Crop Bioengineering Center
Upcoming Events
The CBC CRISPR Workshop Brings Researchers Together at Iowa State
Participants engaged in immersive laboratory and classroom training during the 2026 Plant CRISPR Workshop hosted by the Crop Bioengineering Center. Topics included CRISPR guide RNA design, Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, and plant single-cell transcriptomics.
CBC council member Dipali Sashital was a Fall 2025 Graduate College Commencement Ceremony Speaker.
Congratulations to CBC's Lulu Rodriguez and team who received the AAAE Distinguished Research Presentation honor
Congratulations to Ghanshyam Kandel, Shuyang Qu, Fally Masambuka-Kanchewa, Lulu Rodriguez, and Michael Martin — authors of a 2025 North Central Region AAAE Distinguished Research Presentation, "Tracing the Origins of Biotech Beliefs: Perspectives from Mothers' Life Experiences"
Agrobacterium tumefaciens magnified 15,000 times in an image captured earlier this year with a scanning electron microscope at Iowa State University's Roy J. Carver High Resolution Microscopy Facility. Ephraim Aliu/Iowa State University.
Kan Wang and Team Reveal How Chromosomes Shape Biotech Bacterium Performance
Iowa State University researchers, led by Kan Wang, discovered that the way chromosomes are organized in the biotech bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens affects its growth, stress tolerance, and ability to transfer genes to plants. Their findings could help scientists fine-tune bacterial strains for improved performance in plant biotechnology and crop engineering. KCRG article | ISU article
About Our Center
The ISU Crop Bioengineering Center (CBC) seeks to address the urgent, grand challenge to provide sufficient food, feed, biofuels and biorenewable chemicals for the world’s burgeoning population, through basic and applied research to enable the bioengineering of valuable traits in a variety of crops.
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