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Empowering graduates with Genome Editing skills for Food Security & Environmental Sustainability by integrating research, policy & professional development.
McGill University
Joined August 2019
The 2025 GEFSES International Symposium is currently underway at the Punjab Agricultural University. @JaswinderMcGill
@McGill_VPRI
@NSERC_CRSNG
@CropLifeCanada
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🥣🧬 This breakthrough (first edit of oat DNA) could help oat farmers boost yields, reducing reliance on chemicals used to speed up harvests.⤵️ The study received #NSERCsupport. (@NSERC_CREATE Program on Genome Editing for Food Security and Environmental Sustainability, GEFSES).
Scientists edit oat DNA for the first time, paving the way for healthier, more climate-resilient crops @McGillMacCampus @mcgillu
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Congratulations to @JaswinderMcGill on being selected for the prestigious Mary E. Spencer award by the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists, in recognition of his outstanding research contributions & engagement in the plant biology community! https://t.co/7AJnOa2G7X
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I am so excited to share our report on the first-ever successful CRISPR/Cas9-based gene-editing in oats, now published in the Plant Biotechnology Journal. Kudos to the Singh Lab (@JaswinderMcGill). Honoured to have it as a part of my PhD research. Link: https://t.co/sJjZMdj8y8
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Daniel Getts and co-workers @MyeloidTx present CRISPR-Enabled Autonomous Transposable Element (CREATE), a #genome editing system that combines #CRISPR/Cas9 with a modified LINE-1 retrotransposon machinery, for #RNA-based #gene editing and delivery. https://t.co/wui96IciTM
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🧬 New-gen genome editors with potentially higher fidelity and capable of longer edits are here! Think prime editing but with DNA-dependent DNA polymerases instead of a RT. A comparison of recent tools from @ESontheimerLab & @BKleinstiver Lab. Thread 🧵:
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📣Are you interested in gene editing 🧬 work in plants 🌱? Dr. Singh's Lab(@JaswinderMcGill ) at McGill University has one Postdoctoral position open for application. See below for details 👇.
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Exciting times ahead for wheat farming! 🌾🔬Canada’s first #GeneEdited wheat trial is set to be conducted this year, and may find ways to make our favourite grain even more resilient. See how this project will flour-ish at:
topcropmanager.com
The first Canadian field trial is being conducted in 2024.
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Dr. Zhou, a GEFSES trainee at @JaswinderMcGill lab, has published his findings in the Journal of Plant Biotechnology, stating that oats can become more nutritious and increase their shelf life using genetic engineering techniques.@McGill_VPRI, @NSERC_CRSNG @CropLifeCanada
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Congratulations ! to Zhou for his first-author paper on metabolic engineering in oat @JaswinderMcGill Lab Plant Biotechnology Journal @McGillMacCampus @PlantMcGill @McGill_VPRI @OatNewsletter @USDA
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
The endeavour to elevate the nutritional value of oat (Avena sativa) by altering the oil composition and content positions it as an optimal crop for fostering human health and animal feed. However,...
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Delighted to try out the world’s first CRISPR-edited salad from Conscious Foods and @PairwisePL. Mustard greens were edited with Cpf1/Cas12a to reduce their spiciness while retaining their nutritional content (which is 2X better than romaine lettuce). 🙏 @zhangf for the invite
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Our lab as well as students in the class I teach this semester enjoyed tasting the first CRISPR-edited salad greens, in which the myrosinase gene that results in the pungency of raw mustard greens (Brassica juncea) has been disabled, yielding a nutrient-dense, tasty, and
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* The CARBON Newsletter is back with the latest news on CRISPR in agriculture * In this edition you can read about a new optimised prime editing system for tomatoes, wheat with 97.7% reductions in gluten and much more. It's all availble for you from CRISPR Medicine News' website
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A new chapter for genome editing: RNA-guided recombinase enzymes have been discovered that enable the programmable insertion, inversion or deletion of long DNA sequences
nature.com
Nature - Recombinase enzymes that recognize DNA sequences using a ‘bridge’ RNA.
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Research| @RIKEN_IMS team developed a gene-editing technique for marmosets, modeling Alzheimer’s disease, using TALEN to introduce heterozygous exon skipping mutations. #GeneEditing Link: 👇 https://t.co/OOuwMMHdzG
nature.com
Lab Animal - This study shows that using gene-editing technology in oocytes using Platinum TALEN is an effective method for producing genetically modified marmosets by exon skipping.
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🌾 In Europe's first-ever field trial of gene-edited wheat, scientists have successfully reduced a potential carcinogen in wheat crops by using the #GeneEditing tool, #CRISPR! Knead to know more? 🍞 Visit:
agupdate.com
Results from Europe’s first-ever field trial of a gene-edited variety of wheat have shown a significant reduction of the potential carcinogen acrylamide when the flour is baked. Researchers at...
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The 2024 GEFSES Summer Workshop was a great way to reconvene great minds with a common interest in CRISPR-Cas-assisted agricultural development and environmental sustainability. We appreciate all the participants (in-person and online) and those who organized this workshop!
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Upcoming Webinar! Dr. Jaswinder Singh will discuss some of the findings of the @gefses_create program. @McGill_VPRI @NSERC_CRSNG @CropLifeCanada
Join our Education Committee webinar! Dr. Jaswinder Singh from McGill University will discuss Accelerating Genetic Enhancement in Small Grain Cereals Through Technological Innovations. April 26, Friday 10-12 am EST. Here is the Zoom link: https://t.co/Xvz7aHn7h4
@NAPlantBreeders
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GEFSES student Mehtab Singh, #HexaploidSingh, gave an excellent presentation on “SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM.” @McGillMacCampus @PlantMcGill @JaswinderMcGill @NSERC_CRSNG @OatGrowers
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