Texas A&M Genome Editing Symposium

Meet Our Officers Media Lead: Lance Nuique Learn more about Lance and this year’s Genome Editing Symposium: genome-editing-symposium-tamu.com

Introducing the Texas A&M Genome Editing Symposium Organizing Committee for 2026 Top row (left to right): Ari Aviles, Danyka Ramos‑Meléndez, Grace Hall, Lance Nuique Bottom row (left to right): Mridula Senthil, Hussain Alcassab, Valeria Duran Salas

BIG Congratulations to our 2022 poster winners: 1st place: Zhen Wang 2nd place: Yushu Qin 3rd place (TIE!): Rachel Rivero and Bal Maharjan And congratulations to all our poster presenters, you all did a great job!!

Successfully wrapped up the 5th 2022 edition of the Texas A&M Genome Editing Symposium. We are thankful to all our amazing speakers, travel scholars, sponsors and audience.

To all TAMU Undergrad and Grad students, come present your research at 2022 GES!! Register at: genome-editing-symposium-tamu.com

Announcing our final travel scholar,Tracy Hawk, PhD student at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Tracy will be presenting her research titled "Kinase-dead mutation reveals a soybean kinase that regulates alternative splicing is important for cyst nematode parasitism".

Announcing the 2022 Texas A&M GES Travel Scholars! First up is Ephraim Aliu, a PhD student at Iowa State. Ephraim will be presenting his research on "Highly Efficient CRISPR RNA-guided Integrase for Agrobacterium Genome Editing". Register today! lnkd.in/gyQdwuAY

Our final introduction for the 2022 GES Invited Speakers is Dr. Robert Jinkerson from the UC, Riverside! We are looking forward to hearing Dr. Jinkerson speak about his lab's work and interests regarding gene-editing and engineering in plants.

Next up for our 2022 GES Invited Speakers is Dr. Wusheng Liu from North Carolina State University! We are excited to have Dr. Liu speak about his lab's work and interests regarding non-GMO gene-editing in plants. Register at lnkd.in/gyQdwuAY!

Meet our 2022 GES Invited Speakers: Dr. Jun Wu from UT Southwestern Medical Center! We are excited to have Dr. Wu speak about his research involving culture systems for pluripotent stem cells and the formation of their blastoid derivatives! Register at lnkd.in/gyQdwuAY!

Meet our 2022 Genome Editing Symposium Invited Speakers: Dr. Guo-qing Song from Michigan State University! His research involving the development and utilization of new biotechnological tools for horticultural plant breeding as well as tips and tricks in CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing.

Travel Scholars!! Don't forget to send your application by the end of this month!!

Applications are open if you are a Grad Student from any U.S institution conducting research in genome editing, delivery method optimization, gene function analysis, crop improvement and other relevant science across the tree of life. Check the website for more info!

And our last but not least Committee member spotlight of the day: Sarah Singleton, our Volunteer Coordinator.

Howdy howdy! We are back at it yet again to introduce everyone to our wonderful Logistics Lead! Give a warm welcome to Amaka!

Time for another committee member spotlight. Meet our Research Coordinator Joe Romanowski!

GES 2022 Committee member spotlight: Meet our Research Coordinator Mason Clark.

GES committee member spotlight: our 2022 Social Media Lead- Barbara Rodrigues

Committee member spotlight: the 2022 GES Vice-President Khushboo Rastogi!