Releasing natural variation in bread wheat by modulating meiotic crossovers
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Bristol
Department Name: Biological Sciences
Abstract
In bread wheat, important agronomical traits are distributed along chromosomes. Traditionally, plant breeders cross high yielding parental lines and then select for progeny in subsequent generations that carry desirable attributes whist removing undesirable traits. However, the process of 'gene-shuffling' (meiotic recombination) is non-random and skewed towards the ends of the chromosomes. Therefore, desirable traits are often transmitted as a block together with undesirable traits. This is analogous to dealing a deck of cards where a significant proportion of the cards are tethered by an elastic band. In this case a desirable hand cannot be achieved until the elastic band is severed and the cards are able to segregate freely. In this proposal we aim to understand why desirable and undesirable traits in bread wheat are often tethered together, so that we can break this bond, and release the full potential of available natural variation. Then, we aim to modulate this process so that the plant breeder can decide which traits can be 'dealt' together in the same variety. This unlocking of wheat's natural variation will lead to the production, via classical plant breeding, of superior varieties with favourable agronomic traits such as increased yield and improved nutrient acquisition.
To provide direct evidence that our research has application we will work with two of the UK's largest wheat breeders KWS and RAGT to target chromosomal regions, which are known to be transmitted as blocks. We will show that by using novel procedures, we can increase the amount of recombination in these blocks. Increasing the amount of recombination in any of these regions will enable breeders to generate new gene combinations which will lead to new varieties with, for instance, increased protein content or pathogen resistance. Further down the breeder's pipeline our research will directly translate to new varieties with superior characteristics that will help maintain farm incomes and improve sustainability of the UK arable and milling industries. In addition high yielding varieties will reduce dependence on imported grain and associated transport and environmental costs and improved pipelines for the generation of new UK varieties that will enhance reliability and competitiveness in overseas markets.
To provide direct evidence that our research has application we will work with two of the UK's largest wheat breeders KWS and RAGT to target chromosomal regions, which are known to be transmitted as blocks. We will show that by using novel procedures, we can increase the amount of recombination in these blocks. Increasing the amount of recombination in any of these regions will enable breeders to generate new gene combinations which will lead to new varieties with, for instance, increased protein content or pathogen resistance. Further down the breeder's pipeline our research will directly translate to new varieties with superior characteristics that will help maintain farm incomes and improve sustainability of the UK arable and milling industries. In addition high yielding varieties will reduce dependence on imported grain and associated transport and environmental costs and improved pipelines for the generation of new UK varieties that will enhance reliability and competitiveness in overseas markets.
Technical Summary
Meiotic recombination generates new alleles and new allelic combinations. Together with the ability of the wheat breeder to select desirable traits, the formation of new alleles and new allelic combinations determines the rate at which improved varieties are generated and they determine the extent of genetic gain. The products of recombination can be classified as being the result of crossovers (COs) or gene conversion. While both result in the formation of new alleles, CO's are essential for the formation of new allelic combinations. Unfortunately, in many species, COs are restricted in number (in wheat there are 1-3 per chromosome pair) and they are skewed in distribution to regions near the ends of chromosomes. As a result an estimated 30-50% of genes reside in recombination 'cold' regions. This creates the problem of linkage-drag in the cold centromere-proximal and interstitial regions where undesirable variation cannot be separated from useful traits. In effect, these regions become inaccessible to researchers and breeders alike. Thus, it is essential that we develop methods to manipulate the frequency and distribution of COs in species such as bread wheat and therefore aid the breeders in the generation of novel allelic combinations.
The aim of our five year work programme is to build upon our recent studies, and identify and modify the factors controlling CO frequency and distribution during meiosis via a range of complementary genetic and cytogenetic approaches. This knowledge will be used to manipulate CO formation in wheat, using synthetic approaches and targeting recombination using both a transgenic and non-transgenic approach.
Development of a set of tools and procedures which can be employed to manipulate both the rate and location of COs would revolutionise wheat breeding and they would lead to the rapid developments of a range of elite lines derived from novel germplasm.
The aim of our five year work programme is to build upon our recent studies, and identify and modify the factors controlling CO frequency and distribution during meiosis via a range of complementary genetic and cytogenetic approaches. This knowledge will be used to manipulate CO formation in wheat, using synthetic approaches and targeting recombination using both a transgenic and non-transgenic approach.
Development of a set of tools and procedures which can be employed to manipulate both the rate and location of COs would revolutionise wheat breeding and they would lead to the rapid developments of a range of elite lines derived from novel germplasm.
Planned Impact
Recombination is important to the UK wheat harvest because recombination drives plant breeding. The generation, selection and characterisation of new allelic combinations are essential if wheat breeders are to develop new varieties with superior traits. Unfortunately, plant breeders have no control as to where recombination occurs and therefore regions with little or no recombination are effectively excluded from the breeding process. Genes in areas devoid of recombination generate few novel allele combinations and therefore have a propensity to become fixed within breeding populations. Breaking such linkage blocks is a significant target for wheat breeders, and would unlock a wealth of untapped genetic variation. Thus, research that leads to such 'breakage' will have a dramatic economic impact on the breeding industry, farmers and society, who consume the wheat crop.
