Visiting Scientists
Scientists from all over the world come to the Plant Transformation Facility to learn transformation techniques of maize and soybean as well as molecular analysis skills. Resources are limited for training scientists, but we do so as often as we are able. If you are interested in learning from us, please contact Kan Wang for further details.
Rabha Abdelwahd
National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA)
Rabat, Morocco
March 2008 - April 2008
Maria Mercedes Rivero
University of Buenos Aires, School of Exact and Natural Sciences
Department of Physiology and Molecular and Cellular Biology
Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology
February 2008 - March 2008
Mentors: The Monocot Transformation Team
Ksenija Markovic
Serbia
March 2006 - July 2006
Mentors: Bronwyn Frame (maize); Diane Luth (soybean)
To learn the methodologies and efficiency of Agrobacterium-mediated maize and soybean transformation.
John Muoma
Kenya
February 2005 - July 2005
To learn maize Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, maize biolistic-mediated transformation, and molecular analysis of transgenic plants.
Xiaowei He
China
Zhejiang University
March 2005
To learn soybean Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and molecular analysis of transgenic plants.
Nevena Mitic
Serbia and Montenegro
Agricultural Research Institute "Serbia"
Fall 2004
Mentor: Bronwyn Frame (maize transformation)
To learn Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of cereal crops.
Shireen Assem
Egypt
Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute
Summer/Fall 2003
Mentor: Bronwyn Frame and Jen McMurray (maize transformation)
To clone her gene of interest into PTF's Agrobacterium vector pTF101.1 and use that construct to learn maize Agrobacterium-mediated transformation.
Philippe Herve
Belgium
Crop Design
Fall 2002
Mentor: Bronwyn Frame
To learn maize Agrobacterium-mediated transformation.
Depu Liu
China
Jilin Academy of Agricultural Science
July - November, 2001
To evalute the robustness of a tissue culture independent pollen-tube pathway transformation system for soybean.
