Gelvin Lab present at Agrobacterium meeting in Ghent, Belgium

09-28-2018

September 12-13, 2018: Prof. Stanton Gelvin, Research Scientist Dr. Lan-Ying Lee, and graduate student Rachelle Lapham attended the Agrobacterium 2018 conference at Ghent, Belgium. Prof. Gelvin presented a talk entitled “No known DNA repair or recombination pathway is required for Agrobacterium T-DNA integration” and a poster entitled “Rice and Arabidopsis DNA polymerase θ (polQ) mutants can integrate T-DNA”. Dr. Lee presented a talk and poster entitled “Directing VirE2 to the host nucleus abolishes its function in transformation”. Rachelle Lapham presented a talk and poster entitled “Role of the Agrobacterium virulence effector protein VirE2 in modulating plant gene expression”.