* No self-evaluation

* No peer-evaluation

* No response to peer evaluation

* No camera

* Absence

* No presentation

Participants:

1. Maryam Alshiha – MS./
2. Afnan Mohamed – AM.*/
3. Mayar Albdawi – MB./
4. Safeyah Alqabandi – SQ.*/
5. Ahmad Alfoudari – AA.*/
6. Zainab Mohammad – ZM./
7. Abdulwahab Aldousari – AD./

Seminar Topics: Biotechnology of Animal and plant products.

HA selected examples:

• Douglas V. Shaw & Kirk D. Larson (2008) Performance of early-generation and modern strawberry cultivars from the University of California breeding programme in growing systems simulating traditional and modern horticulture, The Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology, 83:5, 648-652
• Shaw et al. (2006). Genotypic Variation for Resistance to Phytophthora cactorum in a California Strawberry Breeding Population, Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science, 131(5), 687-690
• Edger et al. (2019). Origin and evolution of the octoploid strawberry genome. Nat Genet 51, 541–547 
• Castillejo et al. (2020). Allelic Variation of MYB10 Is the Major Force Controlling Natural Variation in Skin and Flesh Color in Strawberry (Fragaria spp.) Fruit. The Plant Cell,  32(12): 3723–3749

Your presentation should include:

1. Title, student name, course, presentation date-slide.
2. Paper front page and abstract-slide.
3. General info about the organism-slide(s).
4. General info about the problem/goal of the study-slide(s).
5. General description about the methods used-silde(s).
6. Result (each figure or table in a separate slide).
7. Discussion slide about the usefulness of the study.
8. A final slide about your ideas/suggestions/ethical issues for implementing such studies in Kuwait.

To Do:

1.  Search for a biotechnology research paper that is related to the seminar topic and send a pdf to your instructor for approval.
2. Make a powerpoint file named (YourName_501).
3. Send a copy of your presentation a day before your actual presentation.
4. Non-presenters should read the paper and prepare to engage in discussion.
5. If it is possible, we will repeat the process with a second publication.

Useful files:

1. Powerpoint presentation template ().
2. Self evaluation template ().
3. Peer evaluation template ().
4. Response of peer evaluation template ().

Topics:

Seminar 1 – 26/10/21: Course planning, scientific publications, finding good ones

– HA

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Seminar 2 – 02/11/21: How to read a scientific paper? – HA

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Seminar 3 – 09/11/21: Making a good presentation – HA

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Seminar 4 – 16/11/21: Development of a system for efficient callus production, somatic embryogenesis and gene editing using CRISPR/Cas9 in Safron (Crocus sativus L.) – MS (Plant production), Presentation: MaryamAlshiha_501

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Seminar 5 – 23/11/21: Generation of microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii expressing shrimp antiviral dsRNA without supplementation of antibiotics – AM (Animal production), Presentation: AfnanKhaled_510

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Seminar 6 – 30/11/21: Engineering canker-resistant plants through CRISPR/Cas9-targeted editing of the susceptibility gene CsLOB1promoter in citrus – MB (Plant production), Presentation: MayarAlbadawi_510

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Seminar 7 – 07/12/21: Production of artificial synthetic spidroin gene 4S-transgenic cloned sheep embryos using somatic cell nuclear transfer – SQ (Animal production), Presentation:

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Seminar 8 – 14/12/21: Targeted delivery of nanomaterials with chemical cargoes in plants enabled by a biorecognition motif – AA (Plant production), Presentation:

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Seminar 9 – 21/12/21: The application of bioflocs technology to protect brine shrimp (Artemia franciscana) from pathogenic Vibrio harveyi – ZM (Animal production), Presentation:

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Seminar 10 – 28/12/21: Production of bioplastic from potato peel waste and investigation of its biodegradability – AD (Plant production), Presentation:

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Seminar 11 – 04/01/22: In vitro characterization of goat skeletal muscle satellite cells – MS, MB (Animal production)

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Seminar 12 – 11/01/22: Coffea arabica L. Resistant to Coffee Berry Borer (Hypothenemus hampei) Mediated by Expression of the Bacillus thuringiensis Cry10Aa Protein – MA, SQ, ZM (Plant production)

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Seminar 13 – 18/01/22: Mass spider silk production through targeted gene replacement in Bombyx mori – AA, AD (Animal production)

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