Title: Research progress on accumulation mechanism of seed oil
Speaker: Professor Lixi Jiang
Time: 15:00-17:00, November 26, 2016
Venue: Lecture Hall 216, College of Agronomy Building，South Campus of NWAFU

Introduction of speaker:
Professor Lixi Jiang earned his B.Sci in Zhejiang University (ZJU) in 1986, M.Sci and Ph.D. in University Goettingen in 1998 and 2001. He had worked as postdoc and research fellow in Institute of Molecular Agrobiology and Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore during 2001-2003, and 2003-2005, respectively. Currently, he acts as the acting director of Dept. of Gene Resource and Molecular Breeding, the 985-Institue of Agrobiology and Environmental Sciences, Zhejiang University. 

His research interests focus on (a) Molecular mechanism of lipid formation and floral development of Brassica oilseed Crops and model plant Arabidopsis; (b) Improvement of crop agronomic and qualitative traits by genetic engineering.He takes the chair of eight national projects, including 863 Project, 973 Project, Ministry of Agriculture Transgenic and National Natural Science Project. He is the editor of Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Journal of Integrative Agriculture, Editor of Research on Crop. Up to now, he has published more than 40 SCI papers in the top journals such as Plant Cell, Plant Cell and Environment, Plant Journal, Plant Physiology, Theoretical and Applied Genetics.

College of Agronomy 
November 23th, 2016