Prof. GAO Caixia from the IGDB gives a lecture at IHB (Credit: IHB)

Prof. GAO Caixia from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) paid a visit to the Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on May 10, 2021. She gave a lecture with the title of “Development of precision genome editing technologies for improving crops” for IHB faculty and students.    

In her lecture, she reviewed the development of gene editing technology.  Based on her team’s latest findings in genome editing in wheat, rice and tomato, Gao introduced the CRISPR applications in crop genetic improvement, and shared their work in precision gene editing technologies such as base editing and prime editing in crops.    

Caixia Gao is Principal Investigator of the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB), Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prior to joining IGDB in 2009, she served as Research Scientist of DLF’s biotechnology group in Denmark, where she worked in plant genetic transformation and molecular biology. Her current research area mainly focuses on developing a highly efficient and robust CRISPR platform in plant cells to enable targeted genome editing and the application of the resultant methods in improving plants traits for high-quality, disease resistance and stress tolerance in crop species.