[Botanygraduatestudents] REMINDER - CMDB/GGB/MCBL Seminar: Professor Keith Slotkin - [TODAY] Wednesday, 2/7/24, In person & Streamed via zoom, Genomics Auditorium 1102A

[Caroline Benitez]

**REMINDER – TODAY**


CMDB/GGB/MCBL Seminar Program

Winter 2024



Speaker:

Professor Keith Slotkin

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Division of Biological Sciences



| University of Missouri-Columbia |


"The Control of Transposable Elements in Plants"


"Transposable Elements are fragments of DNA that can move themselves from one place in a genome to another, creating mutations and potentially genome instability. To control transposable elements, eukaryotic cells target them with chromatin modifications and/or DNA methylation to repress their transcription, and this regulation can be heritable (epigenetic). The Slotkin lab’s long-term goal has been understand how plant cells first recognize transposable elements and trigger the cycle of chromatin modification and epigenetic silencing. We have used the transfer of foreign transposable elements from other plant species and fungi into the reference plant Arabidopsis to study the de novo initiation of epigenetic silencing, and through this process uncovered how to keep a foreign transposable element active in a plant genome. This control over transposable element activity is useful for genome engineering, as we can now control the activity, insertion site, cargo and timing of transposable elements in Arabidopsis and the major crop Soybean. Using transposable elements and a programmable nuclease such as Cas9 has provided us newfound control over transposable elements and the evolutionary processes they drive."


Wednesday, February 7th, 2024

 Time:  12:00 – 12:50 p.m.



Presented in person & Streamed via Zoom


Zoom Link: https://ucr.zoom.us/j/94383581111?pwd=MDdEMzBLQzNHM2xOMmdFaHNIR0F5Zz09<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ucr.zoom.us/j/94383581111?pwd%3DMDdEMzBLQzNHM2xOMmdFaHNIR0F5Zz09&sa=D&source=calendar&usd=2&usg=AOvVaw0qOLsaVSqSV5kMmpRBupvD>

Meeting ID: 943 8358 1111

Passcode: 130476


In-Person Streaming Location: Genomics Auditorium 1102A


UCR Faculty Host: Hailing Jin (hailingj at ucr.edu)
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