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PhD STUDENT

Yasmine Lam

Research interest

Using CRISPR/Cas9 to study key genes in cereal crops

PHONE NUMBER
+61 478 156 066
EMAIL ADDRESS
yasmine.lam@uq.net.au

My research project

  • Description
  • Objectives
  • Outcomes

Modifying plant architecture using CRISPR/Cas9 to develop designer ideotypes.

  • Optimize barley transformation to be applicable in more elite varieties
  • Identify and phenotype key flowering gene CRISPR/Cas9 mutants and determine the role in plant architecture in barley and sorghum

Flowering genes have been identified to influence key architectural traits that could benefit in various environmental scenarios in both sorghum and barley.

Career in numbers

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PUBLICATIONS
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AWARDS

About Yasmine Lam

Country of origin and languages

My origin: Canada
Languages I speak: English

Education
  • BSc, Saint Mary’s University, Canada
  • MBiotech, University of Queensland, Australia
Scholarships
  • Research Training Program Stipend
  • University of Queensland Research Training
Awards

2020 Australia-Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme Grant

Research advisors

Prof. Ian Godwin
Prof. Andrew Borrell
Assoc. Prof. Lee Hickey
Dr Karen Massel

I enjoy seeing how a single gene can allow a plant to have amazing plasticity so it can be well adapted to a number of different environments.
Yasmine Lam
PhD Student

Publications

Massel, K., Lam, Y., Wong, A. C. S., Hickey, L. T., Borrell, A. K., & Godwin, I. D. (2021). Hotter, drier, CRISPR: the latest edit on climate change. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. doi:10.1007/s00122-020-03764-0