Agronomy Webinar | Quantitative Genetics in Plant Breeding
Welcome from the Chair
2nd Agronomy Webinar
Quantitative Genetics in Plant Breeding
We're looking forward to your participation in the webinar entitled “Quantitative genetics in plant breeding”. I would like to thank the MDPI journal and the editorial office for organizing and hosting this webinar.
We are very pleased and honored to have Distinguished Professor Shizhong Xu to give the first lecture today. Professor Xu is a well-known leading scientist in quantitative genetics and has made significant contribution to the field. Methodologies developed by Xu Lab have been widely applied to various areas, including plant breeding and agricultural sciences. He published about 170 journal articles and two textbooks (Statistical Genomics 2012 and Quantitative Genetics 2022). Today, Professor Xu will talk about “Big Data, Model Complexity and Machine Learning”. Next, I will give a presentation entitled “Inference of chromosome-scale haplotypes using genomic data of single gametes”.
We are also very pleased and honored to have Professor Yuan-Ming Zhang to give the last lecture. Professor Zhang is a famous professor of quantitative genetics and is well known for the development of advanced GWAS models for identifying various genetic effect and their interaction with environment. Professor Zhang has published about 160 journal articles. Today, Professor Zhang will talk about a comprehensive solution for detecting small and over-dominant genes using extreme phenotype individuals in F2.
Date: 13 December 2022
Time: 3:00 pm CET | 9:00 am EST | 10:00pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 884 6047 6198
Webinar Secretariat: agronomy.webinar@mdpi.com
Chair
Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California Riverside, The United States of America
Zhenyu Jia received his BS degree in Biochemistry from Wuhan University (China), MS degree in Statistics and PhD in Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics from University of California Riverside (USA). He started his research and teaching career in 2013 with a joint faculty appointment at University of Akron and Northeast Ohio Medical University (USA). He moves to University of California Riverside as Assistant Professor in 2016. He is now Associate Professor of Genetics at UC Riverside and teaches Statistical Genomics (BPSC234). He published more than 80 technical journal articles.
Invited Speakers
Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California Riverside, The United States of America
Shizhong Xu received his BS degree in animal sciences from Shenyang Agricultural College (China), MS degree in Genetics from Northeast Agricultural College (China) and PhD in Genetics from Purdue University (USA). He started his research and teaching career in 1995 at University of California Riverside as assistant professor, associate professor, and professor. He is now a distinguished professor of genetics. He teaches quantitative genetics (BPSC148) and statistics for life sciences (STAT231B). He published about 170 technical journal articles and two textbooks (Statistical Genomics 2012 and Quantitative Genetics 2022)
College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, China
Yuan-Ming Zhang received his BS degree in Agronomy from Southwest Agricultural University (China) in 1986, and MS degree (1992) and Ph D (2001) in Crop Genetics and Breeding from Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU). He started his teaching career in 1986 at Sichuan College of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine (China) as lecturer and Associate Professor. He moved to NAU in 1999, as Professor in 2002, and Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU) in 2014. He is now Professor of Statistical Genomics at HZAU and teaches Quantitative Genetics and Biostatistics. He published approximately 160 articles and three textbooks (Biostatistics 1998, 2015 and 2017).
Webinar Content
Program
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Speaker/Presentation |
Time in CET |
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Chair Professor Zhenyu Jia Chair Introduction |
3:00 - 3:10 pm |
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Professor Shizhong Xu Big Data, Model Complexity and Machine Learning |
3:10 – 3:40 pm |
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Professor Zhenyu Jia Inference of Chromosome-Scale Haplotypes Using Genomic Data of Single Gametes |
3:40 - 4:10 pm |
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Professor Yuan-ming Zhang Dqtg-Seq: A Comprehensive Solution for Detecting Small and Over-Dominant Genes Using Extreme Phenotype Individuals in F2 |
4:10 - 4:40 pm |
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Q&A |
4:40 - 5:00 pm |
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Closing of Webinar Chair Professor Zhenyu Jia |
5:00 - 5:05 pm |
Relevant SI
Guest Editors: Dr. Yuan-Ming Zhang, Dr. Zhenyu Jia,Dr. Shang-Qian Xie, Dr. Jia Wen & Dr. Shi-Bo Wang
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2022
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