Ph.D. Candidate
University of California Davis
Amundson is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the lab of Prof. Luca Comai at the University of California, Davis. Using potato as a model system, he studies the triggers and outcomes of genome instability in two contexts: first, uniparental genome elimination, a process by which sexual progeny inherit the chromosomes of only one parent, and second, prolonged clonal propagation. He uses a combination of genomic and cytogenetic tools to document the incidence and types of chromosomal changes that occur in these two contexts, with the goal of providing a framework for plant genome engineering.
Thursday, July 30, 2020
2:00 PM – 2:02 PM EDT