Biotechnologist editing crops for a changing climate | Dr Karen Massel

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="color: rgb(43,43,43);background-color: white;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">ILLUMINATA Ep. #14 Karen is our CRISPR-Cas9</span><br><span style="color: rgb(10,19,22);background-color: white;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Queen and her </span><span style="color: rgb(43,43,43);background-color: white;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">research is focused on the improvement of cereal crops using genomic and biotechnological tools, enhancing their qualities and performance for the food and feed industries.</span><span style="color: rgb(10,19,22);background-color: white;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> In a bold move from the cold Canada</span><br><span style="color: rgb(10,19,22);background-color: white;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">to sunny Australia, her passion for science and innovation has fuelled her</span><br><span style="color: rgb(10,19,22);background-color: white;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">career in academia where she is now undertaking a postdoctoral fellowship. </span>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="color: rgb(10,19,22);background-color: white;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Listen to this legend and get inspired! </span>&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align:start;"><a href="https://qaafi.uq.edu.au/profile/6037/karen-massel" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(43,43,43);background-color: rgb(242,242,242);font-size: 2.438rem;">Dr Karen Massel profile</span></a>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="https://qaafi.uq.edu.au/article/2021/02/hotter-drier-crispr-editing-climate-change" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(240,240,240);background-color: rgb(73,73,73);font-size: 2.438rem;">Hotter, drier, CRISPR: editing for climate change </span></a>&nbsp;</p>