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

体外生物学学会（SIVB）将在其2022年和2023年年会上举办四场研讨会，旨在向与会者介绍植物组织培养和基因工程的主题。研讨会将针对研究人员，包括教师，学生，博士后，以及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行业人员。节目将包含真人和虚拟内容。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。许多人花了几十年的时间进行研究，并不断寻找机会向新出现的科学家群体分享和传播知识、良好做法和学习成果，特别是那些服务不足或少数群体社区的科学家，他们可能无法随时获得这一信息。这些研讨会作为一个完美的平台，旨在针对新的和年轻的教师和行业人员参与组织培养和基因工程/基因组编辑研究沿着与学生和社区学院教育工作者谁希望在课堂上介绍这些主题。人们期望组织者将编制一套信息材料，以便长期传播这一重要知识。这些讲习班将影响到参与植物组织培养和遗传工程/基因组编辑研究活动的各种研究人员。它还将确保世纪在体外植物组织培养领域产生的专业知识将成功地传递给下一代新的研究人员，并帮助建立一支推进基因组工程和作物改良技术的劳动力队伍。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过利用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响进行评估，被认为值得支持审查标准。

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.