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19th & 20th March, 2015

Malaysia: Second Plant Genomics Congress to take place in Kuala Lumpur

Since the Plant Genomics Congress was first launched, 1,500 people have attended this meeting on three continents. These meetings have been praised both for the quality of the scientific content of the presentations and for the fantastic opportunity to network with leading plant scientists from academia and industry.
 
See how the Plant Genomics: Asia 2015 agenda lives up to these exacting high standards here at www.globalengage.co.uk/plantgenomicsasia.html
 
- Day 1 Stream 1 - NGS / Omic Technologies for Plant Research
- Day 1 Stream 2 - Plant Genomic Case Studies
- Day 2 Stream 1 - Bioinformatics, Data Analysis & Management
- Day 2 Stream 1 – A) Plant Genomic Case Studies & B) Biofuel Research Case Studies

Learn more about the Plant Genomics Congress by watching the video of the 2014 congress below:


Confirmed Speakers
  • Qing-Yao Shu, Professor, Institute of Crop Science (Department of Agronomy), Deputy Executive Director, Bioseed R&D Centre, Zhejiang University, China
  • Dan Voytas, Professor, Director of the Center for Genome Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA
  • John Manners, Chief, CSIRO Plant Industry, Australia
  • Yasunari Ogihara, Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University, Japan
  • Odd Arne Olsen, Professor, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences Norwegian University of Life Science, Norway
  • Suk Singh, Wheat Portfolio Lead, CIMMYT - International Maize and Wheat Improvement, Mexico
  • Hiroyoshi Iwata, Associate Professor, Biometry and Bioinformatics Lab, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Suk-Ha Lee, Department of Plant Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, South Korea
  • Henry Nguyen, Director, National Center for Soybean Biotechnology, University of Missouri, USA
  • I-Chun Pan, Assistant Professor, Department of Horticulture, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
  • Inez Hortense Slamet-Loedin, IRRI - International Rice Research Institute, Philippines
  • Paul Quick, Principal Scientist and Head of C4 Rice Project, IRRI - International Rice Research Institute, Philippines
  • James Birchler, Curators' Professor Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, USA
  • James Petrie, Research Scientist, Head, Metabolic Engineering Group, CSIRO, Australia
  • Harikrishna Kulaveerasingam, Senior Vice President II, R&D, Sime Darby Technology Centre, Malaysia
  • Ajjamada Kushalappa, Associate Professor, Plant Science Department, McGill University, Canada
  • Gen Hua Yue, Senior Principal investigator, Molecular Population Genetics Group, Strategic Research Program Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore
  • Hai-Chun Jing, Professor, Institute of Botany, Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  • Bronwyn Barkla, Associate Professor, Southern Cross Plant Science, Southern Cross University, Australia
  • Jie Luo, Professor, National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, China
  • Olga Pontes, Principal Investigator, Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, China
  • Mike Jones, Professor of Agricultural Biotechnology, Director, WA State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, Murdoch University, Australia
  • Jacqueline Batley, Associate Professor, ARC QEII Research Fellow - School of Agriculture & Food Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Queensland, Australia
  • Dong-Yup Lee, Assistant Professor & Principal Investigator, Systems Biology and Bioinformatics Group, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Ryohei Terauchi, Adjunct Professor, Iwate Biotechnology Research Centre, Japan
  • Andrea Harper, Research Associate, University of York, UK
  • Susan Wilson, Professor, Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australia
  • Dave Edwards, Principal Research Fellow, School of Agriculture & Food Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia
  • Ji-Young Lee, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Science, Seoul National University, South Korea
  • Jennifer Ann Harikrishna, Director, Centre for Research in Biotechnology for Agriculture, Professor, University of Malaya, Institute of Biological Sciences, Malaysia
  • Qifa Zhang, Professor and Director, National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, China
  • Steve Swain, Research Director, Breakthrough Genetic Breeding Technologies, CSIRO Agriculture Flagship, Australia
 
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