Program

Plant Genomics in China XI

 

August 19-21, 2010, Changchun

 

Arriving and Registration: From 10:00, August 18, 2010

 

Scientific Program

August 19, 2010

8:30-9:00       Opening ceremony

Chair: Dongyun Hao

Remarks from Qifa Zhang (Chair, the PGC committee, VP of Genetics Society of China)

Remarks from a governmental official of Jilin province

Remarks from the president of Jilin Academy of Agricultural Sciences

 

9:00-9:40       Photo taking and tea break

 

9:40-15:35     Session I: Functional Genomics

Chair: Weihua Wu

9:40-10:10   Plenary 1  Peter Quail, Phytochrome photosensory signaling and transcriptional networks

10:10-10:40  Plenary 2  Liwen Jiang, Organelle dynamics and proteomic study in plant cells

10:40-11:40   Major Talks (20 min each)

10:40-11:00  Zhizhong Gong, Transcriptional gene silencing independent on siRNA-directed DNA methylation in Arabidopsis: Characterization of ros1 suppressors and identification of more ROS genes

11:00-11:20  Lizhong Xiong, Identification of two drought- sensitive mutants reveals two critical genes for drought resistance in rice

11:20-11:40  Jiming Jiang, DNA methylation associated with plant centromeres

Student Talks (15min each)

11:40-11:55  Jia Wang, A global analysis of QTLs for expression variations in rice shoot at early seedling stage

 

12:00-14:00  Lunch break

 

Chair: Guangcun He

14:00-15:20  Major Talks (20 min each)

14:00-14:20  Bao Liu, Tissue-specific difference in cytosine methylation and its association with differential gene expression in Sorghum bicolar

14:20-14:40  Weihua Tang, Gene expression profiling of pollen mother cells in rice

14:40-15:00  Shengyi Liu, PDF1: a novel PCD inhibitor plays a crucial role in plant growth and development

15:00-15:20  Mingying Liu, Establishment of an effective platform for plant stress tolerance relation genes cloning

Student Talks (15 min each)

15:20-15:35  Wenhao Yan, Ghd8, a major QTL, acts as a key regulator of adaptability and grain yield potential in rice

 

15:35-15:55  Tea Break

 

15:55-17:35  Session II: Transgenic Plants

Chair: Qixin Sun

15:55-16:25   Plenary 3  Xiaoya Chen, Engineering gossypol biosynthesis and insect resistance

16:25-16:55  Plenary 4  Ping Wu, Molecular regulators of phosphate homeostasis and efficiency in rice

16:55-17:35   Major Talks (20 min each)

16:55-17:15  Yongjun Lin, The development of insect-resistant transgenic rice

17:15-17:35  Zaiquan Cheng, Studies on the construction of “introgression lines” of Oryza officinalis wall through transformation of large fragments of chromosomes

 

18:00-19:30  Welcome reception (invited)

20:00-21:00  PGC committee meeting

 

August 20, 2010

8:30-11:30     Session III: Sequence and New Technology

Chair: Kang Chong

8:30-9:00         Plenary 5  Ian Bankraft, Sequence-led genomics in Brassica

9:00-10:00      Major Talks (20 min each)

9:00-9:20    Sanwen Huang, Genome sequence accelerates genetic and biological research of cucumber

9:20-9:40    Jun Zhu, New methods for QTL mapping and gene searching

9:40-10:00   Ming Chen, Characterization of plant small RNAs based on high-throughput sequencing

Student Talks (15min each)

10:00-10:15  Shuhui Song, HRGD: a database for mining potential heterosis-related genes in plants

 

10:15-10:35   Tea Break

 

Chair: Xingzhi Wang

10:35-11:15   Major Talks (20 min each)

10:35-10:55  Zhukuan Cheng, Homologous chromosome synapsis and recombination in rice

10:55-11:15  Yingshan Dong, Sequencing and comparative analysis of Soybean mitochondrial genomes between the cytoplasmic male sterility line and its maintainer

 

Student Talks (15min each)

11:15-11:30  Jianfeng Ren, An emerging draft sequence of the tomato genome---- Chromosome 3 sequencing in China

 

12:00-14:00   Lunch break

 

14:00-15:20   Poster session

 

15:20-15:40  Tea break

 

15:40-17:25   Session IV: Molecular Marker Assisted Breeding

Chair: Daoxiu Zhou

15:40-16:10    Plenary 6  Zhikang Li, Epigenetic and genetic control of       drought tolerance in rice – A merging story of Larmarkism and Mendelism

16:10-17:10   Major Talks (20 min each)

16:10-16:30  Jinling Meng, Exploring intersubgenomic heterosis in rapeseed production

16:30-16:50  Haodong Chen, Development and application of rice whole genome single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) detection platforms

16:50-17:10  Dongyun Hao, 2-Dimentional affinity electrophoresis revealed novel enzyme assemblies associated with starch biosynthesis in developing maize endosperm

Student Talks (15min each)

17:10-17:25  Yongfu Qiu, Development and characterization of japonica pyramiding lines carrying brown planthopper resistance genes Bph17 and Bph6

 

18:00-19:00  Dinner

19:00-20:30  Culture activity

 

August 21, 2010

8:30-12:00     Session V: Genomic Diversity

Chair: Jizeng Jia

8:30-9:00      Plenary 7  Rod Wing, TBA

9:00-9:30   Plenary 8  Bin Han, Large-scale genome sequencing based genotyping and genome-wide association studies in rice

9:30-10:10   Major Talks (20 min each)

9:30-9:50   Jinsheng Lai, Genomic diversity among elite maize inbred lines and its breeding implication

9:50-10:10  Mingsheng Chen, Comparative sequence analysis of the

Oryza genomes

Student Talks (15min each)

10:10-10:25  Dongfang Cai, Association mapping of seed oil content in Brassica napus

 

10:25-10:45  Tea Break

 

Chair: Zhengqiang Ma

10:45-11:45   Major Talks (20 min each)

10:45-11:05  Meizhong Luo, Creation and utilization of BAC/BIBAC resources of cereals

11:05-11:25  Zhiyong Liu, Resistance gene analogies (RGA) amplification in wheat genome revealed by comparative genomics and sequencing analyses

11:25-11:45  Xianmin Diao, An EMS induced mutant of Yugu 1 can be used as tester for identification resistant genes in foxtaili millet, Setaria italica (L.) Beauv

Student Talks (15min each)

11:45-12:00  Sha Luo, Contrasting evolutionary patterns of the Rp1 resistance gene family in different species of Poaceae

 

12:00-14:00  Lunch break

 

14:00-16:15  Session VI: Proteomics, Metabolomics and Bioinformatics

Chair: Yaoguang Liu

14:00-14:30  Plenary 9  Katayoon Dehesh, Fatty acid-mediated transcriptional regulation of stress signaling pathway in plants

14:30-15:00  Plenary 10 Yuxian Zhu, Comparative proteomics reveals important biochemical pathways during cotton fiber elongation

15:00-16:00   Major Talks (20 min each)

15:00-15:20  Baichen Wang, Analysis of the posttranslational modifications of maize pyruvate orthophosphate dikinase (PPDK)

15:20-15:40  Liping Wei, Trans-natural antisense transcripts including non-coding RNAs in ten species: Implications for expression regulation

Student Talks (15min each)

15:40-15:55  Chengjun Zhang, A dynamic programming procedure for searching optimal models to estimate substitution rates based on the maximum likelihood method

 

15:55               Closing ceremony

Chair: Dongyun Hao

Presentation of the awards for the best posters and the best student talks

Closing Remarks: Qifa Zhang

Messages from the local organizers of PGC XII