[Plantsci] FW: Invitation to the 2nd Bilateral Shennong Center Symposium between UA and Huazhong Agricultural University (January 12th and 13th, 2012)

[Donna-Rae Marquez]

On Behalf of Dr. Rod Wing:

October 21, 2011

Dear Plant Science and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Faculty,

About five years ago the Department of Plant Science set up a memorandum of
agreement (MOA) between the University of Arizona and Huazhong Agricultural
University (HZAU: http://www.hzau.edu.cn/en/home/), in Wuhan, China, to
establish the Shennong (the divine farmer) Center.  The purpose of the
center is to perform collaborative research and training between the two
intuitions in Agriculture, Plant Biology and Evolution. Our key collaborator
is Professor Qifa Zhang (Chinese Academy of Science, and USA National
Academy of Science member) who runs the National Center of Plant Gene
Research (http://www2.ncpgr.cn/).  Many of us have already established
active and productive collaborations with HZAU scientists.  In order to
continue our relationship, and establish new interactions between HZAU and
UA, we plan to hold a 1½ day Bilateral Symposium at UA on January 12th and
13th. Below is a tentative agenda.

Wednesday, January 11th

Arrival

 

Thursday, January 12th

8-10 am: 8 short talks + questions (Alternating between HZAU and UA
speakers)

10-10:30: Coffee Break

10:30-12:30: 8 short talks + questions (Alternating between HZAU and UA
speakers)

12:30-2: Lunch

2-3:30 Breakout/Planning Discussions

3:30-5: Breakout /Planning Discussions

5-6:30: Rest

6:30-10pm: Dinner/Discussions

 

Friday, January 13th

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

 

Participation in the Symposium is a great opportunity to establish important
international research and training collaborations in the areas of applied,
functional and evolutionary biology of crop plants, and related taxa. The
symposium is structured to have 16 short talks in the morning equally
divided between HZAU and UA faculty. Two Breakout/Planning sessions have
been created in order to match UA faculty with HZAU faculty with common
interested to begin to formulate plans for collaborative research and
scientific exchange. A list of the HZAU faculty members that will be
attending is provided below.

Please contact Carole Turner (carole at ag.arizona.edu) or me if you are
interesting in participating in this symposium. Faculty, Staff, Postdocs and
Graduate Students are all welcome.

Regards,

Rod

Rod A. Wing

Antle Professor – School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology

Director – Arizona Genomics Institute

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ 85721

Voice: 5206269595           

Internet: www.genome.arizona.edu; www.omap.org 

 




 

Tentative Participants to UA-HZAU Meeting from HZAU


 

Name

Title

Tentative Presentation Title or Research Interest

Institute


1.     

Qifa Zhang

Prof.

Interest in rice genomics and genetic improvement

 

 

 

National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement 

Huazhong Agricultural University

Wuhan 430070, China


2.     

Shiping Wang

Prof.

Focused on rice disease resistance including bacterial blight resistance and
blast resistance


3.     

Changyin Wu

Dr. 

Presentation Title: Identification of fertility genes required for
microgametogenesis in rice


4.     

Jianbing Yan

Dr. 

Presentation Title:The genetic architecture of vitamin E biosynthesis in
maize grain


5.     

Jihong Liu 

Dr. 

Presentation Title: A MAPK gene from Poncirus trifoliata confers dehydration
and drought tolerance by modulating the antioxidant systems


6.     

Jinling Meng

Dr.

Presentation Title: Genome reorganization in Brassica napus


7.     

Kehui Cui 

Dr. 

Identification and interaction analysis of QTL for phosphorus use efficiency
in rice under the field conditions


8.     

Lili Tu

Dr.

Focus on cotton fiber cell elongation and second cell wall synthesis


9.     

Lizhong Xiong 

Prof.

With broad interest in abiotic stress in plants, my research is currently
focused on molecular basis and genetic improvement of drought resistance in
rice.


10.  

Longfu Zhu

Dr. 

Focused on Cotton disease resistance


11.  

Qiang Xu

Dr. 

Focused on citrus red-flesh trait and its molecular basis


12.  

Wenwu Guo 

Dr. 

Focus on citrus tissue culture, protoplast manipulation, genetic
transformation; citrus seedless breeding via biotechnological approaches


13.  

Xianlong Zhang

Dr. 

Presentation Title: Expression profile analysis discovers several functional
genes involved in fiber cell initiation and elongation in cotton


14.  

Yongzhong Xing

Dr. 

Functional identification of genes encoding CCT domain in rice


15.  

Yuqing He 

Dr 

Focus on gene pyramiding to improve green super rice by molecular
marker-assisted selection


16.  

Zhibiao Ye 

Prof. 

Focused on tomato fruit ripening and genetic regulation, and nutritional
metabolites of fruit quality such as enhancing ascorbate acid


17.  

Zhongxu Lin

Dr. 

Focus on polymorphism of monomorphic SSRs by SSCP in Cotton

 

 

 

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