Social impact over the timescale of the project will be achieved by dissemination of the results through peer reviewed journal publication as well as oral and poster presentations at national and international scientific conferences. Information generated by the program will be made available via CerealsDB, which has recently been funded by the BBSRC until at least 2018. The importance of the project will be highlighted during university open days as well as outreach collaborations such as the NIAB Innovation Farm. The economic impact over the timescale of the project will include benefits to the suppliers of scientific materials in the UK. The main benefits to the UK economy will come at the latter stages of the project and when outputs are translated into novel elite varieties.
In the BBSRC 5-year wheat research strategy point 37 describes the 'need for succession planning and new blood', as there is a risk that as senior wheat researchers approach retirement age there are few obvious successors to cover the broad spectrum of areas encompassing wheat research. A sustainable plan for maintaining and augmenting wheat research capability is required to ensure a continued stream of innovation in the sector and supply of key skills to industry. Our project will take advantage of 1. The molecular and genetic experience in wheat from the PI Prof Edwards and co-investigator Dr Uauy and 2. The molecular and cytogenetic skills of co-investigator's Prof Franklin and Dr's Higgins, Henderson and Sanchez-Moran, to train the next generation of wheat geneticists/molecular cytogeneticists, at the post-graduate and post-doctoral level, in a range of skills and knowledge from the model plant Arabidopsis to wheat and vice versa.
Who will benefit from the increased skills and capacity? 1. Farmers, plant breeders, millers/bakers: Establishing procedures to generate new combinations for key genomic regions conferring, for instance, drought or insect resistance will enable wheat breeders to generate and select improved lines from elite UK germplasm. When translated to new varieties with superior characteristics this will help maintain farm incomes and improve sustainability of the UK arable and milling industries. In addition this will reduce dependence on imported grain and associated transport and environmental costs. Improved pipelines for the generation of new UK varieties will enhance reliability and competitiveness in overseas markets. 2. Scientists and plant breeders: Identification of biological processes linked to recombination will have a major impact on UK researchers who work with UK plant breeders to generate novel lines carrying a number of useful traits.
Social impact over the timescale of the project will be achieved by dissemination of the results through peer reviewed journal publication as well as oral and poster presentations at national and international scientific conferences. Information generated by the program will be made available via CerealsDB, which has recently been funded by the BBSRC until at least 2018. The importance of the project will be highlighted during university open days as well as outreach collaborations such as the NIAB Innovation Farm. The economic impact over the timescale of the project will include benefits to the suppliers of scientific materials in the UK. The main benefits to the UK economy will come at the latter stages of the project and when outputs are translated into novel elite varieties.
In the BBSRC 5-year wheat research strategy point 37 describes the 'need for succession planning and new blood', as there is a risk that as senior wheat researchers approach retirement age there are few obvious successors to cover the broad spectrum of areas encompassing wheat research. A sustainable plan for maintaining and augmenting wheat research capability is required to ensure a continued stream of innovation in the sector and supply of key skills to industry. Our project will take advantage of 1. The molecular and genetic experience in wheat from the PI Prof Edwards and co-investigator Dr Uauy and 2. The molecular and cytogenetic skills of co-investigator's Prof Franklin and Dr's Higgins, Henderson and Sanchez-Moran, to train the next generation of wheat geneticists/molecular cytogeneticists, at the post-graduate and post-doctoral level, in a range of skills and knowledge from the model plant Arabidopsis to wheat and vice versa.
Who will benefit from the increased skills and capacity? 1. Farmers, plant breeders, millers/bakers: Establishing procedures to generate new combinations for key genomic regions conferring, for instance, drought or insect resistance will enable wheat breeders to generate and select improved lines from elite UK germplasm. When translated to new varieties with superior characteristics this will help maintain farm incomes and improve sustainability of the UK arable and milling industries. In addition this will reduce dependence on imported grain and associated transport and environmental costs. Improved pipelines for the generation of new UK varieties will enhance reliability and competitiveness in overseas markets. 2. Scientists and plant breeders: Identification of biological processes linked to recombination will have a major impact on UK researchers who work with UK plant breeders to generate novel lines carrying a number of useful traits.
Publications
Adamski N
(2018)
A roadmap for gene functional characterisation in wheat
Adamski NM
(2020)
A roadmap for gene functional characterisation in crops with large genomes: Lessons from polyploid wheat.
in eLife
Alabdullah AK
(2019)
A Co-Expression Network in Hexaploid Wheat Reveals Mostly Balanced Expression and Lack of Significant Gene Loss of Homeologous Meiotic Genes Upon Polyploidization.
in Frontiers in plant science
Allen A
(2016)
Characterization of a Wheat Breeders' Array suitable for high-throughput SNP genotyping of global accessions of hexaploid bread wheat ( Triticum aestivum )
in Plant Biotechnology Journal
Blackwell AR
(2020)
MSH2 shapes the meiotic crossover landscape in relation to interhomolog polymorphism in Arabidopsis.
