As Dr Van Eenennaam stands on the eve of retirement, she reflects on her career as a scientist, starting as an agricultural science exchange student at UC Davis from Australia in the 80s (Link).
An article published by the Manitoba Cooperator contains an interview with Dr Alison Van Eenennaam about the potential to use gene editing in livestock for disease resistance and the potential effects on the industry from the creation of gene-edited pigs, resistant to the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus.
Alison Van Eenennaam was interviewed for an article in Nature Methods about different ways to introduce novel DNA into organisms and some of the pitfalls of the various methods. Article link here
In this interview, Alison Van Eenennaam describes how she built her career to encompass both science communication and research using genome-editing technologies in order to aid beef cattle production and animal welfare. Article link here.
Dr Van Eenennaam presented data complied from 195 peer-reviewed publications and gave an update on porcine reproductive and respiratory virus syndrome resistant pigs developed by Genus plc to the 100th Annual USDA Agricultural Outlook Forum. Article link here.
Dr Van Eeenennaam discusses the possibilities of the USDA regulating gene-edited animals instead of the current regulatory body, the FDA, which currently considers genome-edited animals to be novel 'drugs'.
You can find this article here plus links to parts 1-4 of this five part series.
Cosmo, the CRISPR genome-edited bull, designed to produce 75% male offspring, is featured in an article in this month's issue of the California Cattleman's magazine
