Genomes and Plant Health
Summer workshops for the Undergraduate Researchers and for High School Students.
*The images (left to right): A wild tomato Solanum habrochaites that harbors many disease resistance genes. (c) ksenia; A Nepenthes pitcher plant (c) boyan xu; A DNA sequencing device MinION that can operate from USB port in any computer (c) china lunde; A visual representation of computational approach to mine genomic information of plant pathogens and deduce their protein structures (c) kyungyong seong
Registration for summer 2022 Genomes and Plant Health will open by March 2022
We plan to hold "Genomes and Plant Health 2022" in a hybrid format: the course will be delivered in person at the University of California Berkeley and broadcasted live via Zoom.
We will deliver two courses as last year: one oriented at research undergraduates and another at high school students.
The course will be free to all participants.
Teaching and learning resources from "Genomes and Plant Health" 2021 course (virtual format)
Slides and tutorials
Decoding genomes: DNA extraction, sequencing technologies, genome databases
Lecture and tutorial (by Dr Ksenia Krasileva): Video clip, link to slides
DNA extraction lecture and demo (by China Lunde): Video clip, link to slides
Genome assembly, annotation, and the ins and outs of computational biology
Lecture and coding exercises (Google CoLab, by Pierre Joubert and Boyan Xu): link to slides and Google Colab
From genes to proteins: protein domain architectures and families, structures
Lecture (by Dr Daniil Prigozhin): link to slides
Exercises: link
Genome editing
Lecture and tutorial (by Dr Michael Gomez and Dr Ksenia Krasileva): link to slides
Good microbes, bad microbes: plant microbiomes
Lecture and coding exercise (Google CoLab, by Reena Debray): link to slides and Google Colab
Funding
Our workshops are supported by The National Science Foundation and the United States Department of Agriculture - National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
If you would like to provide additional support, please, contact us at genomesplanthealth@gmail.com or Prof Ksenia Krasileva directly at kseniak@berkeley.edu
Instructors
Prof Ksenia Krasileva
is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology as well as Innovative Genomics Institute and the Center for Computational Biology, UC Berkeley. She is an expert in plant genomes and genome databases, next generation sequencing technologies and protein family analyses. Ksenia will be present at all course sessions, she will lead the topic "Decoding genomes: DNA extraction, sequencing technologies, genome databases" and co-teach "From genes to proteins: protein domain architectures and families, structures" as well as "Genome editing" in both workshops. You can read more about her research on this website.
China Lunde Shaw is a Laboratory manager in the Krasileva Lab, UC Berkeley. She is an expert in genetics and genomics, including but not limited to DNA extraction workflows, DNA quality control for sequencing, Oxford Nanopore sequencing. China provides administrative support for the workshops and will co-teach "Decoding genomes: DNA extraction, sequencing technologies, genome databases". China is involved in many research projects described here: link
Pierre Joubert is a PhD candidate in Microbiology with Designated Emphasis in Genomics and Computational Biology in the Krasileva Lab, UC Berkeley. He is an expert in genomics and computational biology. Pierre will lead "Genome assembly, annotation, and the ins and outs of computational biology" topic for undergraduate workshop and co-teach "Good microbes, bad microbes: plant microbiomes". You can find more information about his research here: link
Boyan Xu
is a PhD Student in Mathematics with Designated Emphasis in Genomics and Computational Biology in the Krasileva Lab, UC Berkeley. He is an expert in computational biology, data science, and protein sequence analyses. Boyan will lead "Genome assembly, annotation, and the ins and outs of computational biology" topic for the high school workshop, illustrating how we can use computational biology to understand plant biodiversity. You can find more information about his research here: link
Dr Michael Gomez is a postdoctoral researcher in plant biology in the Staskawicz Lab, UC Berkeley and Innovative Genomics Institute. He is an expert in genome engineering from selective breeding to CRISPR, CRISPR strategies for virus-resistant plants, improving crops for plant health and human health. Michael will lead a section on "Genome editing". You can find more information about his research here: link
Reena Debray is a PhD student in Integrative Biology in the Kostkella lab, UC Berkeley. She is an expert in plant microbiomes, bacterial genomics and plant health. Reena will lead a section on "Good microbes, bad microbes: plant microbiomes". You can find more about her research here: link
Dr Daniil Prigozhin is a Staff Beam line Scientist at the Advanced Light Source at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley. He is an expert in genomics, protein sequence analyses, protein structure analyses. Daniil will lead the topic "From genes to proteins: protein domain architectures and families, structures". You can find more about his research here: link