in The EMBO journal
Blackwell AR
(2020)
MSH2 shapes the meiotic crossover landscape in relation to interhomolog polymorphism in Arabidopsis.
in The EMBO journal
Burridge AJ
(2018)
Conversion of array-based single nucleotide polymorphic markers for use in targeted genotyping by sequencing in hexaploid wheat (Triticum aestivum).
in Plant biotechnology journal
Burridge AJ
(2017)
High-Density SNP Genotyping Array for Hexaploid Wheat and Its Relatives.
in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Choi K
(2016)
Regulation of MicroRNA-Mediated Developmental Changes by the SWR1 Chromatin Remodeling Complex.
in Plant physiology
Description | In wheat, the exchange of genetic material (recombination) during meiosis is restricted to 1-3 per chromosome and the events are skewed in distribution to regions near the ends of the chromosomes. As a result an estimated 30-50% of genes reside in recombination 'cold' regions. This creates the problem of linkage-drag in the cold centromere-proximal and interstitial regions where undesirable variation cannot be separated from useful traits. In effect, these regions become inaccessible to breeders. Thus, it is desirable to manipulate the frequency and distribution of recombination in bread wheat to generate novel allelic combinations. Via the strategic lola, we have identified and modified several of the factors controlling recombination frequency and distribution during bread wheat meiosis via complementary genetic and cytogenetic approaches. The knowledge gained has already been published in several high impact journals and is currently being used, in collaboration with industry, in a Follow-on-Fund program to manipulate recombination using a synthetic approaches to targeting recombination, using for instance a modified gene editing approach. We believe that by working with the wheat breeders we should, with a few years, be able to target recombination to specific regions of the genome and hence unlock the full potential for yield gains in the UKs most important crop. |
Exploitation Route | While our work on studying and manipulating wheat recombination is ongoing, overall, our findings to date have significant relevance for wheat improvement through the deployment of genetic or epigenetic manipulations aimed at increasing crossover rates in recombination-suppressed chromo some compartments. For instance our work points to the facultative heterochromatic marker H3K27me3 as a potential target for increasing crossovers. This together with the deployment of various mutants such as fancm, msh4/5 and spo11-1, together with chromatin modifications could be combined with trans-acting loci that direct crossovers to various, currently recombination-cold spot regions, which have been mapped in wheat. |
Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology |
Description | Meiotic recombination generates genetic variation and provides physical links between homologous chromosomes (crossovers) essential for accurate segregation. In wheat we have shown that the distribution of crossovers, cytologically evident as chiasmata, is biased toward the distal regions of chromosomes. This creates a bottleneck for breeders in the development of varieties with improved agronomic traits, as genes situated in the interstitial and centromere proximal regions of chromosomes rarely recombine. As a basis for our early investigations, we carried out a detailed analysis of meiotic progression in hexaploid wheat (Triticum aestivum) using immunolocalization of chromosome axis, synaptonemal complex and recombination proteins. 5-Bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU) labelling was used to determine the chronology of key events in relation to DNA replication. Axis morphogenesis, synapsis and recombination initiation were found to be spatio-temporally coordinated, beginning in the gene-dense distal chromosomal regions, and later occurring in the interstitial/proximal regions. Moreover, we have found that meiotic progression in the distal regions was coordinated with the conserved chromatin cycles that are a feature of meiosis. This mirroring of the chiasma bias was also evident in the distribution of the gene-associated histone marks, H3K4me3 and H3K27me3; the repeat-associated mark, H3K27me1; and H3K9me3. Within the slola this study provided a cytogenetic framework for functional studies and ongoing initiatives to manipulate recombination in the wheat genome. In connection with the above we went on to identify a number of genes which evidence suggested might be useful in the manipulation of recombination in wheat. However, it should be noted that our research also indicated that the details of meiosis were significantly different in polyploid wheat compared to model species such as Arabidopsis and yeast. For once such gene, FANCM we have shown that wheat fancm mutants exhibited a reduction in fertility (36% in tetraploid and 15% in hexaploid wheat), due to loss of the obligate chiasma. This was consistent with a previous study utilising FANCM-VIGS on tetraploid wheat F1 hybrids that showed a significant reduction in fertility, but no differences in recombination on chromosome 1A53. The immunohistochemistry, cytological and molecular marker analysis revealed that loss of class I COs was offset by an increase of class II COs in the tetraploid, thus resulting in no net change. However, fewer HEI10 foci were reduced in the hexaploid wheat fancm mutants, compared to the tetraploid, leading to an overall increase of COs by 31%. Based on an increase of class II chiasmata detected in the tetraploid, it is likely that the increase in COs in the hexaploid arose via the class II CO pathway. The molecular marker data revealed that COs increased in the majority of intervals tested, thus providing an opportunity to modulate recombination in wheat breeding programs. Our data also revealed an association between the difference in wild type and fancm COs with DNA methylation, H3K27me1 and H3K27ac, suggesting that the chromatin environment influences this process and may provide a suitable target to modulate the position of additional COs. In addition, we have shown that allotetraploid (AABB) durum wheat (Triticum turgidum ssp. durum) utilizes two pathways of meiotic recombination. The class I pathway requires MSH4 and MSH5 (MutSg) to maintain the obligate CO/chiasma and accounts for ;85% of meiotic COs, whereas the residual ;15% are consistent with the class II CO pathway. Class I and class II chiasmata are skewed toward the chromosome ends, but class II chiasmata are significantly more distal than class I chiasmata. Chiasma distribution does not reflect the abundance of double-strand breaks, detected by proxy as RAD51 foci at leptotene, but only; 2.3% of these sites mature into chiasmata. MutSg maintains the obligate chiasma despite a 5.4-kb deletion in MSH5B rendering it non-functional, which occurred early in the evolution of tetraploid wheat and was then domesticated into hexaploid (AABBDD) common wheat (Triticum aestivum), as well as an 8-kb deletion in MSH4D in hexaploid wheat, predicted to create a non-functional pseudogene. Stepwise loss of MSH5B and MSH4D following hybridization and whole-genome duplication may have occurred due to gene redundancy (as functional copies of MSH5A, MSH4A, and MSH4B are still present in the tetraploid and MSH5A, MSH5D, MSH4A, and MSH4B are present in the hexaploid) or as an adaptation