Teaching
Teaching at the Uni Graz, Austria
Tony is currently developing the teaching portfolio for Graz. She wishes to transfer a couple of the data science, genetics & genomics, as well as chromosome-focused courses. As you can see, she is currently exploring the collection-based teaching resources at the Uni Graz. Surely, the courses will be very interesting, so stay tuned for next semester!
Check the teaching portal to find updates on my teaching in Graz.
Teaching at the TU Dresden, Germany
Lecture series "Crop plants, breeding & transgenics"
You wished for it and it will happen: Despite Tony's move, she will continue to offer one of your favorite MSc modules at TU Dresden. It covers:
What is a crop plant, what are typical traits, what are the most common crops across the world? What are examples for moderate and orphan crops?
Domestication, including the domestication syndrome, examples of domesticated plants and their traits, domestication genetics;
Interplay between biodiversity and conservation versus agriculture, breeding and the development of new crops; Vavilov’s contribution towards conservation and breeding;
Genetics basis, including Mendelian genetics, F1, F2, crossing over, linkage maps, molecular markers, genome sequencing, and application in breeding and selection;
Hybrid and polyploid breeding;
Mutation breeding, including physically, chemically, and genetically induced mutations;
Protoplast fusion;
Green Revolution and the impact of Norman Borlaug’s breeding programs across the world, intensification of agriculture, benefits and problems;
Genetically modified plants, including cis- and transgenics, horizontal transfer in nature, transformation techniques, examples (pest resistance, herbicide resistance, engineering of better properties), and regulations;
Gene editing, including gene editing technologies, examples in breeding and the regulations of gene-edited organisms.
Material & dates in Selma.