现代生物学系列讲座（4月12日）--Mini-Symposium

Day/ Date: Friday/ April 12, 2013
Location: Lecture Hall of SIPPE (300 Feng Lin Road)
Host PI: Prof. Jian-Kang Zhu

1.Title: New Opportunity for Plant Biotechnology in China
Speaker: Nanfei Xu, Ph. D., Group Leader, Bayer Crop Science, Research Triangle Park
Time: 9:00 am

2.Title: Functional genomics of Legume seed development
Speaker: Jerome Verdier, Ph. D., Research Scientist/ Independent Investigator, The Roberts Samuels Noble Foundation, Plant Biology Division
Time: 9:45 am

3.Title: The Power of Epigenetic Regulation: from Trash to Treasure
Speaker: Xuehua Zhong, Ph. D., Postdoctoral, Department of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology, UCLA
Time: 1:00 pm

4.Title: Systemic Acquired Resistance: Turning Local Infection into Global Defense
Speaker: Zhengqing Fu, Ph. D., Research Associate, Biology Department, Duke University
Time: 1:55 pm

5.Title: Moving beyond translation, new TOR functions in plant growth and defense signaling
Speaker: Yan Xiong, Ph. D., Research Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Time: 2:50 pm