Topic：Genetics of Heterosis and Plant Breeding Methods
Speaker： Dr. Jianming Yu
Time: 3:00-6:00 pm  July 14th 2016 (Thursday) 
Venue： Meeting Room 203, College of Agronomy

Speaker Profile :
Jianming Yu is associate professor and Pioneer Distinguished Chair in Maize Breeding in the Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University. He obtained his M.S. from Kansas State University in 2000, and Ph.D. from University of Minnesota in 2003. The focus of Yu’s program is to address significant questions in plant breeding by combining cutting-edge genomic technologies and quantitative genetics theories. Recent research in his program includes systematic dissection of heterosis, genotype-by-environment interaction and epistasis, genome-wide prediction and validation, genome-wide landscape of genetic polymorphisms underlying quantitative trait variation, and parallel domestication in cereals. He is also working with engineers to integrate high throughput phenotyping methods into genomic selection process. He is the recipient of the Young Crop Scientist Award from Crop Science Society of America in 2010. Dr. Yu is the lead organizer of the workshop, Genomic Selection and Genome-Wide Association Studies (GS+GWAS), at the annual Plant and Animal Genomes Conference, San Diego, California. He teaches a graduate course, Advanced Plant Breeding. Dr. Yu is a member of Raymond F. Baker Center for Plant Breeding and a Plant Science Institute Faculty Scholar at Iowa State University.
    

College of Agronomy(Academy of Agricultural Sciences)
July 14th 2016