Title: Molecular regulation of abscission and senescence

Speaker：Prof. Cai-Zhong Jiang

Time：15:00-17:00，July 11 (Monday), 2016

Venue：Room 207, College of Horticulture, South Campus

Introduction:
Dr. Jiang received a BS degree in Agronomy from the Guangxi Agricultural College in China.  He received a MS degree and Ph.D. in Crop Sciences at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Japan. After graduation Dr. Jiang joined the Departments of Botany and Agronomy, Iowa State University in Ames as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate where he conducted studies of regulation of photosynthesis.  He then moved to UC Davis, Plant Biology where he examined DNA repair and mutagenesis in Arabidopsis.  In 1997 Dr. Jiang took a job as a Senior Scientist with Mendel Biotechnology, Inc. in California where he worked to characterize the function of plant transcription factor genes as the basis for creating novel products for agriculture. He joined the USDA-ARS staff in January 2006 as a Research Plant Physiologist. He is now an Adjunct Professor in Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis. He is an Associate Editor for the Horticulture Research. He has published more than 50 articles in the peer-reviewed Journals, including Science, PNAS, Plant Physiology, Plant Journal, Genetics, Plant Molecular Biology and Journal of Experimental Botany. 

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