to modulate recombination in allopolyploid wheat. Finally, to understand the role that SPO11-1 plays in double strand break formation and as a prelude to its manipulation, we have used CRISPR/Cas9 to generate hexaploid wheat plants carrying edits in all three wheat SPO11-1 homoeologous genes. Characterisation of progeny derived from these lines shows that, while plants deficient in all six SPO11-1 gene copies are sterile, lines carrying just a single copy of any one of the three homoeologous are phenotypically indistinguishable from unedited plants both in terms of their growth and fertility. However, surprisingly, cytogenetic analysis of the edited plants suggests differences in the ability of the individual homoeologous to generate double strand breaks. In addition, we further show that direct transformation of sterile wheat plants, carrying six edited copies of TaSPO11-1, with an 8.3 kb fragment carrying the entire B-genome SPO11-1 gene, restores SPO11-1 activity and fertility. While our work on studying and manipulating wheat recombination is ongoing, overall, our findings to date have significant relevance for wheat improvement through the deployment of genetic or epigenetic manipulations aimed at increasing crossover rates in recombination-suppressed chromosome compartments. Our work also points to the facultative heterochromatic mark H3K27me3 as a potential target for increasing crossovers. Chromatin modifications could be combined with trans-acting loci that direct crossovers to interstitial regions, which have recently been mapped in wheat. |
First Year Of Impact | 2021 |
Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Environment,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology |
Impact Types | Societal Economic Policy & public services |
Description | Bioinformatics Training Workshop pre-Monogram |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Bioinformatics Traning Workshop pre-Monogram |
Description | Problems caused by introgessions |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Wheat breeding companies were made aware about the effect that introgressions have on recombination and why this may lead to difficulties in the future, this has caused some companies to re-examine their breeding strategies |
Description | Visit by Adam Stains, Matt Freeman and Harriet Trewin, BBSRC: Discussion on latest developments in crop breeding techniques |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Visit by Green Party Norfolk County Councillors |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Visit from Government Office of Science (Nancy Bailey, Neil Waby, Rebecca Nohl)- Discussion on CRISPR gene editing |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Visit of Norman Lamb MP |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | A pipeline for efficient recombination in wheat |
Amount | £200,364 (GBP) |
Funding ID | BB/W003317/1 |
Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2021 |
End | 03/2023 |
Description | BBSRC Flexible Talent Mobility Award (FTMA) |
Amount | £25,000 (GGP) |
Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 07/2019 |
End | 12/2019 |
Description | International workshops |
Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2019 |
End | 08/2019 |
Title | Breeders tool kit meeting |
Description | Novel wheat lines and novel wheat molecular markers to be transferred to the commercial sector |
Type Of Material | Biological samples |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | Novel materials and markers to be supplied to the wheat breeding community |
Title | New markers and new genotyping platform for wheat breeding |
Description | New Axiom markers for use in wheat breeding |
Type Of Material | Technology assay or reagent |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | New markers and new GbyS genotyping platform for screening and genotyping wheat |
Title | Use of Virus Induced Gene Silencing (VIGS) to down-regulate meiosis genes |
Description | In collaboration with Dr Kostya Kanyuka (Rothamsted Research) we have applied the VIGS approach to transiently down-regulate meiosis genes in wheat. This provides a rapid means of testing the meiotic phenotype by altering expression of particular genes of interest. This is can be achieved in less than a month, compared to CRISPR/Cas and TILLING that takes 6-12 months. |
Type Of Material | Biological samples |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | Other research groups are now considering adopting our VIGS strategy. |
Title | CerealsDB |
Description | The CerealsDB web-site was created by members of the Functional Genomics Group at the University of Bristol. The site provides a range of facilities for the study of the wheat genome. The site has been designed with breeders in mind, and we hope that is will be easy and straightforward to use. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | There have been over 1,528,817 unique visits to the websites and our various datasets have been downloaded 48,295 times (35K Wheat breeders Array: 45,445 downloads and 820K High Density Wheat Array; 2,850 downloads). The trend of increased numbers of researchers visiting our web site shows no sign of slowing down; running as it is at greater than 50,000 unique visits per month. |
URL | http://www.cerealsdb.uk.net/ |
Title | Introgression plotter added to Cerealsdb |
Description | Software to allow users to screen wheat germplasm for potential introgressions from wheat relative |
Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | At the request of the wheat breeding companies we have made this tool available via Cerealsdb so that breeders can check on the presence of possible introgressed regions in the bread wheat genome |
Title | QTL database |
Description | Upload of QTL database to Cerealsdb |
Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Breeders and academics are now able to download/examine various QTL-based datasets |
Title | Upgrade to cerealsdb (cerealsdb3) |
Description | We have carried out a significant upgrade of cerealsdb to include new analytical tools and a much larger data set |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Increased level of data downloads and use of tools to detect introgressions in wheat |
URL | http://www.cerealsdb.uk.net/cerealgenomics/CerealsDB/indexNEW.php |
Description | Collaboartion with Syngenta to exchnage knowledge on trasformation and double haploid production |
Organisation | Syngenta International AG |
Department | Syngenta Ltd (Bracknell) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | exchange of personal to improve our technology in double haploid production |
Collaborator Contribution | Spent time at Syngenta providing input into transformation technolgy |
Impact | Better transformation and double haploid technology available to Bristol |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | KWS |
Organisation | KWS UK |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Genetics and genomics |
Collaborator Contribution | Breeder know how and germplasm |
Impact | joint projects |
Start Year | 2009 |
Description | Leicester collaboration with Earlham Institute. James Higgins and Anthony Hall (Earlham Institute) have collaborated through this grant and have recently published a paper on recombination in wheat in Genome Biology (see publication list) |
