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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>On Behalf of Dr. Rod Wing:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Plant Science Faculty, Staff, Students and Postdocs,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Below </span>is an updated schedule for the upcoming Bilateral Shennong Center Symposium to be held all day on the January 12<sup>th</sup> and the morning of the 13<sup>th</sup>. 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 (<a href="mailto:Carole@ag.arizona.edu">Carole@ag.arizona.edu</a>) 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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rod<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Thursday, January 12, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>8:00-8:05 - Rod A. Wing, Welcome Address<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>8:05-8:20: Xianlong Zhang, P<a name="OLE_LINK4">rof</a>essor & Vice President of Huazhong Agricultural University. Title: Expression profile analysis discovers several functional genes involved in fiber cell initiation and elongation in cotton<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>8:20-8:35: Mike Barker, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona. Title: Genomics of Hybridization and Polyploidy in Plants<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>8:35-8:50: Changyin Wu, Professor, Huazhong Agricultural University. Title: Identification of fertility genes required for microgametogenesis in rice<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>8:50-9:05: Chieri Kubota, Professor, School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona. Title: </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Controlled Environment Agriculture as a Research Platform Bridging Fundamental and Applied Plant Sciences</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>9:05-9:20: Jianbing Yan, Professor, Huazhong Agricultural University. Title: The genetic architecture of vitamin E biosynthesis in maize grain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>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<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>9:35-9:50: Zhibiao Ye, Professor, Huazhong Agricultural University. <a name="OLE_LINK9">Title: Focused on</a> tomato fruit ripening and genetic regulation, and nutritional metabolites of fruit quality such as enhancing ascorbate acid<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>9:50-10:05: Eric Lyons, Assistant Professor, School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona. Title: <b>TBA</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>10:05-10:30: Coffee/Tea Break<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>10:30-10:45: Lizhong Xiong, Professor, Huazhong Agricultural University. Title: Molecular basis and genetic improvement of drought resistance in rice<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>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<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>11:00-11:15: Meizhong Luo, Professor, Huazhong Agricultural University. Title: Creation and utilization of crop genome resources<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>11:15-11:30: Mark Beilstein, Assistant Professor, School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona. Title: <b>TBA</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>11:30-11:45: Jinling Meng, Professor, Huazhong Agricultural University. Title: Genome reorganization in <a name="OLE_LINK3"><i>Brassica napus</i></a><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>11:45-12:00: Rebecca Mosher, Assistant Professor, School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona. Title: <b>TBA</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>12:00-12:15: Yongshong Xing, Professor, Huazhong Agricultural University. Title: Functional identification of genes encoding CCT domain in rice<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>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 <i>Oryza</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>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<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>12:40-2:30 Lunch<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>2:30-3:50 Breakout Session I<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>4:00-5:30 Breakout Session II<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>5:30-7:00 Rest<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>7:00-10:00 Dinner (HZAU and UA Faculty)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Friday, January 13<sup>th</sup>, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>8:30-9:30: Breakout/Planning Discussions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>9:30-11: Wrap up/Future Directions/Farewell<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>11am: Transfer to airport<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>12:50-1:10 Southwest flight 1396 to San Diego<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>