报告地点：中国科学院武汉植物园二号会议室

报告时间：2016年9月9日9：00 --12：00(本周五)

报告一

报告题目：Manipulating cuticular wax composition and structure to optimise carbon fixation and oil yield in Brassica oilseed crops

报告人：Frederic Beaudoin

报告人简介：

Frederic Beaudoin is the senior scientist and project Leader at Rothamsted Research. He was recently appointed as a special associate professor of Plant biotechnology at the University of Nottingham. Dr. Beaudoin is a specialist in plant lipid metabolism and biotechnology. He has experience in metabolic engineering of plants (oilseeds), yeast and microalgae including fifteen years investigating the biosynthesis of very long chain fatty acids and their role in growth and development. Over the past ten years the main research projects of Beaudoin’s lab have involved manipulating plant lipid composition to enhance human nutrition, as well as for sustainable production of fuel, lubricants, and chemicals feedstock’s. More recently His lab also started using high throughput lipidomic profiling and association genetic methods to identify the genetic components controlling quantitative variation of traits representing biorefining opportunities in the oilseed crop B. napus (e.g. cuticular waxes from straw, seed phytosterols).”

报告二

报告题目：Unusual Fatty Acid Metabolism: Learning from the Less Common

报告人：Edgar Cahoon

报告人简介：

Dr. Edgar Cahoon is the George Holmes University Professor of Biochemistry and Director of the Center for Plant Science Innovation at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA). He received his BS in biochemistry from Virginia Tech, MS in plant physiology from Cornell University, and PhD in plant biochemistry and molecular biology from Michigan State University. Dr. Cahoon was a senior scientist at DuPont Crop Genetics in Wilmington, Delaware and later served as a principal investigator with the USDA-ARS and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in Saint Louis, Missouri.  He joined the faculty at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2008. He was appointed a Changjiang Scholar Professor at Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, China in 2015. Dr. Cahoon is a specialist in plant lipid and isoprenoid metabolism in plants. His lab conducts basic and applied research in fatty acid biosynthesis and enzymatic modification of fatty acid structures. His lab also conducts research in plant biotechnology, including metabolic engineering of seed oils for biofuel, industrial, and nutritional applications, and investigates plant sphingolipid metabolism and function. He is the author of 100 publications and inventor or co-inventor on 30 issued US patents in plant biotechnology.

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