Organisation | Earlham Institute |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | The Leicester research team provided a cytological analysis to determine the number of recombination initiation sites in wheat. |
Collaborator Contribution | The Earlham institute provided QTL analysis to identify RECQ7 as a gene influencing gene conversion and crossover formation in wheat. |
Impact | BB/T011963/1 TRDF grant |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | RAGT |
Organisation | RAGT Seeds |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Genetics and genomics |
Collaborator Contribution | Wheat germplasm and know how |
Impact | Shared projects |
Start Year | 2009 |
Title | METHODS TO INCREASE MEIOTIC CROSSOVER FREQUENCY IN PLANTS |
Description | The invention relates to methods and agents for increasing the frequency of crossover events during meiosis in plant cells. For this purpose, the method comprises the step of increasing the activity and/or levels of an HEI10 protein in the plant cell. |
IP Reference | WO2018104724 |
Protection | Patent application published |
Year Protection Granted | 2018 |
Licensed | Commercial In Confidence |
Impact | We recently published a follow-up publication combining HEI10 with recq4a recq4b mutations to further additively increase crossovers (Serra et al., 2018 PNAS). |
Description | A-Level Outreach workshop 'Meiosis and the Generation of Variation' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | An outreach workshop was designed for Year 12/13 A-Level students to communicate some of the science involved in the project and it's potential impact. The workshop entitled 'Meiosis and the Generation of Variation' consisted of short talks, given by the project partners, and lots of experimental work for the students. This was offered to schools on the University's widening participation list. The workshops were attended by 30 students (plus teachers) and repeated the following day for an extra cohort of students. Following each workshop we gained feedback from students and staff. From this 94% of the students said that their knowledge of meiosis had increased and 88% understood that increasing the genetic variation of crop plants was important for food security. Comments from students/teachers: • 'The students really enjoyed it and were amazed by the complexities of the subject' (Student, 2018). • 'I enjoyed learning about current research and CRISPR-Cas 9 - that was really interesting' (Student, 2018). • 'We would be keen for this again next year or anything similar you plan as it really is a great way to enrich the students and really stretch & challenge them' (Teacher, 2018). The following link is to a blog written by one of the schools attending the 2019 workshop in Cambridge: https://www.longroad.ac.uk/noticeboard/modifying-dna-with-cambridge-university/ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
URL | https://biologicalsciences.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2018/05/31/plant-science-outreach-meiosis-and-the-gen... |
Description | Academic visitor from the University of Salamanca 3/9/2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Academic visit from Javier Bobo Pinilla of the University of Salamanca. Visit was for training, data sharing and discussion of future collaboration opportunities |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Bristol Plant Science Workshop, 2018-10-17 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Amanda Burridge attended the Bristol Plant Science Workshop and presented 'Using Ancient Grains to Improve Modern Bread Wheat' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | British Meiosis Meeting Aberyswyth |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | British meiosis meeting in Aberystwyth |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/ibers/news/events/britishmeiosismeeting/ |
Description | CIMMYT visit to IWYP material Field Trials |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Amanda Burridge visited the Obregon CIMMYT site, specifically field sites used for IWYP projects. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Cereals 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Indian delegates training at the University of Bristol were taken to 'Cereals 2017' in Boothby Graffoe, Lincolnshire to meet other researchers, farmers, breeders etc |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Cereals Event 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Cereals Event talk on plant breeding technologies |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Cibus 2018, Salone internazionale dell'alimentazione |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Cibus 2018, Salone internazionale dell'alimentazione |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Co-Higgins is a member on the Research Oversight Committee for the Canadian Triticum Applied Genomics grant |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | For the large CTAG2 Canadian grant, advice is given about past and future experiments. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016,2017,2018 |
URL | https://www.genomecanada.ca/en/canadian-triticum-applied-genomics-ctag2 |
Description | Conference Madrid |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | ITN meeting in El Escorial, Madrid June 2019 invited external speakers from academic and industry (plant breeders) talks about where meiosis recombination research is going in the future. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://meicom-itn.com/meetings |
Description | Crop Genetics workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | A workshop on nitrogen use efficiency and wheat genetics was held in New Delhi from 25th Feb-1st March 2019 for 20 Indian undergraduate and postgraduate students. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Discussion on gene editing and regulations with BSPB, Royal Society, UKPSF, breeders |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing and regulations with BSPB, Royal Society, UKPSF, breeders |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Discussion on gene editing with NFU East Anglia (full membership) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing with NFU East Anglia complete membership |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Discussion on gene editing with NFU East Anglia Crop Board |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing with NFU East Anglia Crop Board |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Discussion on gene editing with NFU East Midlands |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing with NFU East Midlands |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Discussion on gene editing with NFU National Crops Board |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing with NFU National Crops Board |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Discussion on gene editing with NFU National Regional Crops Board |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing with NFU National Regional Crops Board |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Discussion on gene editing with NFU South West |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing with NFU South West |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Discussion on gene editing with NFU West Midlands |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing with NFU West Midlands |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Engagement