PGRP Summer Symposium 2017
August 10, 2017 –
For the past 15 years, BTI has held a student symposium during the last week of the Plant Genomics Research Program (PGRP) summer internship program. This day-long event provides student interns an opportunity to either present their research through a presentation in our auditorium or be part of a poster session.
We will be live streaming presentations and poster sessions throughout the day on this page!
Live-stream Presentation Schedule
Note: Poster session will be live-streamed noon-2:30pm
| 9:05am | Arianna Nimocks | Determining the functions of herbivore-inducible maize genes on defense against Spodoptera exigua | Jander |
| 9:20am | Brandon Williams | Examining the transcriptomal regulators of aburscule development | Harrison |
| 9:35am | Lily Lofton | The screening of wild potato tubers for genetic resistance to soft rot disease caused by Dickeya dianthicola | Swingle |
| 9:50am | Patrick Mendoza | Identifying Genes Involved in the Establishment of Leaf Polarity within Solanum lycopersicum | Scanlon |
| 10:05am | Lauren Hamm | Using the ABI3 Promoter to Rescue Lethal Editosome Mutations | Bentolila |
| 10:45am | Eleanore Ritter | Characterization of a Putative Cutinase from Tomato Fruits | Rose |
| 11:00am | Carla Dizon | Investigating the Impact of Polyploidization on Meiotic Recombination in Zea mays | Pawlowski |
| 11:15am | Sire Kassama | A Study on Novel Plastoglobule Proteins | Van Wijk |
| 11:30am | Natalie Gonzalez | Determining successful targeting of the Cas9 protein to the chloroplast | Stern |
| 2:45am | Jordan Zonner | Testing the Use of Long ssDNA Template for Transgene Free CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing in Plants | Bogdanove |
| 3:00am | Zak Stevenson | Mobilizing pattern recognition receptor FLS3 to increase rice resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae | Bogdanove |
| 3:15am | Stephanie Brocke | Differential cell growth in Arabidopsis fruit and its relation to FUL | Roeder |