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年的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。研讨会的目标是利用植物组织培养和基因插入技术开发改良作物品种的研究人员，包括教师、学生、博士后和行业人员。节目将包括真人和虚拟内容。会议结束后，将向希望在课堂教学或实验室会议中用于研究和教育目的的感兴趣团体提供演讲和其他生成的材料。目前急需植物组织培养和转化方面的专家。许多人花了几十年的时间进行研究，并不断寻求机会，向新兴的科学家群体，特别是那些服务不足或少数群体社区的科学家，分享和传播知识、良好做法和经验教训，他们可能无法随时获得这些信息。这些研讨会是一个完美的平台，旨在针对从事组织培养和基因工程/基因组编辑研究的新、年轻教师和行业人员，以及希望在课堂上介绍这些主题的学生和社区大学教育工作者。人们期望组织者将编制一套信息材料，使这一重要知识能够长期传播。这些研讨会将影响到参与植物组织培养和基因工程/基因组编辑研究活动的不同研究人员群体。它还将确保20世纪在离体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，并有助于为推进基因组工程和作物改良技术创造一支劳动力队伍。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.