KEARNEY – Plant breeding and genetics pro Tom Clemente is the featured speaker for this year’s Doug Lund DNA Working day at the College of Nebraska at Kearney.
His lecture, “Complementing plant breeding applications with the resources of biotechnology,” is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. April 29 in Copeland Corridor Room 142. The function is no cost and open up to the public.
Clemente is the Eugene W. Price tag Distinguished Professor of Biotechnology in the College of Nebraska-Lincoln Office of Agronomy and Horticulture and director of the Plant Transformation Core Investigate Facility. His system has recognized an agricultural biotechnology pipeline at UNL, enabling researchers to evaluate transgenic events from the bench to the subject. This infrastructure was instrumental for the duration of development of the dicamba tolerance engineering, at this time marketed as Roundup Prepared Xtend Crop Method.
Clemente’s laboratory is a state-of-the-art plant transformation facility that targets the introduction of genetic variation for novel input and output traits in the important commodity crops pertinent to the condition of Nebraska, like maize, sorghum, soybeans and wheat. He’s actively engaged in many transdisciplinary and multi-institutional team-dependent jobs, this sort of as coming up with genetic methods to shield yields from both equally biotic and abiotic stresses.
Hosted by the UNK Department of Biology, DNA Day was founded in 2013 in honor of Doug Lund, who taught genetics for 33 decades at Kearney Condition College/UNK and was instrumental in establishing immunology and molecular biology curriculum. He was identified for his superb educating ability and his university student-welcoming persona and outreach.
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