with industry |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Discussion with breeder regarding marker development for tracking introgressions |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Engagement with industry |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Germplasm exchange for technical development |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Engagement with industry |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Transfer of markers to technology provider to aid the development of a new genotyping platform |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Engagement with industry |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Meeting with technology provider regarding a new genotyping platform and its application |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Engagement with industry |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Discussion with technology provider regarding optimisation of new technology for wheat |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Engagement with industry |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Meeting with service providers for genotyping technical development |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Exchange visit from Mohammed Shamshad, Punjab Agricultural University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Mohammed visited the University of Bristol in September and October 2018 where he was trained in lab-based genotyping and bioinformatics. He participated fully in group meetings and gave a seminar in the Life Sciences building describing his project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | From Seed to Pasta III, Bologna, Italy, 2018-09-19 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Amanda Burridge attended and met delegates from From Seed to Pasta III, a conference that focused on durum wheat breeding and processing. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | GARNet Gene Editing Workshop 26 -27 March 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Plant gene editing workshop held at Bristol University. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Garnet York 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Garnet York 2018 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Gave seminar at Warwich University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards with both academics and students. After my talk I set up a collaboration with a researcher at Warwick. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | German Plant Breeding Society |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | German Plant Breeding Society: keynote |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | INEW meeting attendance - London - 14/09/2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Amanda Burridge and Sacha Przewieslik-Allen attended the annual review meeting for INEW. Data handling was discussed with plans made for future activities with co-ordinated experimental design. Plans were discussed for future training opportunities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | INEW meeting, London Sept 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Alexandra Przewieslik-Allen attended an INEW review meeting, London September 2018 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | IWGSC Webinar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | IWGSC Webinar on new genomic tools in wheat |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | International Computation Biology Society: Africa meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | International Computation Biology Society: Africa meeting |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Invited Speaker for Society for Experimental Biology Annual Main Meeting Antwerp from June 29th - 2nd July 2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited speaker to SEB in Artwenp but now changed to an online meeting via Zoom. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.sebiology.org/events/event/seb-conference-2021 |
Description | Invited Talk at PAG XXV San Diego |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Research talk at the Cytogenetics workshop. Excellent questions and participation that showed a clear interest by different sectors (research and plant breeding companies). Title: "Control of meiotic recombination by the phosphorylation of ASY1" Authors: Heckman S, Martinez-Garcia M, West A, Osman K, Franklin C & Sanchez-Moran E. 2017 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.intlpag.org/ |
Description | Invited seminar (Indian Agricultural Research Institute) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited talk on "Developments in wheat genetics and genotyping" at Indian Agricultural Research Institute including a detailed Q&A and visits to a number of key departments to discuss future collaborative opportunities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | JIC Open day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | JIC Open Day |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Jersey Farming Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Jersey Farming Conference |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Jesus College, Cambridge conference on Food, Farming and Climate Change |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Jesus College, Cambridge conference on Food, Farming and Climate Change |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Keynote presentation at 2019 Monogram |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Keynote, plenary lecture at Monogram 2019 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Life Sciences Symposium 2018-02-02 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Amanda Burridge presented work by the Bristol Cereal Genomics team. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Meeting with South African deligation to discuss meiosis, genotyping and wheat breeding |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Meeting with British Council lead South African delegation to discuss wheat breeding and possible further links |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Meeting with international experts in wheat breeding and recombination |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Meeting of international experts in wheat breeding and recombination/marker development to consider future prospects |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Monogram 2018 - John Innes Centre |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Amanda Burridge presented 'Rapid and Affordable Genotyping by Sequencing Optimised for Hexaploid Wheat' at Monogram 2018 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | ONLINE workshop in meiosis |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Several meetings were carried out to engage during the lockdown with plant meiosis groups. Carried out via Zoom. With presentations and discussions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Open Visit Days University of Birmingham |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Taster Lecture for Open Visit Days at University of Birmingham: "Using genetics to feed the World". Talk about our research and its impact. Different days during 2019 and 2020 to interested future students and their families/friends accompanying them. Around 100-250 people per day. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
