The full recording of “Gene Editing in In Vitro and In Vivo Systems: Tools, Delivery, and Applications” is now available on CAST’s YouTube channel.
The Society for In Vitro Biology (SIVB) and the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) hosted the free webinar on Oct. 20, 2026. Almost 700 people registered, and the live stream peaked at 320 viewers.
Aaron Hummel, senior vice president of R&D at Pairwise, presented “The Present and Future of Plant Breeding.” He discussed a new toolbox for genome editing in therapeutics and agriculture, novel crop traits developed through genome editing, and crop breeding’s move from prediction to design. He also described a future that combines crossing, gene editing and artificial intelligence.
Veerle De Schepper, head of R&D at Rainbow Crops, presented Trait Foundry, an AI-guided multiplex genome editing platform. She explained how AI identifies sets of 40 to 60 relevant genes and designs multiplex guide RNA libraries, and how explainable AI separates polygenic effects to predict the best combinations of edits. She also covered doubled haploid workflows that fix those combinations into breeding lines for field trials.
Deepika Chauhan of Pairwise, chair of the SIVB Membership Committee, moderated the audience Q&A.
Watch the recording:
