IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY | DEPARTMENT OF AGRONOMY | OFFICE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY | PLANT SCIENCES INSTITUTE

Visiting Scientists


Scientists from all over the world come to the Plant Transformation Facility to learn transformation techniques of maize and soybean as well as molecular analysis skills. Resources are limited for training scientists, but we do so as often as we are able. If you are interested in learning from us, please contact Kan Wang for further details.



Min-jeong Kang

Chungbuck National University
Crop Science

August 2016 ¨C March 2017



Tri Joko Santoso

Indonesian Center for Agricultural
Biotechnology and Genetic Resources
Research and Development

May 2015 - October 2015



Magali Grando

University of Passo Fundo
Passo Fundo, Brazil

February 2011 - February 2011



Huixia "Sylvia" Shou

Huixia@Zhejiang University
Hangzhou, China

July 2010 - October 2010



Hartinio Nahampun

Bandung Institute of Technology
Bandung, Indonesia

November 2009 - July 2010



Kaloyan Kostov

AgroBioInstitute
Bulgaria

October 2009 - November 2009



Liyan Yang

Shanxi University
Taiyuan, China

August 2009 - August 2010



Rabha Abdelwahd

National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA)
Rabat, Morocco

March 2008 - April 2008



Maria Mercedes Rivero

University of Buenos Aires,  School of Exact and Natural Sciences
Department of Physiology and Molecular and Cellular Biology
Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology
February 2008 - March 2008
Mentors: The Monocot Transformation Team



Ksenija Markovic

Serbia
March 2006 - July 2006
Mentors: Bronwyn Frame (maize); Diane Luth (soybean)
To learn the methodologies and efficiency of Agrobacterium-mediated maize and soybean transformation.



John Muoma

Kenya

February 2005 - July 2005

To learn maize Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, maize biolistic-mediated transformation, and molecular analysis of transgenic plants.



Xiaowei He

China
Zhejiang University
March 2005

To learn soybean Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and molecular analysis of transgenic plants.



Nevena Mitic

Serbia and Montenegro
Agricultural Research Institute "Serbia"
Fall 2004
Mentor: Bronwyn Frame (maize transformation)
To learn Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of cereal crops.



Shireen Assem

Egypt
Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute
Summer/Fall 2003
Mentor: Bronwyn Frame and Jen McMurray (maize transformation)
To clone her gene of interest into PTF's Agrobacterium vector pTF101.1 and use that construct to learn maize Agrobacterium-mediated transformation.



Philippe Herve

Belgium
Crop Design
Fall 2002
Mentor: Bronwyn Frame
To learn maize Agrobacterium-mediated transformation.



Depu Liu

China
Jilin Academy of Agricultural Science
July - November, 2001

To evalute the robustness of a tissue culture independent pollen-tube pathway transformation system for soybean.