Description | Outreach activity for School visit to University of Birmingham |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Genetic research outreach. Activities to show DNA extraction, DNA gel electrophoresis, mutation concept and evolution of mutations in agricultural interest vegetables (Brassica oleracea). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Outreach exercise as part of Dynamic DNA at the University of Leicester called 'Gene Shuffling' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Our outreach work for BBSRC funded projects aims to explain the process of meiotic recombination in wheat. We presented posters and the chromosome model at Dynamic DNA at the University of Leicester 7-8th September, 2016. Over 400 local school children mixed and matched the wheat chromosome agronomical traits using the model, to see if they could generate a new super variety of wheat. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/genetics/people/dr-james-higgins-2/outreach |
Description | Oxford Farming Conference talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Oxford Farming Conference talk |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp0QJDivWgA |
Description | Participation in a Meet The Scientist event at Thinktank, Science Museum, Birmingham. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Part of MEICOM ITN network public engagement activity co-ordinated by the Sanchez-Moran/Franklin lab demonstrating fun science activities to families visiting Thinktank Science Museum during school half-term week. The emphasis was on the importance of plant meiosis research and issues of food security and climate change. Children and parents were able to participate in activities such as extraction of DNA from strawberries, loading a DNA gel, viewing plant chromosomes down a microscope and games involving learning about DNA sequencing and crop wild relatives & plant breeding. This generated plenty of questions and discussion and even quite young children were interested and able to engage in the activities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://twitter.com/biobosie/status/1098529947864444929 |
Description | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution - Outreach exercise as part of Dynamic DNA at the University of Leicester called 'Gene Shuffling' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | We explained the process of meiotic recombination so that advantageous crop traits could be brought together from different chromosomes, thus providing new, better varieties. The impact was to present the concept of 'gene shuffling', which is why people (except twins) are genetically different, so that the students could understand that human and plant meiotic recombination is very similar. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | PhD student visit to Bristol for training/exchange 3/9/18 - 15/10/18 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | One month training exchange visit by PhD student Mohammad Shamshad to Bristol University. Visit involved practical and bioinformatic training. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Plant Development and Evolution International Workshop 2018-02-22 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Amanda Burridge attended the Plant Development and Evolution International Workshop in Zurich with the presentation 'Improving Wheat Photosynthesis using Wild Relatives' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Plant and Animal Genomes (PAG) XXVI |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Amanda Burridge attended Plant and Animal Genomes (PAG) XXVI and presented 'CerealsDB Version 4.0: A Review of Tools and Data for Wheat Breeders and Research Scientists' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Poster EMBO Workshop in Meiosis in La Rochelle August 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | EMBO0 Workshop on Meiosis in La Rochelle Poster presentation by Postdoc Pablo Parra |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://colloque.inrae.fr/embo_conference_on_meiosis2019/ |
Description | Poster Presentation at Monogram Conference 2017 Bristol |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Poster Presentation at Monogram Conference Bristol 2017. Title: "Early meiotic progression in hexaploid bread wheat". Authors: Kim Osman, Eugenio Sanchez-Moran and F. Chris H. Franklin |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.monogram.ac.uk/MgNW2017.php |
Description | Poster Presentation at XXVI PAG San Diego |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Poster presentation at XXVI PAG conference in San Diego 2018. Title: "Spatio-temporal asymmetry of the meiotic pathway in hexaploid bread wheat". Authors: Kim Osman, Eugenio Sanchez-Moran and F. Chris H. Franklin |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.intlpag.org/ |
Description | Poster presentation at PAG XXV San Diego |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Poster presentation at PAG XXV conference in San Diego 2017. Title: "Topoisomerase II is required for programmed chromosome reorganization during meiosis and mitosis in plants". Authors: Marina Martínez García, Eugenio Sanchez-Moran, Chris Franklin. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.intlpag.org/ |
Description | Poster presentation: Recombination progression and chromatin architecture in hexaploid bread wheat. British Meiosis Meeting, 2018. University of Sussex, Brighton. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | British Meiosis Community annual meeting to discuss current research across a range of organisms. Emphasis is on postgraduate & postdoctoral career development & networking opportunities. A mix of talks and poster presentations with opportunities for discussion of direction of meiotic research. Includes talks from invited international speakers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.sussex.ac.uk/lifesci/nealelab/research/bmm2018 |
Description | Presentation at Monogram, Nottingham University, 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Kim Osman presented a poster at Monogram, the annual meeting of UK based cereal researchers which provides a link between science and commercial exploitation.The presentation provoked interest and discussion and provided an opportunity to disseminate research data which has potential implications for plant breeding |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Presentation at the British Meiosis Meeting, University of Aberystwyth, 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Kim Osman gave a talk at the BMM which is attended by members of the British and European meiosis community. The BMM gives early career researchers, including doctoral students, a chance to participate in a conference and present their research in a supportive and friendly environment. The talk generated interest and discussion and led to the exchange of useful information between different areas of meiosis research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Presentation at the EMBO Workshop on Meiosis, La Rochelle, France, 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Kim Osman presented a research poster at EMBO 2019. This workshop brings together highly regarded researchers from across the international meiosis community, providing an opportunity for productive discussion, feedback and research advice from experts in their fields. Presenting here generated a lot of interest and led to new contacts and potential future collaborations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Presentation at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference, San Diego 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | James Higgins presented this project in the IWGSC workshop, which is one of the largest gatherings of wheat geneticists. It sparked questions and discussion and potentially new collaborations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | http://www.wheatgenome.org/Meetings-and-Workshops/PAG-2020/Speaker-Profiles/James-Higgins |
