报告题目：“Gene editing in forest trees: Policies and progress to enable innovation”
报 告 人：Distinguished Professor Steven H. Strauss, Oregon State University
时 间：2019年9月24日（星期二）上午9:30-10:30
地 点：生物楼313会议室
报告摘要：Gene editing is a highly efficient and rapidly evolving tool for breeding of trees and other organisms. However, its impact will ultimately depend on a market and regulatory environment that allows it to be efficiently studied and integerated with conventional breeding. However, there are serious roadblocks to integration in most of the world today. I will review these roadblocks, and some recent efforts by scientists to stimulate changes to them. Finally, I will show results from our recent studies to create sterile eucalypt trees using CRISPR. The goal of this work is to create a tool to mitigate its spread as an exotic or genetically engineered species where that is important for public acceptance or stewardship.
报告人简介：斯蒂文·斯特劳斯(Steven H. Strauss)博士, 美国俄勒冈州立大学杰出教授(Distinguished professor)，著名森林遗传学家。本科毕业于康奈尔大学农业与生命科学学院生物学专业，硕士毕业于耶鲁大学林业与环境业研究学院林业科学专业，博士分别毕业于加州大学伯克利森林资源学院遗传学专业。先后以访问科学家身份到挪威特隆姆瑟大学、澳大利亚国立大学和CSIRO、法国农科院、英国剑桥大学、新西兰赛恩等。任职New Phytologist、BMC Plant Biology、TGG、NZ J FORESTRY SCI、Forestry、Forest Genetics副主编、编辑等。擅长林木CRISPR/Cas9、TALEN基因编辑、RNAi等技术，在林木生物技术研究领域成就显著。2011年获美国林业协会的“巴灵顿-莫尔纪念奖”、2009年成为美国科学促进会会员。发表同行评议论文242篇(包括Science 7篇、Nature 1篇、Nature Biotech 8篇), 专著3本，应邀大会报告 254次。累计获NSF, DOE, USDA, NIH, EPA, forest industries等19.5 million US$。
个人主页：http://people.forestry.oregonstate.edu/steve-strauss/
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报告联系人：林木遗传育种学科 安新民