us from Bayer Crop Science to discuss production and delivery challenges faced by the global vegetable seed industry in an increasingly complex regulatory environment \n\n\n\n\n\n\nNote: Colloquium will be held via Zoom until the university resumes normal operations. Click Register/Join button at the bottom of this page for Zoom link. See Virtual Colloquium: Zoom Instructions for Zoom information. \n×\nAbstract\nThis talk will provide some background on the global vegetable seed industry including touching on topics of trade\, quality seed health and phytosanitary testing\, and highlight the challenges of global trade against a new disease threat on tomatoes\, Tomato Brown Fruit Rugose Virus (ToBRFV). ToBRFV emerged in 2014 in the Middle East and since then has spread throughout the globe into all high-value tomato production markets. The disease results in deformed discolored fruits that are unmarketable and may lead to plant collapse. In the past two years\, there have been numerous regulations imposed that have made it difficult to ensure seed delivery to customers\, including seed that is used for the US food supply. \nRelated: \n\nASTA factsheet on ToBRRV: https://www.betterseed.org/wp-content/uploads/ToBRFV-QA.pdf \nISF Pest List: https://www.worldseed.org/our-work/phytosanitary-matters/pest-lists/ \n\nSpeaker Bio\nDr. Samantha Thomas (Sam) has earned a MS and Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from The Ohio State University. She has been with legacy companies now compromising Bayer Crop Science for 14 years. Currently she holds the position of External Engagement Strategy Lead. Sam works across seed industry and regulatory partners to develop and use quality tools to address the phytosanitary risks of seed movement. Her areas of expertise include seed pathology and seed health testing\, seed movement\, best management practices for vegetable seed production to which this expertise was recognized by her acceptance into the Bayer Fellow program in 2017.
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