Description | Presentation at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Kim Osman presented a talk in the Plant Cytogenetics workshop and a poster at PAG, a large international conference which attracts wheat researchers from all over the world. The presentations generated questions and discussion and led to new contacts and possible future collaborations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Presentation by hosted visitor as part of INEW project |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | As part of training exchange, Bristol University staff and PhD students were invited to a presentation by visitor Mohammad Shamshad of the Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Progress meeting at Lancaster 2017-11-22 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Amanda Burridge attended and presented data at an IWYP meeting attended by delegates from Nottingham University, Lancaster University and Essex University |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Public dialog and debate |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A pint of science debate on the price of bread and wheat breeding |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Radio broadcast Farming today |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Interview for farming today on wheat breeding and its importance; 14th July 2017 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Rank Prize acceptance speech |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Rank prize (2018) acceptance speech |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.rankprize.org/index.php/prizes/prizes-2018 |
Description | Rank Symposium on "The shape of wheat to come" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | The Rank Symposium of "The shape of wheat to come" was a four day event organised by Edwards and Higgins to promote the area of recombination to a wide range of international scientists ranging from PhD students to retired professors |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | SIGA Congress Angelo Bianchi |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Over 100 attendants and discussion of new tools for wheat genomic research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Seminar at the University of Birmingham "Manipulating meiotic recombination to produce the crops of the future" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | On line seminar via Zoom. Exposing our research in the lab. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Stakeholder Workshop: Social Responsibility and Wheat Research 13/9/18 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Stakeholders talked about their own interests (and/or those of their community) in relation to the many uses of wheat. The event also considered stakeholder responses as the basis for a report on social responsibility and wheat research targeted at policy audiences |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | THINK TANK MUSEUM BIRMINGHAM - MEET THE SCIENTIST EVENT 21st February 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The event involved the preparation of different activities (7) for the day. The whole lab participated and different colleagues from different labs in Europe came to support us. The event was organised at the Think Tank Museum at Birmingham and it run during the whole day. We prepared posters, leaflets, practical activities and show different results to the general public. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | http://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/thinktank/whats-on |
Description | Talk at Plant and Animal Genome Conference, San Diego |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation by Dr Stuart Desjardins at the Plant and Animal Genome conference, San Diego to disseminate results to the scientific community for discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://pag.confex.com/pag/xxvi/meetingapp.cgi/Session/4843 |
Description | Talk at Wheat Genome Initiative Network meeting by Co-I Higgins |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Talk at the WIGN meeting to disseminate aims and purpose of grant to the wheat community. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Taste Lecture during Open Day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation of a lecture to future applicants and family/friends. Recorded on Feb 2020 and used as a video online since then. Presenting part of the reasons of our research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
Description | University of Birmingham Open Day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Showcase of the Plant Research carried out by our lab. Directed to the general public to outreach and explain what we do and its importance. Open days provide an opportunity to face big numbers of the general public, from future students to any member of their families. Including a huge age range from ~5-90 years old. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | University of Birmingham Open Day 14th October 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation of our Research using posters, activities and workshops showing microscopes and plants. Supported by other members of staff. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | University of Cambridge Science festival |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Laboratory members presented work on genetics to attendees for the Science festival. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018 |
Description | Velcourt Agronomist annual conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Velcourt Agronomist annual conference |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Visitors from the University of Florence 2-6 July 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Academic visit from Alberto Masoni and Massimo Gori of the University of Florence. Visit was for training, data sharing and discussion of future collaboration opportunities |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Wheats and Women International Conference, National Research Council, Rome, 2018-06-14 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Amanda Burridge attended and presented at the first Women in Wheat (Carlotta Award) conference in Rome. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | media interest (New University of Leicester study to improve crop plants) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Raised awareness of research that is current at the University of Leicester. Other researchers and students knew what research I was doing. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/press/press-releases/2015/august/new-university-of-leicester-study-to-i... |