We are pleased to announce our upcoming webinar featuring Chinh X. Luu and Barney A. Geddes from the Department of Plant Pathology, Microbiology and Biotechnology at North Dakota State University.
Biological nitrogen fixation in non-leguminous crops is a major goal for sustainable agriculture. However, identifying suitable microbial symbionts for synthetic cereal root nodule symbiosis remains a critical bottleneck.
In this webinar, the speakers will introduce their work on Sinorhizobium meliloti nodulation gene reporters and their integration with a droplet-based microfluidic platform for high-throughput screening. This scalable approach enables the identification of rhizobial and non-rhizobial strains with enhanced symbiotic potential, as well as mutants exhibiting elevated nod gene expression.
If you are interested, reserve your spot and read the full abstract here.
Speakers:
Dr. Barney Geddes
Assistant Professor (Richard and Linda Offerdahl Faculty Fellow)
Department of Plant Pathology, Microbiology and Biotechnology
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA
Dr. Chinh Luu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Plant Pathology, Microbiology and Biotechnology
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA
Date: 7 July, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM (EDT), 4:00 PM (GMT)