Report（1): Nitrogen use efficiency - trying to match supply and demand
Speaker:Dr. Anthony John Miller
Time:08:30, 10 November,2016
Report（2）:Overexpression of a pH-sensitive nitrate transporter in rice increases crop yields
Speaker: Professor Xiaorong Fan
Time:09:30, 10 November,2016
Venue: 307meeting room, College of Natural Resources and Environment
Introduction of Speaker:
Dr. Anthony John Miller is a senior scientist at the John Innes Centre, the United Kingdom.Dr. Tony Miller received his bachelor’s and PhD’s degrees from the University of Liverpool in 1979 and the University of East Anglia in 1982. He spent six years as a post-doc at the University of Reading and the University of York. He had worked as a research group leader from 1988 to 1993 and as a Principal Investigator from 1993 to 2010 at the Rothamsted Research. Then he worked at the John Innes Centre as a senior scientist from 2011. The Miller Lab addresses fundamental questions in plant nutrition with a specialist interest in membrane transporters. Nitrogen nutrition is a particular focus of the group’s research and the structure and function of membrane transporters for nitrate, ammonium and amino acids is being studied. Some of these transporters play a key role in sensing nitrogen availability in the soil. He has publishes more than 100 research articles with over 5000 citations.
Dr. Xiaorong Fan is a professor of Nanjing Agricultural University. Dr. Xiaorong Fan received her bachelor’s, master’s and PhD’s degrees from Nanjing Agricultural University in 1999,2002 and 2005, respectively. She has worked at Nanjing Agricultural University from 2005. In 2006 and 2012, she had spent two years as a post-doc at the Rothamsted Research and the John Innes Centre. Her research topics are about mechanisms of nitrogen efficiency in rice and elucidating the molecular mechanisms of nitratetransport systems in paddy rice and have discovered new genes that can be used to increase significantly nitrogen use efficiency and yield. She has published more than 20 research articles in the refereed journals such as PNAS and Annals Reviews.
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