Topic 1.Title：What about "The genes of western civilisation" ?

Speaker: Professor Klaus Mayer

Time: 15:30-16:30, October 17, 2016

Venue: Meeting Room 104, International Communication Centre, South Campus of NWAFU

Introduction of speaker:

Dr. Klaus Mayer is the group leader of the Plant Genome and Systems biology (PGSB) unit at the Helmholtz Center Munich. He is involved and coordinates a range of bioinformatic analysis packages in national and international research consortia (SynBreed, GABI-BARLEX/Tritex, EU FP6 and FP7 projects and international initiatives on grass genome sequencing). His group has exhaustive and long-term experience in the analysis of plant genomes and the analysis of resequencing data and has been highly influential in pushing the analytical limits of modern plant genomics research (IBSC, 2012, Brenchley et al., 2012, IWGSC, 2014).The main focus of the Research Unit for Plant Genome and Systems Biology (PGSB) is plant genome and systems-oriented bioinformatics. It has a focus towards analyzing genomic encryption, expression patterns, functional and systems biology of plants. PGSB also maintains a large data set of plant genomes in databases, which it makes available to the public along with comparative analyses. H-index 43, 165 publications, 13000 citations.

Topic 2.Title：New reference sequences provide insights into triticeae genome organsation and structure

Speaker: Dr Manuel Spannagl 

Time: 16:30-17:30, October 17, 2016

Venue: Meeting Room 104, International Communication Centre, South Campus of NWAFU

Introduction of speaker:

Dr. Manuel Spannagl is a postdoctoral research assistant of the Plant Genome and Systems biology (PGSB) unit at the Helmholtz Center Munich. His work mainly focus on comparative genomics of higher plants and his papers were published on Nature, Science and Nucleic Acid Research.

State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas
College of Plant Protection
October 17th, 2016