Akira Endo
Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan
Biography
Akira Endo is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Plant Genome Engineering Research Unit, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO). He received his PhD from Tokyo Metropolitan University where he studied about regulatory mechanism of a plant hormone, abscisic acid biosynthesis under drought stress in Arabidopsis using biochemical and immunohistochemical techniques. At NARO, his research has focused on genome editing with CRISPR/Cas9 and CRISPR/Cpf1 systems, and he is currently working on the development of precise genome editing using Cpf1 to create crops with improved agronomical value and increased social acceptance
Abstract
Abstract : Genome editing in plants using small Cas9 and Cpf1