Intro to Plant Tissue Culture: Micropropagation

In-person 2 part class:

Saturday, June 7 from 2-6 PM EDT

Sunday,June 8 from 2-6 PM EDT

Plant bioengineering, commercial agriculture, and conservation all rely heavily on plant tissue culture—a set of techniques used to grow genetic clones, undifferentiated cells, or hybrids all from just small amounts of plant tissue. Micropropagation, one of the most powerful applications of tissue culture, allows you to rapidly multiply, sometimes disease-free, plants that are rare, valuable, or difficult to propagate by conventional means.

In this class, you’ll learn about the four stages of micropropagation:

1. Initiation: Identifying and sterilizing plant material to place in sterile culture
2. Multiplication: Using specific plant growth regulators (PGRs) to promote cell division, shoot multiplication, and axillary bud proliferation
3. Rooting: Using specific PGRs to encourage root growth, cell enlargement, and adventitious bud formation.
4. Acclimatization: Removing a plant from its sterile environment and helping it adapt to real-world conditions

Day 1: Prepare Monstera deliciosa-specific multiplication media

Day 2: Sterilize Monstera nodes and place them in culture using a laminar flow hood and sterile technique

By the end of the class, you’ll understand how to source and replicate micropropagation protocols, and we’ll close with a group brainstorm on how emerging ML/AI and hardware capabilities could reshape the future of micropropagation.

Join the growing community of independent researchers using plant tissue culture to grow houseplants, cannabis, carnivorous plants, food crops, and more!

COVID-19 Safety Notice:

If you are feeling unwell, suspect that you have been exposed to COVID-19 or test positive, please do not attend and let us know ASAP (aW5mbyB8IGdlbnNwYWNlICEgb3Jn). If you cancel after our 7-day policy, we cannot refund your ticket, but we can exchange and offer credits toward future classes. If you have signed up for Biohacker Boot Camp, we will automatically transfer your registration to the next month’s dates unless you tell us otherwise.

Jasmine (Jas) Neal is an independent research scientist specializing in houseplant micropropagation. Her work explores how commercial opportunities in the ornamental plants industry can fund broader plant biology research. A passionate advocate for open science and community building, she shares her events, progress and experiments on her Substack, Jas and Olive. 

She also co-leads Engineered Matter Labs at Genspace, a group of independent researchers investigating the biology and morphology of spider silk. Previously, Jas was an ASAPbio fellow, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Arcadia Science and co-founded TUNE, where she led product and operations.

IG: @jasandolive 

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