Engineering nitrogenase into plants: 50 years of research and hints of success
Date
05 November 2019
Time and Venues
Venues |
Local Time |
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Adelaide Waite Campus – B101-FG-R00-BoardWICWest |
12:00 pm |
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Armidale – B55-FG-R00-Small |
12:30 pm |
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Bribie Island – B01-FG-Small |
11:30 pm |
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Brisbane St Lucia QBP – Room 5.140 |
11:30 pm |
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Canberra Black Mountain – Discovery Lecture Theatre |
12:30 pm |
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Irymple (See Natalie Strickland) |
12:30 pm |
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Narrabri Myall Vale – Conference Room |
12:30 pm |
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Perth Floreat B40-F1-R46-Rossiter Room |
09:30 am |
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Sandy Bay (Hobart) – River View Room |
12:30 pm |
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Toowoomba – Meeting Room |
11:30 pm |
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Townsville (see Liz Do) |
11:30 pm |
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Werribee (Melbourne) – Peacock Room |
12:30 pm |
Speaker
Dr Craig Wood, CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Activity Leader
Synopsis
Global bioeconomies are dependent upon the $100 billion nitrogen fertilizer industry. Numerous labs are working to engineer the naturally evolved bacterial nitrogenase directly into plants, a GM based approach built upon decades of basic research and recent advances in plant synthetic biology. In this seminar I will outline the fascinating biology of nitrogenase and highlight the breakthroughs made in the last 3 years for engineering this unique enzyme into plants.
About the speaker
Craig has a PhD as a soil microbiologist (Sydney University) before training at a Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology. This was followed with 17 years at CSIRO in epigenetics of vernalisation, lipid biochemistry, commercialisation of GM safflower and, currently, nitrogenase.
This is a public seminar.
Open-access to The CSIRO Discovery Theatre @ Black Mountain