I. Title:Insights into Oil Biosynthesis in Nonseed Tissues
Speaker: Aruna Kilaru
Time:8.30 a.m. Sunday, January 8th, 2017
Venue:431, Lecture Hall, College of Landscape Architecture, NEFU
About the Speaker
Aruna Kilaru is a professor of the Department of Biological Science of East Tennessee State University, who earned her Ph.D. from the University of Louisiana. Between 2005 and 2009, she has conducted her postdoctoral research at the University of North Texas. From 2011 until now, she has been an assistant professor and associate professor at East Tennessee State University. She has presided over multiple projects of the National Science Foundation of the United States and worked with her team at the research on the Molecular and Biochemical Regulatory Mechanism of Stress Signaling of Lipid Mediators and on the Molecular Regulatory Mechanism of Plant Lipid Synthesis. She has published over 20 articles on leading international journals such as Plant Cell, PNAS, Plant Journal, Plant Physiology, Frontiers in Plant Science, BMC Plant Biology and PLOS One.
II. Title:Roles of Fatty Acid Ethanolamides in Plants
Speaker:Min Liu, Stanford University
Time:9.30 a.m. Sunday, January 8th, 2017
Venue:431, Lecture Hall, College of Landscape Architecture, NEFU
About the Speaker
Min Liu, female, Ph.D., is a researcher at the School of Medicine of Stanford University and a member of the American Society of Plant Physiologists, the American Society for Microbiology and the American Society for Space Biology. She graduated from the Department of Biology of Qufu Normal University in 1992 and earned her master’s degree of plant physiology at the Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 1997 to 1999, she worked as an assistant and lecturer at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Peking University Health Science Center. Then she won the scholarship for a Ph.D. program in biology of the Graduate School of the University of Louisiana and went to the United States for further study. She earned her Ph.D. in biology in 2004, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher and researcher successively at the Department of Pharmacology of the University of California, Davis and the Department of Medicine of the Stanford School of Medicine, dedicated herself to the research on microorganism mycology and animal development. During the years she spent in the United States, she has taken a dominant role in a wide range of projects of the National Science Foundation of the United States and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and published a number of articles on SCI journals. During her work and study at Stanford and the University of Louisiana, Doctor Min Liu has been engaged in the research on plant cell signaling. She is scheduled to deliver an academic report on the study of new plant lipid signaling molecules.
III. Title:The Mechanism of the Effect of Spliceosome-associated Protein, FgSAD1 on Fusarium Graminearum
Speaker:Qiaojun Jin
Time:10.30 a.m. Sunday, January 8th, 2017
Venue:431, Lecture Hall, College of Landscape Architecture, NEFU
About to the Speaker
Qiaojun Jin is an associate professor of the College of Plant Protection of Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, who earned his Ph.D. from the University of Louisiana in 2008. From 2008 to 2009, he worked as an associate researcher at the Seed Repository of Kunming Institute of Botany. Between 2009 and 2011, he has conducted his postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany. From September, 2011 until now, he has been an associate professor at the Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University and dedicated himself to the research on the regulatory mechanism of pre-RNA splicing in the filamentous fungus and on the interaction between plant pathogenic fungi and plants, publishing over 14 articles on international journals including PLoS Genetics, Scientific Reports, BMC Genetics, Frontiers in Plant Science, BMC Genetics and PLOS One.
