[Plantsci] FW: Bilateral Shennong Center Symposium coming up January 12-13. We need a head count!!!!!

[Donna-Rae Marquez]

On Behalf of Dr. Rod Wing:

Dear Plant Science Faculty, Staff, Students and Postdocs,

Below is an updated schedule for the upcoming Bilateral Shennong Center
Symposium to be held all day on the January 12th and the morning of the
13th. I need to know how many of you are planning to attend the meeting,
breakout sessions, and dinner (faculty only for dinner). Please let Carole
Turner (Carole at ag.arizona.edu) know if you will be attending any or all of
these activities before you leave for the holidays so we can plan the food
and coffee/tea breaks.

Thanks,

Rod

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Thursday, January 12, 2012

8:00-8:05 - Rod A. Wing, Welcome Address

8:05-8:20: Xianlong Zhang, Professor & Vice President of Huazhong
Agricultural University. Title: Expression profile analysis discovers
several functional genes involved in fiber cell initiation and elongation in
cotton

8:20-8:35: Mike Barker, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology &
Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona. Title: Genomics of
Hybridization and Polyploidy in Plants

8:35-8:50: Changyin Wu, Professor, Huazhong Agricultural University. Title:
Identification of fertility genes required for microgametogenesis in rice

8:50-9:05: Chieri Kubota, Professor, School of Plant Sciences, University of
Arizona. Title: Controlled Environment Agriculture as a Research Platform
Bridging Fundamental and Applied Plant Sciences

9:05-9:20: Jianbing Yan, Professor, Huazhong Agricultural University.
Title: The genetic architecture of vitamin E biosynthesis in maize grain

9:20-9:35: Xiangfeng Brian Wang, Assistant Professor, School of Plant
Sciences, University of Arizona. Title: Evaluating the correlation methods
in gene co-expression network analysis

9:35-9:50: Zhibiao Ye, Professor, Huazhong Agricultural University. Title:
Focused on tomato fruit ripening and genetic regulation, and nutritional
metabolites of fruit quality such as enhancing ascorbate acid

9:50-10:05: Eric Lyons, Assistant Professor, School of Plant Sciences,
University of Arizona. Title: TBA

10:05-10:30: Coffee/Tea Break

10:30-10:45: Lizhong Xiong, Professor, Huazhong Agricultural University.
Title: Molecular basis and genetic improvement of drought resistance in rice

10:45-11:00: Shelly McMahon, Assistant Professor, School of Plant Sciences,
University of Arizona. Title: Phylogenomic analysis: steps toward building
the tree of life

11:00-11:15: Meizhong Luo, Professor, Huazhong Agricultural University.
Title: Creation and utilization of crop genome resources

11:15-11:30: Mark Beilstein, Assistant Professor, School of Plant Sciences,
University of Arizona. Title: TBA

11:30-11:45: Jinling Meng, Professor, Huazhong Agricultural University.
Title: Genome reorganization in Brassica napus

11:45-12:00: Rebecca Mosher, Assistant Professor, School of Plant Sciences,
University of Arizona. Title: TBA

12:00-12:15: Yongshong Xing, Professor, Huazhong Agricultural University.
Title: Functional identification of genes encoding CCT domain in rice

12:15-12:30: Rod A. Wing, Professor, School of Plant Sciences, and
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona.
Title: Rice 2020 - Sequencing the collective genome of the Oryza

12:30-12:40: Shane Burgess, Dean, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences,
University of Arizona. Presentation of the "University of Arizona Associate,
Research Professor" title to Professor Qifa Zhang, Director, National Key
Laboratory for Genetic Crop Improvement

12:40-2:30 Lunch

2:30-3:50 Breakout Session I

4:00-5:30 Breakout Session II

5:30-7:00 Rest

7:00-10:00 Dinner (HZAU and UA Faculty)

Friday, January 13th, 2012

8:30-9:30: Breakout/Planning Discussions

9:30-11: Wrap up/Future Directions/Farewell

11am: Transfer to airport

12:50-1:10 Southwest flight 1396 to San Diego

 

 

 

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